[Grants] New Zealand Open Source Society Grant Request

[Jonathan Woithe]

Hi Steven

Thanks for your follow up message.

On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 04:25:04PM +1200, Steven Ellis wrote:
> We've look at the current technology options being used by LA, and in part
> it comes down to local capability within the NZOSS team. I did raise the
> pathway LA was taking during our selection model and we've headed off down
> a different route.

That's fair enough.  I assume that by "the current technology options"
includes the new platforms which LA is in the process of preparing.

> We're currently focused on going live with our new environment
>  - Odoo - for membership management
>  - Stripe - for online payments
>  - Drupal as the NZOSS frontend
> 
> In addition we're provided a bunch of shared services for a number of NZ
> based community events and open source projects via our
>  - RocketChat
>  - GitLab
>  - NextCloud + CollabraOffice
> 
> The concern is being able to pay for this infrastructure as we're currently
> working of historical capital.

What exactly is the grant intended to fund?  Are you self-hosting these
services (except Stripe, obviously) on servers that the grant will pay for,
or is the intent to pay for commercially hosted instances of these services?

For each piece of infrastructure noted above, what are the costs involved
and how will the LA grant be divided up across these?  How long do you
expect the requested funds to last?  How do you plan to fill the funding
void in a sustainable manner after the LA grant funds are exhausted?

> A couple of key current goals are
>  - to make becoming a "paid" member easier
>  - allow better access to some core facilities like the GitLab and
> RocketChat environment.
>  - boost our advocacy program

Are these also connected with the grant application, or are they separate
activitities you are hoping to carry out over the coming months?  If the LA
grant is intended to assist with these, what are the costs associated with
these activities and how do you plan to action them?

Regards
  jonathan