On March 4, 2018 9:27 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@obsidian-studios.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 21:33:17 +0100 > Vincent Torri vincent.to...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello > > > > The « Enlighenment.fr » association aims to help all the actions > > which are involved in the development and diffusion of « > > Enlightenment » and the software libraries « EFL », as well as all the > > FOSS using or linked in a way or another with these two components. > > Nice first step. What is that association a non profit?
Yes, there is no for profit association as far as I know in France :-) > > The donations have already been useful to help some people who > > want to participate to events like fosdem, EDD, ... (travel, hostel, > > buying tshirts or goodies to sell on the stands, etc...). It has also > > been used for spair part and buying our server infrastructure. > > Maybe look to do some fund raising. I was working on such > with Gentoo long ago. I looked at FreeBSD a lot as they were ahead of > where Gentoo was at say in 2008. It amazes me what all FreeBSD has done > with their foundation. Raising 1.25 Million > > https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ > > Grants for travel, funding development, etc. > > https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Budget2016.pdf I don't think we are talking about the same size of organization here :-) Our current cost is a few thousands dollars per decade as our main cost has been renewing our server when they get to old. > > We have been using a physical bank account which come at a > > continuous cost. This has been draining our account with little > > benefit over the year. Today with cryptocurrency, you have that > > problem solved (Sure, you get up and down, but you shouldn't > > get ultimately down to zero). For this reason, we have started > > moving to enable cryptocurrency payment to support the project. > > FYI I helped Gentoo get a bank account long ago. You want to go with > Capital One Spark Business. 100% free and has one of the best interest > rates of any bank including local credit union, 1% for savings. > CapitalOne was able to meet Gentoo's requirements of no one being able > to walk into a bank to open an account. International Trustees of the > Foundation, and of couse free!!!! > > https://www.capitalone.com/small-business-bank/ > > I also use that for my business! I see no benefit in banking and even less in American banking. With european banks, you can allow direct money transfer easily with SEPA. In the USA, this is not possible. As the main use case are : keeping a stash of money that doesn't disappear completely over time, ability to get money from all over the world and to send it all over the world too. None of this will be helped by having a capitalone account I think. Cryptocurrency do solve that with the cons of having some swing on the value, and add the benefit of transparency as anyone can watch the wallet. > > Last week a few of our hard drive in our main server have died. It > > would be to be expected that more will in the near future. So this > > is a good time to remind people in the community that this > > infrastructure require us to have some spair money to maintain it > > and if you can make a small donation, it will definitively be put to > > good use. > > I would recommend a sponsor who provides like Cloud type resources. So > the project is not bothered with hardware issues, or such expenses. I > am not sure there is any need for actual physical hardware. Then > project needs administrators, etc. In lieu of sponsor cloud could also > pay for it directly just the same. > > It is also a good time to thanks OSU Open Source Lab and > > Fondation Free.fr for their help over the years in hosting our > > infrastructure : https://osuosl.org/ and > > https://www.fondation-free.fr/. > > Nice thing about them, you do not really have to worry about them > deciding not to host or sponsor. That can be an issue at times, it > happened with others in the past with sponsored hosting providers. They have been helping us for over a decade now. They are on two differents continent and have been super helpful. I don't see any urgency/logical reason of moving out. Cedric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
