Re: [IndyPt] Tornar membro do Ecobytes - apoiar alojamento

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Author: subcarvalho
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To: Gualter Barbas Baptista
CC: riosparaocarmo
Subject: Re: [IndyPt] Tornar membro do Ecobytes - apoiar alojamento
conversamos aqui no porto e parece-nos possível arranjar 60 euros por ano.
vou, portanto, inscrever o colectivo indy.pt.

sub!


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Gualter Barbas Baptista <
gualter@???> wrote:

> Caríssim@s,
>
> O Ecobytes formou-se recentemente como associação e procuramos construir
> uma base de membros apoiantes capaz de suportar pelo menos os custos de
> aluguer do equipamento e, em perspectiva, a gestão e desenvolvimento.
>
> Seria importante que o Indymedia, enquanto colectivo, ou algum (alguns) de
> vós se fizessem membros e listassem o site, de forma a conseguirmos uma
> estrutura de funcionamento mais clara.
>
> Estou certo que conseguem entre vós angariar 60 €/ano (5 €/mês) para o
> alojamento. Contudo, se tal for impossível, escrevam simplesmente isso nos
> additional remarks do formulário de aplicação - apesar de estarmos um pouco
> mais restritos a pedir a associação - porque os custos de alojar dezenas de
> sites gratuitamente nos estão a rebentar as costuras, dificultar a gestão e
> a colocar em risco todo o projecto -, não queremos deixar de apoiar
> colectivos e projectos que não o podem fazer.
>
> Então, vejam lá o que é possível e inscrevam-se, como indíviduos ou
> colectivo, no Ecobytes.
>
> Abraço,
> Gualter
>
>
> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Become a member of the new
> Ecobytes association! Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:38:02 +0200 From: Ecobytes
> e.V. <info@???> <info@???> To:
>
>
> Dear Ecobytes user,
>
> Ecobytes has been recently established as a non-profit organisation
> (e.V. for eingetragene Verein, in Germany). We want with this new form
> to make clearer our commitment to the community and the development of a
> service of public interest, as well as increase the transparency and
> structure of our work.
>
> >>>
> TL;DR: Please apply to Ecobytes membership here:https://degrowth.co-munity.net/ecobytes/membership-form
> Please note that not filling in an application will result in
> a discontinuation of the service on August 15th
> <<<
>
> We also want to more effectively engage in and develop projects for the
> ideas and social movements towards a more just and ecological society.
> For this purpose, we are joining in international partnerships with
> other IT collectives, agroecological initiatives (particularly
> community-supported agriculture), commons and degrowth projects.
>
> We are a growing community, fond of providing you a safe, sustainable,
> personal server, built from the least environmentally harmful parts and
> powered entirely by renewable energy. We provide secure data-storing
> from political groups, citizens, activists, artists and small entities,
> in order to perform in pure privacy, making sure your domain
> informations will be encrypted.
>
> With our work, we envision to become a resource for knowledge about
> environmentally sound and socially just computing, but also a part of
> movements for social change, by providing hosting based on solidarity
> economy principles and supporting Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS).
>
> After a few years of what we can call "emergency management" to keep the
> servers, your websites and e-mails running, we are now advancing with
> our project.In this transition phase, where we need to put a lot of work
> in cleaning up the past years mess, build up a new team and start new
> projects, we face a particularly difficult phase in terms of paying our
> running costs. Some of us have been injecting money to assure that the
> servers are not disconnected, but we can't support this situation much
> longer.
>
> In the last year, we have been intensively developing the co-munity
> platform, together with other organisations and movements of
> agroecology, transition and degrowth. This platform offers you and your
> organisations the possibility to organize documents, use etherpads,
> participate in discussions, create image galleries, etc.. We are also
> proud to be providing this platform service to two large projects on
> degrowth: GROWL (http://co-munity.net/growl), and the 4th international
> degrowth conference (http://leipzig.degrowth.org), of which we are partners.
>
> Further functions are being added to this platformand, soon, you will be
> able use a CRM, manage your mails, get a new domain, do a Wordpress or
> Drupal installation with only a few clicks in the Ecobytes community.
>
> How it works:
> As an association, to continue supporting us, you are requested to
> become a member of this association.
>
> The standard cost of a membership is 60 €/year. If you can't afford
> this, then you can write to info@??? and ask for a lower
> membership payment (and if you can more, please consider donating!).
> After you registered you will get an invoice and as soon as you paid you
> will be able to have access to member and community area, where you can
> add and safeguard your domains.
>
> As a member of Ecobytes, you have right to the hosting space that you
> have been used to in the past. We give to each member 10 Gb server
> space that you can use as you want: websites, but also for e-mails,
> web applications and file storage.
> With the membership you can use and take part in decision-making
> processes related to the Ecobytes virtual ecosystem. If you are having
> troubles proceeding with your website or have specific needs (e.g.
> require technical assistance for installation, web development, etc.),
> contact our team, but be aware that any extra service is charged at a
> standard hourly rate of 40€.
>
> Please apply to membership here:https://degrowth.co-munity.net/ecobytes/membership-form
>
>
> _Donations:_
> As a not-for-profit organisation with recognized public interest,
> Ecobytes e.V. is open for your donations, which can also be tax-deducted.
>
> We are not asking/charging for past payments, but would like to ask you
> to make an estimation of how much you would like to donate to pay for
> past services, when you register as a member. Simply estimate the value
> of your last years hosting (remember, basic hosting was 48 €/year, each
> domain 12 €/year) and what you can pay for it.
>
> The more dedicated our members are to the concept of our cooperative and
> the more of you donate, the faster our project is going to develop and
> offer you new, better and more secure services!
>
> _Expiration of old services:_
> We decided to expire automatically all domains and hostings that do not
> belong to a member of the new Ecobytes association by August 15th 2014.
> All files of disabled domains will be stored until December 30th 2014
> and then permanently deleted.
>
> Although we tried to avoid this cut, it's our only viable possibility
> for us to progressively restore an high quality of service and keep
> track and support of people who we host. Our account is very unbalanced
> now, with too much costs going for domains that are not being paid, and
> to a large extent, we suspect, not even being used. We need to get rid
> of all unnecessary costs if we want to assure the sustainability of
> Ecobytes.
>
> We hope you will want to continue supporting Ecobytes and the new
> planned developments, from which you will hear more about soon and, as a
> member, also be able to decide upon.
>
> =======================================================
> Please proceed to the membership form here:https://degrowth.co-munity.net/ecobytes/membership-form
> =======================================================
>
> Thank you for your support and trust in the work of this collective. We
> hope to be able to welcome you in our new association!
>
> Your Ecobytes system keepers,
> asdx, bata, gandhiano (gualter), mirijam, pierreO and zeh
>
> --
> Ecobytes e.V.
> Brückenstraße 20
> 37213 Witzenhausen
> Germany
> Tel: +49-151-41251126http://ecobytes.net
>
>
>
>
>
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