Consensus
Mon 30 Sep 2024 2:41AM

establishing a long term way to finance Website League costs

AB Alyaza Birze Public Seen by 23

as of now, according to @walking mirage, Website League costs currently work out to about $40/mo.

Current expenses are:

$10.72/year - websiteleague.org domain

€11.99/month - Hetzner VPS (web server, loomio, GTS instance)

$9/month - Buttondown newsletter

$10/month - SMTP2GO email sending

Things which will become costs if I split them out of my personal infra, or if we elect to begin using them as our needs grow:

$19/year - Migadu email

$4/user/month - Bitwarden organization for passwords/secret

for the time being, we'll be leaning on ko-fi to cover these funds. about 3 months are financed so this will not be an immediate issue

https://ko-fi.com/atomicthumbs

however: beyond the immediate term this is not really a viable/good way to keep the League's central infrastructure going. after we launch, we should decide what we want to use to facilitate money coming and going and look into getting League accounts set up for this stuff. OpenCollective is an obvious platform (and the one we use for Beehaw). something like Comradery might also be an option for this initiative, depending on the rules. whatever the case, this should be one of the first things we work out post-launch.

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Shel Mon 30 Sep 2024 4:49PM

Perhaps we could use Comradery? https://www.comradery.co

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sirocyl Mon 30 Sep 2024 9:59PM

@Shel This is the one linked by one of the cohost founders in a retrospective blog? Looks interesting, might be worth working with. (It was mentioned, but not linked in the OP above)

MJL

muffin j. lord Tue 1 Oct 2024 3:26AM

@Shel Very interesting and closer to what I had in mind than some bog-standard Patreon that's likely to get frozen for no good reason. I have a more ideal form in mind(essentially, an automated treasurer service, where it would only withdraw the amount actually needed for website services from the pool of donations each month), but I doubt very highly that anyone's actually built that product.