[OpenSpending] Independently keeping the lights on: Ideas?

[Jan Gondol]

Hello, what are the HW requirements for hosting? (Amount of data stored,
current number of nodes + estimated RAM needed on each node, monthly
bandwidth, peak traffic, CPU,...)
Jan

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Tryggvi Björgvinsson <
tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> (Sorry for cross-posting)
>
> As I mentioned in my previous email OpenSpending does not have a revenue
> source to pay for the hosting costs (and Open Knowledge has been very kind
> to help us out on that front).
>
> We have been looking into getting sponsored hosting for OpenSpending
> because the server cost is the biggest cost of the project. Irrespective of
> sponsored hosting or not, I think OpenSpending could benefit from not being
> "broke" so I wanted to start a discussion with you (the community) to see
> if you have any ideas for how we can get some sort of money into the
> project.
>
> The last thing I would want to do is charge users for hosting data on
> OpenSpending. I just think it feels weird to charge people who want to help
> increase government transparency. Another thing I'd like to avoid is
> removing functionality of the OpenSpending platform just because they can
> be expensive to do.
>
> But we do need to somehow connect money coming in with money going out (as
> more datasets are created the costs of storing/processing them goes up) so
> ideas where increasing costs are covered by some sort of increasing revenue
> are preferable but at this moment, anything is better than nothing, so all
> ideas are welcomed :-)
>
> I'm just thinking about brainstorming now. We can look into how viable the
> ideas are later.
>
> Do you have any ideas?
>
> /Tryggvi
>
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