BCN Incubator Policy

BCN Incubator Policy--

3-16-95 draft--to be reviewed by BCN Management Team

Regarding Information Providers, the Boulder Community Network is primarily dedicated to the development of Web presence for organizations, club and non-profits who otherwise aren't being served by existing commercial servers. Please refer to BCN Policy for a more complete discussion.

BCN's intent is to foster growth by adding value to its services. We invite information aggregators to work with BCN in bringing collections of information to the BCN community. The purpose of this policy statement is to clarify BCN's position regarding the incubation of new projects that may include commercial aspects.

BCN's working definition of an incubator and requirements for involvement are:

Limited space on BCN's server for the purpose of proving the existence of a market for a service not currently being offered in the Boulder County area.
Preference will be given to services that provide benefit to the community rather than to a particular business niche. Examples of preferred services include the aggregation of information in the following areas:
Medical, dental or chiropratic communities (including referral information, services rendered, location, and alternative medicine)
Comprehensive collection of trial maps and related hiking and climbing activities
Compilation of local artists and their works
An integrated and County-wide cultural events calendar
A "sunset" date will be negotiated with perspective contributors indicating the amount of time required for making the project operational.
Sunset time limits can range from several weeks to no longer than 6 months.
Anyone pursuing a project must bring all technical expertise required for starting the project and continuing maintenance. This includes, but is not limited to, html experience.
A project proposal must be submitted to BCN Management that provides a detailed description of how the group or person plans to carry out the project.
BCN Management reserves the right to deny the project.
Disk space will be offered to the project manager based on need.
Project manager must locate a commercial server for the collection by the sunset date originally negotiated with the management team. If the information is determined by BCN Management to be strictly of a not-for-profit type, it may remain on the BCN server.