+1 and tally up previous amounts spent (over 24 years) - so eventually that can be paid down.
On Fri, 13 May 2022 at 10:58, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library@lists.haxx.se> wrote: > > Hello team, > > I've decided I want to try a new thing: I want to invoice the project fund at > Open Collective for curl.se server hosting and management. > > We have a fair amount of sponsors now. Our funds exceed 100K USD at the > moment. > > Our biggest expenses used to be the Bug Bounty, but recently that > responsibility has now been shouldered very elegantly by the Internet Bug > Bounty. They have their own army of sponsors. > > At the same time, I have spent my own personal money to pay for the curl > server and I've spent my own (spare) time on its maintanence now for over > twenty years. I figure maybe it doesn't have to continue to be this way. > > My plan is to charge the curl fund maybe 1,000 USD per month (on a yearly > basis), to cover for my expenses and work on server "stuff". The amount is > pretty arbitrarily picked out of the air and is meant to be reasonable and > cover the actual hosting fee as well as some amount of my server admin work. > > I hope nobody feels offended by me doing this. > > More money > > We have more funds to do more good things for the project with. The main > obstacles that prevent us from using the money are: 1) ideas of what to do and > 2) people to actually drive the ideas in (1) to happen. > > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > | Commercial curl support up to 24x7 is available! > | Private help, bug fixes, support, ports, new features > | https://curl.se/support.html > -- > Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
