From dean.mah at gmail.com Mon Nov 22 12:57:18 2021 From: dean.mah at gmail.com (Dean Mah) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 05:57:18 -0700 Subject: [theforum] update time In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 3:10 PM Dean Mah wrote: > I've spoken to Eric Meyer about the css-discuss list (which is hosted on > evolt), and he's happy for that to be a part of this drawdown plan. I just > need to figure out who manages the domains and dns for that, not sure if > that's you, Dean, or if it's John? I'm pretty sure that's John. Dean On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 5:58 PM William Anderson wrote: > > hi all, > > i figure it's time for this mail to go out. > > - finances and resources > > some of you may have seen a flurry of emails from paypal and google > adsense. basically dave has gotten in touch with me over the last > wee while, and has reassigned control of some key assets to me: the give@ > paypal account, the godaddy account, and the google adsense account. here's > the status: > > there's $409.66 in the paypal account. there hasn't been a donation from > anyone who wasn't me in over 3 years. i started paying for the digitalocean > account (where cerf and postel, the two virtual servers that currently > drive evolt live, costs about $18 a month) in october 2019 when payments > weren't being made any more from the paypal account. i'm going to have to > move that balance to another paypal account given that the OG one was in > Dave's name and citizenship for tax purposes, and the bank account backing > it for withdrawals is now closed. > > the godaddy account has the evolt.org domain name in it. it's due for > renewal on the 18th of december. i'm likely going to move that to my own > domain reseller account on or before that time. the evolters.org domain was > not renewed last year, not that we really used it. > > the google adsense account had $19-ish in it, again backed by the now > closed bank account so we couldn't get a payout (nowhere near the payout > threshold to boot), so i've shuttered it. i'm figuring out how to get that > all sorted again so ads in the browser archive and the list archive can > fund infrastructure costs for the future. > > - the future > > there hasn't been an email to thelist since may, and only a handful last > year (in january and february). there's been no real email to thechat since > march 2015. this is the first email to this list since like 2018. it feels > like evolt is properly asleep now, and i'd like to propose cryostasis. > > as a wrinkle, we still host the css-discuss website and list on eric > meyer's behalf, so i'll need to liaise with him to see what needs done > there; they still have a sprinkling of messages being sent to that list, so > it's likely something that needs moved rather than put into stasis. > > to that end, who has objections to: > - the mailman lists being closed > - the mailman lists being archived and made available as-is > - the evolt.org sites, including the article archive, remaining online but > even more static than before > - the virtual machines being reduced (i.e. from postel + cerf to just cerf) > or cancelled to limit further cost > > if there are no objections by the end of the year, i'll proceed with > figuring out the best way to tidy stuff up. > > thanks gang, 23 years is a long time for anything to be A Thing. > > -n > -- > TheForum Archives: http://lists.evolt.org/theforumarchive/ > > evolt.org wiki: http://wiki.evolt.org/ > teamwork site: http://evolt.teamworkpm.net/