[OpenSpending] Independently keeping the lights on: Ideas?

[Tryggvi Björgvinsson]

Hey Jan,

Thanks for the quick response.

I've updated the budget spreadsheet which Anders linked to in his email 
from June (which I quoted in my last email):
https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvdkMlz2NopEdHhpUExMQWVTcmJVVWl1VWlwX05QWXc&usp=drive_web#gid=0

I added a comment to the "Server costs" cell with what we're running now 
(or will be running on Tuesday).

/Tryggvi

On mið 24.sep 2014 10:26, Jan Gondol wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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