[Adminsysters] Funds, maintenance, peertube

[Donna Metzlar]

All sounds very good, super :)!

On 08/06/2021 18:42, mara wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> With the hibernation of systerserver in mind, and the unfortunate event
> of not having an /etc any time soon, am writing to propose some
> resources, and inform of the server's current state.
> 
> Our few (semi-)public tools, gitlab, nextcloud, mailman3, need upgrade
> and maintance, and the server needs a backup system. Among other stuff,
> such as nfra costs, re-purposing the old systerserver, expanding the
> systerserver.net landing page with content and styling.
> 
> Together with ooooo, angeliki and artemis we have looked into some
> funding possibilities, that involve around sysadmin work and organizing
> online workshops.
> 
> At the moment, we were rejected by Lush
> (https://nl.lush.com/tag/charity-pot), where we applied for two frontend
> styling workshops, one for systerserver.net and one for anarchaserver.org.
> 
> Feminist Hack Meetings (FHM) have applied as a partner with Varia (NL),
> Constant (BL), Lurk (FR/NL/PT), Esc and HYPHA (RO) for an EU fund to
> organize events around decentralized platforms in each country. FHM
> budget for activity will contribute to systerserver costs. We expect
> results end of this month.
> 
> Me and ooooo, we are now preparing an application for a Belgian fund
> (https://afairnewidea.be/en/waarom), that could provide a yearly small
> income for admin work, so admins from this list, who would like to
> contribute in systerserver they can also benefit from a small wage. The
> persons shall rotate on a schedule, but this is a later discussion. In
> this application, we would like to add a peertube installation to
> accommodate feminist and artivist content as an experimental platform
> for short-term residencies or per request hosting.
> 
> I started looking into peertube requirements before writing here, to
> check if it would be possible for adele to host such a thing, so here is
> a FAQ:
> https://joinpeertube.org/en_US/faq#should-i-have-a-big-server-to-run-peertube.
> We'd also need to ask mur.at for the uplink bandwidth. Interesting
> aspect, is that peertube instances can be federated and use each other
> for caching and mirroring.
> 
> Please let us know your feedback, objections and any comments you would
> like to share on the summarized following points:
> - fund for sysadmin work and covering costs of systerserver for a year.
> - peertube installation, maintenance.
> - offer peertube for specific feminist projects for specific periods of
> time.
> 
> Hope you all doing well, and apologies for the long and dense email.
> 
> warm greetings
> Mara
> 
> 
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