If you want it done Fast and Good, it will not be done Cheap.
If you want it done Fast and Cheap, it will not be done Good.
If you want it done Good and Cheap, it will not be done Fast.
Disroot has an annual report which includes financials. https://disroot.org/en/annual_reports/AnnualReport2024.pdf
In 2024, we received a total of € 31,743.94
from an average of 201 Disrooters each
month. After spending € 23,827.24, VAT
return of € 2301,00 and Interest on
savings of € 263,36 we were able to add
€ 7,252.80 to our general funds.
Our costs in 2024 went towards
infrastructure - € 4078.61
payment fees - € 915.92
office and team supplies - € 313.71
volunteers fees and wages - € 20,820.00
and our donation to FLOSS projects - € 927,00volunteers fees and wages
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In the Netherlands, volunteers can be paid up to €5.60 per hour and up to €2100 per year (tax-free).
If they’re being paid then they’re not volunteers…
They are considered volunteers in the Netherlands as long as the compensation is way below market rates. I don’t understand why you think this is a problem.
Some of those services are pretty easy to set up, some might be more complicated. You’d have to look around for open source projects for those services and see if you can find ones you like. It will take more time to get it initially set up than to maintain, but expect to fix something that breaks every once in a while.
As for cost, probably like a few hundred to a thousand USD can get a reasonable computer for this. You don’t need a GPU, but want a decent CPU, plenty of RAM, and a LOT of storage. Look for companies auctioning off old servers.
Loosely I’d say expect this project to be a whole hobby.
Looks like most of their services are also foss. Says their cloud service is powered by nextcloud, and pad is powered by Etherpad, upload by Lufi, etc. So, OP could probably just self-host most of these really easily. Hardest one would probably be email. That’s a whole 'nother beast for most. Especially since most residential IPs are blacklisted. You almoat always need to cloud-host that.
My cloud-hosting knowledge is a bit dated, bit I bet there are webhosting places that do the email bit for you, you juat pay the monthly fee to use their auto-gen instance of mailcow or whatever.
I mean, Email is twofold. Like running the server and getting inbound email: just as easy as all the other services.
Outbound? That shit can be difficult, near impossible on residential. But as outbound mail is kinda “lost” anyway in a privacy sense, I would not feel too bad about using a relay.
