We should do some meet up this weekend to discuss about the accounting and funding campaign, I'll try to collect rest of the data before it.

Thanks for preparing these reports. We can meet this weekend. Propose a time.

Yes we need a meetup. also cleanup old campaign website is also needed

We need a meeting to discuss the following,

• Campaign targets; amount and time.

• Campaign strategies; how and where.

• Account handling and distribution for fsci services.

• Requirement for an organization for account handling.

Please append missed subjects as comments

Meeting minutes

Campaign strategies; how and where.

• The total fund collected will be to fill the existing negative balance and two year service expenses.

• There will be option to fund individual services or FSCI as whole.

• The fund collected for FSCI will be split and shared to individual services or for un attended renewals for domains. A formula for splitting has to be derived.

• The priority will be to get funding for next year and recover already negative amount.

• Domains funding will be seperate from general funding campaign.

• Unless there are no other platforms available, there will be a seperate funding web page for contributor to enter transaction ID and to where their fund goes.

• The possibility of using Open collective with the support of navodaya as host for collecting fund has to be explored.

• Following platforms can be used for campaigns

  • Advertising on our services

  • Peertube videos

  • Other free software groups

  • Asking people perosnally

  • Colleges and schools

• What to do with services that aren't funded enough has to be discussed.

Campaign targets; amount and time.

The campaign will run all through the year, where it restarts on next year

Targets for individual services (All amounts are in Rupees)

poddery.com

Negative balance: 28962

Average yearly expense (rounded off): 30000

Two year expenses (+ contingency + inflation): 75000

Total: 103962

lists.fsci.in

Negative balance: -

Average yearly expense (rounded off): 4000

Two year expenses (+ contingency + inflation): 9500

Total: -

codema.in

Negative balance: -

Average yearly expense (rounded off): 4000

Two year expenses (+ contingency + inflation): 9500

Total: -

video.fsci.in

Negative balance: -

Average yearly expense (rounded off): 5500

Two year expenses (+ contingency + inflation): 12500

Total: -

meet.fsci.in

Negative balance: -

Average yearly expense (rounded off): 5500

Two year expenses (+ contingency + inflation): 12500

Total: -

FSCI

Total: -

Account handling and distribution for FSCI services.

• The possibility for working with Navodaya will have to be communicated.

• Till then personal account(s) can be used.

• Kannan and Snehal volunteered to handle funding

Requirement for an organization for account handling.

• This can be filled by coordinating with Navodaya

Domains management

• Manu is handling 9 domains

• 7 .in domains (Rs. 640) and 2 .org.in domains (Rs. 460)

Todo

• Praveen will communicate with Navodaya team

• Migration and maintenance

  • 2 vps handles backup should be migrated to a new instance

  • codema.in migration to Hetzner

  • poddery.com audit and scaledown if necessary

  • monitor.fsci.in migration to meet.fsci.in server

  • saakhi loomio instance disposal

• Update current funding status on website

• Look at possibility for scaleway open source credits - https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/open-source-program/

• Setup funding website for fsci

Meeting minutes of 16/01/2022 

Agenda - Discuss resource usages and scaling down for services. 

attendees - Bady, Kannan, Pirate Praveen, Ravi, sahilister

Pointers

• Resources users for all the services discussed.

• Scale down meet.fsci.in to CPX21 from earlier CPX31. @sahilister to install jitsi.

• Merge codema.in into meet.fsci.in after scaledown. @Pirate Bady to do it. 

• Migrate camp websites to meet.fsci.in server

• @Kannan V M to contact scaleway opensource program

• @Kannan V M and @Pirate Bady to talk to Kiran for scaledown

• Moniter to be disposed.

Not sure this is the right place to report this, but: I was looking around and saw that https://wiki.fsci.org.in is someone's personal site. That doesn't look right.

With so much negative balance and its continued increase, I won't be able to keep paying. I think I will stop paying if we don't see a significant change in negative balance in coming four months. So unless more people donate or new persons step in to pay, we will have to shut down poddery completely.