[Grants] New Zealand Open Source Society Grant Request

[Steven Ellis]

Sorry about the delays - I'm trying to get the actual costs out of the
treasurer.

Steven

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:43 AM Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe at just42.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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