Notices by Sumana Harihareswara (brainwane@mastodon.social)

I'm interested in moving from mastodon.social to an instance where I am a paying customer; it would be especially awesome if the vendor also provided other hosted libre tools for paying customers, such as an Owncloud/Nextcloud or Jitsi/BigBlueButton instance. I welcome your recommendations & I welcome boosts.

@emacsen Hi! Also hi @aurynn per https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/108174302370889059.

Happy to talk in more detail. Things I want for any of the paid services:

* an actual service level agreement
* platform is updated regularly and never worryingly behind on security patches
* customer service folks who respond to me personally because I'm a customer

I assume a filehosting site can have some way to responsibly say "if you stop paying, we try hard to notify you, then archive your stuff, then delete your stuff"

This is a huge deal:

The Open Collective Foundation has just announced: "OCF now offers employment options to initiative workers—with health insurance!" https://blog.opencollective.com/oc-news-nov-2021/

If your FLOSS project is on OpenCollective, you can hire a maintainer as an employee! With health insurance & 401(k)!

This is such a huge step forward for open source sustainability, in particular for projects with key contributors in the United States. Let's talk about why! https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2021/11/24/0