About Lee Adamson (OCF)
PeerTube/Odysee/YouTube videos about Vintage Computing, Retrocomputing, Vintage Radios, Ham Radio, Amateur Radio.
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Welcome to the Buy Me A Coffee page. This thing is meant to help defray the hosting costs associated with the Old Computer Fun Network, including:
OCF Matrix Server VPS (ocfco.net:8448)
OCF PeerTube VPS (in progress)
OCF WWW and Gopher VPS (ocfco.net)
Retrocomputing Zone Obsolete Computer VPN (retrocomputing.zone, in progress)
OCF Matrix Server VPS (ocfco.net:8448)
OCF PeerTube VPS (in progress)
OCF WWW and Gopher VPS (ocfco.net)
Retrocomputing Zone Obsolete Computer VPN (retrocomputing.zone, in progress)
Here, you can make a single one-time donation or set up a monthly recurring donation through "membership". I also have SubscribeStar setup for monthly donations at https://www.subscribestar.com/old-computer-fun .
Current hosting costs are $10.50 per month, although this will change as PeerTube and the Old Computer VPN are spun up. My guesstimation is that PeerTube will cost $24/mo (although this can be rolled in with some of the other services) and the Old Computer VPN inner OpenVPN server will cost $4.50/mo, for a total of $28.50.
Any contributions in excess of current hosting costs will be rolled back into the channel and services in some way. If there is excess funding, my intention is to allow a 3-month buffer to accumulate, then use excess beyond that to buy broken old hardware (and the parts and supplies to fix it) to make videos about. If these machines are suitable to put on the Old Computer VPN and run services on for you guys to play with, then I will keep them and do that. If the machines are not suitable for such use, they will be given away to a supporter through a post here, via random selection. I don't know if selection should be weighted towards supporters who contribute more, or if everyone should have an equal chance. Let's talk about that.
If the Old Computer VPN grows to the point of consuming nontrivial amounts of electricity, I may start metering it and applying some of these funds towards that.
I intend for all funding to be fully transparent. On the 1st of each month, a post will be made here detailing the amount of contribution in the previous month, along with expenses and current balance.
If you have any criticisms or suggestions, please reply to this post with them. Thanks!!
Current hosting costs are $10.50 per month, although this will change as PeerTube and the Old Computer VPN are spun up. My guesstimation is that PeerTube will cost $24/mo (although this can be rolled in with some of the other services) and the Old Computer VPN inner OpenVPN server will cost $4.50/mo, for a total of $28.50.
Any contributions in excess of current hosting costs will be rolled back into the channel and services in some way. If there is excess funding, my intention is to allow a 3-month buffer to accumulate, then use excess beyond that to buy broken old hardware (and the parts and supplies to fix it) to make videos about. If these machines are suitable to put on the Old Computer VPN and run services on for you guys to play with, then I will keep them and do that. If the machines are not suitable for such use, they will be given away to a supporter through a post here, via random selection. I don't know if selection should be weighted towards supporters who contribute more, or if everyone should have an equal chance. Let's talk about that.
If the Old Computer VPN grows to the point of consuming nontrivial amounts of electricity, I may start metering it and applying some of these funds towards that.
I intend for all funding to be fully transparent. On the 1st of each month, a post will be made here detailing the amount of contribution in the previous month, along with expenses and current balance.
If you have any criticisms or suggestions, please reply to this post with them. Thanks!!
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Attached you will find the year to date funding statement. SubscribeStar withdrawls are a minimum of $150, and Buy Me A Coffee withdrawls are a minimum of $20, so we have to let the funding build up to at least that before requesting payouts. Therefore, your recent contributions may not be listed here yet. The unwithdrawn balance in SubscribeStar at the time of this post is $5.84. The unwithdrawn ...
2022 Funding statement through January
Feb 09, 2022
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