View source for Save Poddery Campaign

Wiki page for the Save Poddery Campaign

A well known name in the Diaspora world, poddery.com is facing a challenge. It is about to be closed down and fosscommunity is planning to continue the service. For that we are planning a campaign for collecting funds for buying a server and hosting the website there.

The campaign in hosted at indiegogo.com which can be found here -  [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-diaspora-pod-at-poddery-com|Save Poddery]

==Objectives of the campaign==
# Raise funds for buying a VPS and hosting the site there
# Popularise diaspora ideology

==Funds needed (For 1 year)==
1. '''Server'''
:*Server at linode.com - $868.20 (Approx Rs. 50, 000)
:**2 GB RAM, 96GB Storage and 8TB of bandwidth.
(Have to enquire prices & feasibility of other providers, including aws)
(If its linode, just transfering is enough).
:*Server at linode.com for backup - 65$ (Approx Rs. 3600)
:**100 GB storage, 64 MB of RAM, 200 GB monthly storage
:**Used only for storing backup
http://ipxcore.com/storage-vps/<br>
'''Total''' - $933 (Approx Rs. 53600)<br>
'''Misc costs''' - $60<br>
'''Total round off - $1000 (Approx - Rs. 54280)'''<br>
2. '''T Shirt costs''' - $400 approx<br>
3. '''Poddery expense''' - 9% or 4% of the total. Depending upon whether we arceived target or not.

==Goodies==
#1$ - Name on "Donator" list of the website
#5$ - Name and Link to website/blog on "Donator" list of the website
#50$ - T shirt with poddery.com logo
#200$ - A banner containing a logo and link to website/blog on the homepage of the website

==To Do==

=== Promo Video ===

Ashok Fabiano (http://500px.com/AshokFabiano) has agreed to help us with shooting the video. 

- Anish will be meeting him on Tuesday to discuss the plans. 

- Script http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/vuPIQLtoo5

=== Privacy Policy ===

- Praveen is working with Mishi Choudhary of Software Freedom Law Center

=== T Shirts ===

- Anish, Pavithran and Shravan to work out a plan

==Members of the campaign==

#Anish A (Co-Ordinator)
#Balasankar Chelamattath (Publicity Co-ordinator)
#Akhil Krishnan S (Publicity Co-ordinator)
#Nandaja Varma (Publicity Co-ordinator)
#Dhananjay Balan
#Hrishikesh K B
#Jishnu Mohan (Video Editing)
#Praveen Arimbrathodiyil (Privacy Policy/Legal Stategy)
#Joe B (Techinical Consultant/Previous Podmin)
#pavithran s (Operations)
#Praseetha KR (Creative Consultant)
#Haris Ibrahim K. V. (Editor)