[ZF] Finances and services

[Aroldo Souza-Leite]

Hi Jens,

is grok.zope.org also at Hetzner?

Regards,

Aroldo.


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> Datum: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:58:46 +0100
> Von: Jens Vagelpohl <jens at dataflake.org>
> An: Zope Foundation <foundation at zope.org>
> Betreff: Re: [ZF] Finances and services

> Hi Jim,
> 
> > The latest board minutes have "The treasurer filed his report via
> > email to the board list before the meeting."  As a non-board-member, I
> > find this to be pretty opaque.  I've scanned through a year and a half
> > of minutes and all I can find is a mention in last January's minutes
> > that Gary reported that we had $62,657.35.
> > 
> > Can we get more detailed and regular reporting?
> > 
> > As a member, I'd like to know on a regular basis:
> > 
> > - how much money we have,
> > 
> > - how much we're taking in, and
> > 
> > - What we're spending money on.
> 
> I'll leave the "regular basis" to the next board/treasurer, here's some
> information that I've gathered right now:
> 
> There's $60,605.44 in our bank account. 
> 
> Income is from sponsor member dues only, of which we had 6 last year and 3
> of those renewed this year so far. Sponsors pay $399 annually. The current
> un-expired sponsor memberships are listed at
> http://foundation.zope.org/members/sponsorship_members
> 
> We're spending money on the following:
> 
> - hosting (2 physical servers at Hetzner, about $180/month)
> - Rackspace (the WinBot/WinBuilder stuff, about $33/month)
> - QuickBooks Online for accounting (about $23/month)
> - a hosted SugarCRM instance for managing membership data (IIRC $119
> annually)
> 
> … and several smaller items for the Delaware Secretary of State having
> to do with the company registration as well as other (probably
> accounting-related) items that I'm not 100% sure on. The treasurer knows more about
> them.
> 
> 
> > Also, I'd like to get a better idea of what services the foundation is
> > providing. Services I know of:
> > 
> > - mail.zope.org
> > 
> > - www.zope.org
> > 
> > - foundation.zope.org
> > 
> > - download.zope.org (defunct?)
> > 
> > - docs.zope.org
> > 
> > - winbot/winbuilder?
> > 
> > Are there others?
> 
> The services include (no guarantee for completeness):
> 
> Third-party vendors:
> - DNS management for zope.org, zopefoundation.org, zope.info, zodb.org at
> zoneedit.com
> - Git repository management on github.com
> - winbot.zope.org WinBot/winbuilder on Rackspace
> - site and service monitoring through my own Nagios installation
> 
> On Zope Corporation hardware:
> - cvs.zope.org
> - svn.zope.org
> 
> On the two hosted servers at Hetzner:
> - mail.zope.org/lists.zope.org for mail and mailing lists
> - git.zope.org as read-only mirror for GitHub repos
> - old.zope.org as static remnants of the old zope.org portal
> - wiki.zope.org
> - zope2.zope.org
> - www.zope.org
> - apidoc.zope.org
> - bluebream.zope.org
> - docs.zope.org as documentation collection point for Sphinx-based docs
> - download.zope.org
> - foundation.zope.org/www.zopefoundation.org
> - www.zodb.org
> 
> Not all these sites are maintained by the ZF itself, but by members who
> have requested to have them set up/hosted. That means some may be defunct or
> no longer needed. We're just providing the space to run them and do basic
> service monitoring.
> 
> I hope that'll give you at least a rough idea what's happening right now.
> 
> jens
> 
> 
> 
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