Ongoing costs and donation campaign at same time as 21.02 release?

[Rich Brown]

I strongly agree with this plan. My thinking:

a) I am delighted that some private individuals have stepped up to pay for the infrastructure. But there's no need for this: OpenWrt should pick up this expense. 

b) It would be helpful to know what funds are available through SFC, now that they can handle contributions on our behalf.

c) Based on those numbers, we can design a plan for soliciting sufficient contributions to make us, at a minimum, self-funding.

Rich

> On May 22, 2021, at 6:09 AM, Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As discussed already in the past, several parts of the infra are paid for
> privately by project members.  This can be a burden and I think the
> project would be better off if it could support itself financially.
> 
> As a first step, we should have a clear view of the ongoing costs.  I just
> updated this page, can everybody check if something is missing or if costs
> are wrong?
> 
> https://openwrt.org/infrastructure#hosting_infrastructure_and_costs
> 
> I separated "expected cost" = "what we would pay on the market price" from
> "actual cost" = "what we actually pay" which is sometimes 0.
> 
> 
> As a next step, we can check if the project would be sustainable at the
> current rate of donations if everything was paid for using SFC-held funds.
> 
> 
> If not, I would like to start a donation campaign at the same time as the
> 21.02 release.  Since it's time-consuming, we should aim for a large goal
> (e.g. fund the next 5 years of operations, anticipating growth).
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Baptiste
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