Working for a school district myself, I have been kicking around the idea of running a node or something similar on one of my servers that has spare processing power available. My biggest issue is I am not sure how the intermediate school district that handles our Internet would appreciate the extra traffic. Additionally, since Hive is a "censorship" free blockchain, we could get into some hot water over the content on the chain being stored on our servers. All of that being said, I am a little surprised with the growing number of blockchain groups at the University level, there aren't more higher education institutions running nodes. Maybe they just need to be approached about it. I know in the past universities and colleges have been more than happy to share open source FTP repositories on their servers for the public to access. You can still find many Linux distros available for download on collegiate servers across the country.
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I almost did a similar thing to what you suggested in 2017-2018. I worked for the university's "student" IT department... Had access to the servers and hundreds (maybe thousands?) of computers. I was talking with some supervisors, who were on board with the idea, and we found out that the university had a clause in it that stated that outside university nodes were not allowed to be ran and any crypto mined/money made was subject to university confiscation and possible expulsion/firing of the individual(s) mining the crypto/making money.
I know a school district is going to be different than how a university would approach. I would absolutely get approval prior to going through with it. I'd also imagine you would be able to secure the stored-information which could help constrain their issues with the stored content.
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That is very interesting. I will have go dig through our policies to see if we have anything in place. I manage all of it and do most of the policy stuff, but we do have some boiler plate items at the district level that might apply here and I should probably be aware of.
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LOL I am not sure that using the school district's equipment for a hive node is the best idea and going to be looked at favorably. I would believe they do not want personal stuff running on their servers.
I am not sure most universities want anything that is censorship resistant. They talk about free speech but are the first to shut it down.
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Maybe UC Berkeley? They have always been a little crazy there :) I run the tech department so quite honestly, no one would really ever know unless we got flagged for the traffic or the content. As far as resources go, I have the hardware to spare. As I think about it more, it is probably something I will not do, but I'd love to be able to one day. It would be cool to have a more active role in the blockchain.
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