crowd funding time (again)

We are pretty low on server load now, possibly because of recent issues with federation. I think we should open up registrations now as we have a better pitch for crowd funding. I also have sysstat installed for monitoring system load.

This time we should create a fund for podmins who spend more than 2 hours (suggest different criteria).

Hope someone keep an eye on the observium to monitor load when new users join.

We are very low on processor load. If the trend continues, we could reduce the cores and get some more time to run the server.

@manukrishnantv high load was the reason we closed new registrations, so now we are in a good condition, we can open up and get more people use our pod. We could temporarily reduce cores, but we should be prepared to keep at least this much spec and ideally ready to grow bit more as effort to maintain a pod is more or less same. But yes, we should not grow huge like joindiaspora and become unmanageable. Also we can open up xmpp conferences as well on poddery.

Registration opened. We still got to fix podupti.me

We should start weekly scheduled meeting to build the campaign. It is good time to bring more people to the team.

@jishnu can you help us with the video this time around too? @abhijtihb can you join the video team?

@fayadfami Can you summarize the points of yesterday's discussions? You had the paper.

Minutes of fossmeet '16 is here.

We are working on a campaign video to show poddery team speaking about the history, progress, achievements and challenges ahead. @praveenarimbrathod and myself we have started working on it; recorded a small part of it.

Idea is to get each one of us in poddery team to share their thoughts on the following questions. Use your webcam or digicam to record this and share in a single location. We can edit and bring it up as a single video of 5 to 10 minutes.

1. Little about what Poddery is and its past. A brief history of events.

2. Events since last funding. What poddery has achieved (better hosting, more users, better location etc).

3. Challenges poddery is facing (continue hosting with current features, rise of active users).

4. Why we think you should help.

I would suggest the team to send their videos within next 2 days. Remember not to exceed 5 minutes. Just to make it as simple and elegant as possible.

I would suggest recording a user perspective too - @arjun can you speak about how Diaspora has influenced you ?

I can but won't be able to send the video.
Connection is horrible here