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 - Poddery

Objectives of the campaign

1. Raise funds for buying a VPS and hosting the site there
2. 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/
Total - $933 (Approx Rs. 53600)
Misc costs - $60
Total round off - $1000 (Approx - Rs. 54280)
2. T Shirt costs - $400 approx
3. Poddery expense - 9% or 4% of the total. Depending upon whether we arceived target or not.

Goodies

1. 1$ - Name on "Donator" list of the website
2. 5$ - Name and Link to website/blog on "Donator" list of the website
3. 50$ - T shirt with poddery.com logo
4. 200$ - A banner containing a logo and link to website/blog on the homepage of the website

Members of the campaign

1. Anish A (Co-Ordinator)
2. Balasankar Chelamattath (Publicity Co-ordinator)
3. Akhil Krishnan S (Publicity Co-ordinator)
4. Nandaja Varma (Publicity Co-ordinator)
5. Dhananjay Balan
6. Hrishikesh K B
7. Jishnu Mohan (Video Editing)
8. Praveen Arimbrathodiyil (Privacy Policy/Legal Stategy)
9. Joe B (Techinical Consultant/Previous Podmin)
10. pavithran s (Operations)
11. Praseetha KR (Creative Consultant)
12. Haris Ibrahim K. V. (Editor)