[Adminsysters] Seeking consultancy for digital infrastructure maintenance

Fri Apr 11 14:44:53 CEST 2025

Hi Raviva,

Small correction, the suggested time will be 1300 yours.

Hope it will work out.

Mara

On 11 April 2025 14:14:08 CEST, mara <mara at multiplace.org> wrote:
>Dear Ravina
>
>Me and Donna can hop on a call at 1900 CEST (1100 your local time). Would that work for you?
>Let us know where we can meet.
>
>Best 
>Mara
>
>On 10 April 2025 22:20:48 CEST, Raviva Hanser <RHanser at astraeafoundation.org> wrote:
>>Dear Donna,
>>
>>I'm so glad that you're interested in the consultancy!
>>
>>I'd be happy to hop on a call. Not sure your timezone, but I actually have a lot of flexibility tomorrow (Fri. 4/11) if you want to share a couple options that work for you. I am also available on Mon. 4/14 12 - 15:00 UTC or 19 - 20:00 UTC. If neither of those dates work, please share what is best for you. For reference, I'm based in New York (EDT or UTC-4).
>>
>>And yes, the servers are running on Linux 🙂
>>
>>Looking forward to connecting soon.
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>Raviva
>>
>>Raviva Hanser (she/her) | Senior Strategist
>>rhanser at astraeafoundation.org<mailto:execassist at astraeafoundation.org>
>>Timezone: Eastern Time/UTC-4
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>>Cc: Christian Giraldo <cgiraldo at astraeafoundation.org>
>>Subject: Re: Seeking consultancy for digital infrastructure maintenance
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>>Dear Raviva,
>>
>>Thank you for considering us! We are interested in supporting the
>>services in question and have been discussing it the past week. Would it
>>be possible to have a video call? This would make it easier for us to
>>make a written application.
>>
>>Quick question, are the servers running Linux? If not would you be open
>>to migrating to Linux?
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Donna
>>
>>On 10/04/2025 17:53, Raviva Hanser wrote:
>>> Hi Syster Server team,
>>>
>>> I hope you're taking care. I'm following up on my previous message below
>>> regarding a potential consultancy.
>>>
>>> Your group came highly recommended by our friends at APC <https://
>>> www.apc.org/en><http://www.apc.org/en>>. We are prioritizing applications that come in this
>>> week, but are happy to extend the timeline if this might be a good fit
>>> based on your experience.
>>>
>>> Feel free to reach out if I can share more specifics or clarify anything.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Raviva
>>>
>>> *Raviva Hanser (she/her) | Senior Strategist*
>>> _rhanser at _astraeafoundation.org <mailto:execassist at astraeafoundation.org>
>>> *Timezone*: Eastern Time/UTC-4
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>>> <http://www.astraeafoundation.org/>
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>>> *From:* Raviva Hanser <RHanser at astraeafoundation.org>
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 27, 2025 3:40 PM
>>> *To:* info at systerserver.net <info at systerserver.net>
>>> *Cc:* Christian Giraldo <cgiraldo at astraeafoundation.org>
>>> *Subject:* Seeking consultancy for digital infrastructure maintenance
>>> Hi Syster Server Team,
>>>
>>> I hope this message finds you well.
>>>
>>> My name is Raviva Hanser and I'm the Senior Program Officer for Capacity
>>> Strengthening at the Astraea Foundation <http://astraeafoundation.org>.
>>> I was referred to your work and recommended to reach out by my
>>> colleagues at the Association for Progressive Communications (APC
>>> <http://apc.org>).
>>>
>>> We are currently seeking a service provider to maintain and service a
>>> digital infrastructure that was built and customized for Astraea’s
>>> activist gatherings. We currently run a series of services in a bare
>>> metal server hosted by Hetzner in Germany. Each individual service is
>>> hosted in a separate virtual machine using kvm virtualization. These
>>> services form the online infrastructure that supports organizing
>>> gatherings on- and offline. This digital infrastructure was developed,
>>> deployed and maintained by an organization which will no longer be
>>> performing these tasks.
>>>
>>> I'm attaching here a scope of work that gives more insight into what we
>>> have in mind. *Please let me know if this work is aligned with your
>>> experience and interest. Feel free to share with other folks in your
>>> network who you think might be a good fit, too.*
>>> *
>>> *
>>> _We're asking for one-page letters of interest with your expected rates
>>> to be shared with me by April 11th, 2025._ I'm also happy to answer any
>>> questions or provide more background information.
>>> _
>>> _
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Raviva
>>>
>>> *Raviva Hanser (she/her) | Senior Program Officer, Capacity Strengthening*
>>> _rhanser at _astraeafoundation.org <mailto:execassist at astraeafoundation.org>
>>> *Timezone*: Eastern Time/UTC-4
>>> Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice | www.astraeafoundation.org<http://www.astraeafoundation.org>
>>> <http://www.astraeafoundation.org/>
>>> Funding Change and Strengthening Communities Around the World
>>>
>>> *<https://www.instagram.com/astraeafndtn/> *<https://x.com/
>>> AstraeaUpdates> <https://www.facebook.com/AstraeaLFJ>
>>>    
>>> *Join our mailing list <https://astraeafoundation.org/join-us/mailing-
>>> list/>*
>>> *Donate <https://www.astraeafoundation.org/donate> **to support
>>> grassroots LGBTQI+ organizing*
>>> *
>>> *
>>> The information contained in this email including attachments is
>>> confidential and is intended only for the use of the individual or
>>> entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient,
>>> you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or
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>>> have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender
>>> by return email, and delete this email and all attachments from your
>>> computer. Thank you.
>>
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