[Koha] Help with funding the koha-community.org webserver (also short outage for Linode free upgrade!)

[Liz Rea]

Further to that, I do mostly keep the work on the website separate from
the work I do for Catalyst. That excepts the occasional urgent apt or
wordpress upgrade that has to happen during working hours, or urgent
help requests from members of the community in relation to working with
the website.

I'll try to figure out a way to make a nice "cost sheet" for the ko-fi,
I've added the most recent invoice from Linode so far. Sorry, I know
PayPal sucks but I like the model for ko-fi better than patreon or
direct transfers - much better for one-offs or little funding drives and
easy to keep transparent. Don't get me wrong, if you want to send a
direct transfer I'll try to facilitate your contribution as best I can. :)

That said, the server is paid for this year, and for next year (and a
little on top)! Well done team (thanks again so very much)! I'll hang on
to the money you've sent and spend it next year when I get the next invoice.

Also a hazard notice: Linode is upgrading your server ('cause hey, you
paid for it!) by migrating it to a new virtualhost with MOAR DISK and
MOAR RAM, they expect a ~20 minute downtime while they do this. That
will happen sometime today, don't panic (rather, let me do the panicking
for you).

Kia ora rawa atu,
Liz Rea

On 07/06/18 08:26, Chris Cormack wrote:
> Kia ora tātou
>
> Yay, so great to see how fast this was funded!
>
> Just a bit of background.
> After what happened in 2009 when we had a company in control of lots
> of our infrastructure, we decided to never let that happen again.
> Hence Liz running the www.koha-community.org site (rather than say
> Catalyst doing it).
>
> We shared out most of the sites, like git and bugs etc so that they are
> distributed and hard to capture :)
>
> A list is here
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Website_Administration
>
> (So just to allay peoples concerns, it was a conscious community
> decision to share the infrastructure around )
>
> Chris
>
> On 06/06/18 21:08, Liz Rea wrote:
>> Victory, everyone!
>>
>> Goal achieved and the website is golden for another year!
>>
>> Thank you all so much <3
>>
>> The Koha community is truly awesome.
>>
>> Now... To go freshen up that website :D
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Liz
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, 20:39 Narcis Garcia, <informatica at actiu.net> wrote:
>>
>>> It's time to propose a better alternative for sending money:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_payment_service_providers
>>>
>>>
>>> El 06/06/18 a les 07:54, Michael Kuhn ha escrit:
>>>> Hi Liz
>>>>
>>>>> I have set up a ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/lizrea and you can
>>>>> contribute there
>>>> Sorry, but I don't like Paypal and I don't want to set up an account
>>> there.
>>>> But as said I will contribute immediately if you send me the necessary
>>>> details (bank account etc).
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes: Michael
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