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The future of aussie.zone... (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by lodion@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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First up.. this is not a call for donations.

Without going into the personal details as to why: I don't have the energy to give this place the attention it needs, and I'm no longer willing to cover the majority of running costs.

I don't have a fully fledged solution to this, and don't have the energy to come up with one. The best I can come up with is I hand the reins over to Nath, and some sort of community funding is set up to cover costs.

If anyone knows of above board methods to establish a crowd funded piggy bank for something like this, I'm all ears.

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[-] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

@shlee@aus.social has been experimenting with a funding union, we could hook into that as the primary funding source. I'm not sure how developed it is.

Shlee seems to have some experience with community funding, the link below is from a week ago at the GenerOZity raffle at PAXAUS 26.

My GenerOZity Charity x PAXAus 26 outro. We raised for numerous charities over the weekend…. With $64k ish for Beyond Blue.

Posters Union is the funding organisation shlee has been setting up to help cover server costs.

We could talk more to shlee about the concept and join in, or use the example as inspiration.

[-] blind3rdeye@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. Shlee is a bit of an expert on fundraising for community projects. He has taken on the funding and maintenance of a few smaller mastodon servers after their original admins were no longer able; and he is the chief fundraising guy for pixelfed, the fediverse alternative to instagram. I'm on aus.social, and I've donated to the Posters Union a couple of times. (Although I think it might be renaming to Posters Guild, due to some minor legal pushback when registering it as an official charity or something.) And as you (Gorgritch) point out, he is a real-life person who also does various charity fundraising in the physical world amongst real people outside of the internet.

So yeah, probably it would be worth contacting him for ideas and suggestions.

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