[OpenSpending] Independently keeping the lights on: Ideas?

[Tim Davies]

Would it be possible to break-down / hypothecate an estimate of the cost
per-dataset, or cost-per millions rows of spending information?

Information like that might be quite good for thinking about sourcing
sponsorship and donations. I.e. if someone donated $5 a month to Open
Spending, how much public spending data would they be effectively making
available.

If an organisation who *do *have funding attached to their own work plan to
publish data on Open Spending, what would be a fair amount for them to
choose to donate as a goodwill contribution to the project?

All the best

Tim

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Tryggvi Björgvinsson <
tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org> wrote:

>  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> 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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