FSCI Services accounting
As part of 2023 funding campaign, the financial records of FSCI services has been consolidated.
Currently data is available for poddery.com (including the monitor), lists.fsci.in, codema.in, meet.fsci.in and videos.fsci.in. The exchange rates are taken as an average for the year of the invoice and whenever possible average for the month the invoice is generated. services running on old codema and monitor server are migrated to other existing and servers and old servers were discarded.
Services
Poddery.com - fsci hetzner account, payment from Sruthi's account.
Lists.fsci.in - Abhijith (bhe)'s scaleway account, payment from his own account.
git.fosscommunity.in (now sponsored by Infomaniak) - fsci gandi account, payment partly from Praveen's account (apart from GitLab sponsorship).
Monitor.fsci.in (discontinued and websites migrated to new server sponsored by Manu)
Codema.in (service migrated to meet server)
Meet.fsci.in - Kiran's hetzner account
Videos.fsci.in - Kiran's hetzner account
Camp.fsci.in, privacyyathra.in websites - Server provided by Manu
Yearly report
All amounts are in rupee. git.fosscommunity.in is not tracked because its hosting is now sponsored by Infomaniak.
Balance after 2022
Funding Campaign 2022: 23050
Poddery: -51721.31
Codema: -9737.82
Meet: 19356.41
Videos: -4419.73
Lists: 4794.42
Total: -18678.03
2022 Income & Expense
Expense for 2022: 56976.95
Income for 2022: 48944.06
Deficit for 2022: 8032.89
Expected Costs for 2023
Poddery: 37000
Codema+Meet+Wiki: 8000
Videos: 9000
Lists: 6000
Total: 60000
Expected Costs for 2024
Poddery: 40000
Codema+Meet+Wiki: 9000
Videos: 11000
Lists: 7000
Total: 67000
Campaign Target
2023 Campaign Target: 145678.03
After rounding off: 150000
Conclusion
We are in a negative balance of -18678.03 ₹ in total. We need to set the campaign target considering the present negative balance and annual expense. For two years, the campaign target will be 150,000 ₹ (1842.64 $/1701.84 €).
Those who want to donate, please visit https://fsci.in/donate/
NB: The post will be updated with getting more data.
Karthik Wed 23 Mar 2022 2:43PM
Just for the info, the wiki still shows some one else site
Pirate Praveen Wed 23 Mar 2022 4:31PM
Because it is not fixed yet.
Pirate Praveen Wed 23 Mar 2022 1:31PM
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.
Karthik Wed 30 Mar 2022 10:54AM
> I think I will stop paying if we don't see a significant change in negative balance in coming four months.
Are there any specific dates for this? Like domain expiry, vps billing dates etc...
Pirate Praveen Wed 30 Mar 2022 8:09PM
Hetzner charges for VPS every month. I amd paying from my personal account for over a year already.
Pirate Praveen Wed 23 Mar 2022 1:34PM
I would prefer to keep diaspora running since it has many public and historic data, so a scaled down server will be better than a complete shut down, so I propose to shutdown matrix and xmpp and scale down it to a smaller vm (if we can get a static export of diaspora and setup a simple static archive, that will also suffice).
Karthik Tue 5 Apr 2022 1:57PM
FSCI's IRC channel can be advertised as a preferred way to communicate for all users. almost every chat provider supports irc bridges. So users can join the channel from their preferred chat client.
Life is Tetris Sun 1 May 2022 10:33AM
So this implies we don't really care about chat history? Or it is expected that it can be accessed out-of-band using IRC log services?
Karthik Fri 6 May 2022 9:38AM
See how #guix (libera chat) logs their public chats http://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/
I liked it. I anticipate similar in case of #fsci
Pirate Praveen · Thu 10 Mar 2022 7:09AM
We can discuss more about the wiki.fsci.org.in migration at https://codema.in/g/0HObsDec/free-software-community-of-india-fsci-fosscommunity-in-wiki-admins