The purpose or purposes for which the Corporation is to be formed and for which
it shall be operated exclusively are as follows:
(a) The overall public or quasi-public objective of the Corporation is to
provide the general public with a non-commercial electronic forum for
the exchange and discussion of ideas, dissemination of information and
facilitation of free speech and expression;
(b) To continue and improve the provision of Internet services to not-for-profit
and non-commercial entities and individuals on a user-supported,
non-commercial basis and thereby serve as a forum for free expression,
discussion and dissemination of information, including serving those
existing NetSpace Project ("legacy") users, sites and mailing lists relating
to contemporary music, culture and "grass roots" community service
groups;
(c) To continue and improve the work and services begun by the students of
Brown University in 1994 and maintained to the present as an
unincorporated student organization with Brown University support, and
to those ends to acquire, hold and use for the purposes of the corporation
all property belonging to the unincorporated student organization,
including all equipment, remaining funds on hand, software and/or
software licenses, internet domain registrations, trademarks, copyrights
and any other property whatsoever whether physical or intellectual which
is owned by the Brown University NetSpace Project student association;
(d) To do any other act or thing incidental to or connected with the foregoing
purposes or in advancement thereof, but not for the pecuniary profit or
financial gain of its members, directors or officers except as permitted under
Article 5 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.