Incidental Infrastructure Costs

[kkremitzki]

Since the project mentioned in #112 is running longer than expected, I have not yet requested additional funding from DigitalOcean to cover our unoptimized infrastructure costs, and the $800/yr sponsorship from last May has already been exhausted.

I will soon request additional funding with the added justification/marketing content provided by the blog post documentation part of phase 2 for #112, which will likely be approved, but the January 2024 bill of $142.71 has come due already.

Additionally, we use a separate domain for the infrastructure itself, freecad.io, which needs renewal within the next month. Unfortunately, this domain has had a price increase, so the renewal cost for that through Gandi is now $69.99. I would like to renew this domain, but only for another year, enough to provide time for a migration, either to a cheaper separate domain, or to combine those resources onto freecad.org. (Part of the reason for the use of a separation domain is for historical reasons that no longer apply.)

So, this issue is to request $212.70 to cover these two (hopefully incidental) costs.

[WandererFan]

IIUC...

January 2024 Infrastructure expense $142.71 - reimburse Kurt for payment to ???vendor???
freecad.io domain renewal 1 year $69.99 - reimburse Kurt for payment to Gandi

[WandererFan]

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[kkremitzki]

IIUC...

January 2024 Infrastructure expense $142.71 - reimburse Kurt for payment to ???vendor???

First vendor, for the record, is DigitalOcean.

[WandererFan]

TY. Makes it easier to do the books if I have the names handy.

PayPal payment made this morning. Squawk if you don't see it.