On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:35 PM, ajkeane <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the current structure of SME/Contribs.org? > The current structure is quite complicated and setup to limit compromise exposure while still allowing collaboration and development to easily take place. > Who hosts SME/Contribs? > I do. I agree with Charlie that the infrastructure in place is probably overkill for what SME Server needs but I am the one setting it up and maintaining it. As long as I'm the one doing that I don't mind keeping the extra services running as it make maintaining it easier. It also make development easier in my mind as all I have to worry about is fixing code and then submitting it to the build system. > Who pays the bills or is everything currently running on donated equipment > etc? > All money currently is being gathered as donations. They are very minimal and don't come anywhere close to covering costs. As far as I know there are only two bills that are hard. They are the domain registrations and the dyndns registration. All other donations are used to help offset my costs of running the hardware that hosts contribs.org. See the statement above about it being overkill. If you were to move all the services I have setup to hosted VMs in the cloud at a place like rackspace.com the system would cost you close to $5k/month + bandwidth costs. Donations at their current (and historical) level bring in $200/month on a good month. I use these donations to help offset my electric and internet costs, nothing else. All the hardware and administration costs as well as the electricity and internet costs above what donations bring in are covered 100% by me. This is the way it has been since I took over hosting of contribs.org. > Who has the cheque book if there is one? > There isn't one. There is a paypal account that floats between $0 and $1-2k depending on how often I get in and transfer funds out. > Does SME/Contribs have any available funds? > Not really. > What structure do we need in place (lets apply the KISS principle to this) > so that we can support the developers to develop etc? > I think I've got the infrastructure part of this covered. I'm not sure what else we need. I'll leave that up to the community. -Shad
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