your los angeles neighborhood councils, proudly spending money in...

• downtown los angeles neighborhood council: hosted in las vegas, nevada
• hollywood neighborhood council: hosted in the bay area, california (i think)
• grass roots venice neighborhood council: hosted in santa monica, ca
• greater griffith park neighbrohood council: hosted in houston, texas
• hollywood hills west neighborhood council: hosted in henderson, nevada
• west hills neighborhood council: hosted in phoenix, arizona
• reseda neighborhood council: hosted in baltimore, maryland
• midtown north hollywood neighborhood council: hosted in san jose, california
• historic highland park neighborhood council: hosted in littleton, colorado
• arroyo seco neighborhood council: hosted in phoenix, arizona (maybe)
• east hollywood neighborhood council: hosted in vancouver, british columbia, canada
• central hollywood neighborhood council: hosted in dulles, virginia
• empowerment congress north area neighborhood development council: hosted in st. louis, missouri
• coastal san pedro neighborhood council: hosted in san pedro, california (on a residential cable line)
• mid city west community council: hosted in providence, utah
• neighborhood council of westchester-playa del rey: hosted in chicago, illinois
• northwest san pedro neighborhood council: hosted in dallas, texas
• pico neighborhood council: hosted in seattle, washington
• palms neighborhood council: hosted in baltimore, maryland
• porter ranch neighborhood council: hosted in fort lauderdale, california
• silver lake neighborhood council: hosted in henderson, nevada
• south robertson neighborhood council: hosted in providence, utah
• west van nuys/lake balboa neighborhood council: hosted in lansing, michigan
• westside neighborhood council: hosted in pasadena, california
• wilmington neighborhood council: hosted in kenosha, wisconsin
• mar vista community council: hosted on a dsl line, perhaps in mar vista, california
• la citywide alliance of neighborhood councils: hosted in spokane, washington

except for the two using what are probably residential connections, none of the neighborhood councils managed to find a host within the city of los angeles. (pasadena and santa monica are close, but not quite.)

the east hollywood neighborhood council wins some sort of prize for managing to host outside of the united states.

what i don’t get is why each of the neighborhood councils needs to fend for themselves on this. the city of los angeles appears to have its own datacenter, and surely it would make sense for them to just plop a machine in the rack to handle all of these. heck, it would be like a two-week job (four weekends?) to knock together a basic neighborhood council website toolkit with calendar, weblog, forums, etc.

(for the record again, this site is hosted in los angeles, in koreatown.)