[Funding]: 4 ofborg builders, hosted at tetaneutral.net

[nim65s]

Hi,

(in this issue I am speaking with the tetaneutral.net hat)

Since January 2025, tetaneutral.net has been hosting 4 builders for ofborg, but somehow the billing was not set up (very sorry about the procrastination amount here).

The machines have been sponsored by @liberodark, and I sponsored some additional RAM (4x128G for 540€).

I'm opening this issue mostly about the electricity bill. We measured a mean consumption of ~85W/builder, and here electricity is 0.256€/kWh. We also need to consider 5€/month/IPv4, so the costs are around 0.085 * 0.256 * 24 * 365 + 5 * 12 = 250€/year/builder.

Can the foundation cover this ?

If so, here are additional technical details:
tetaneutral.net is french non-profit "association loi 1901", so we can emit invoices.
We use open pricing, and we suggest 20€/year for the membership. And here I'll suggest 1000€/year for the 4 builders.
But tetaneutral.net can only offer services to its members, so the foundation would have to agree on the taking a membership (I don't think this has any practical impact beside having to say "yes" and having to decide the membership fee - and also receiving a yearly invitation to the general assembly).

And if not, well, we should find a another way to shoulder that, because tetaneutral.net can not handle this kind of amount :/

[Mic92]

Also spread this issue on matrix a bit to various channels.

[Mic92]

@Ra33it0 wrote me that this will discussed in a foundation board meeting.

[Lassulus]

This is approved. Happy to fill out the membership application. The invoices are probably best send via opencollective. Or directly via email. just DM me on Matrix if you have any questions :)