2017 Hosting Digital Ocean

Resolution:

SFC should register with DigitalOcean so we can accept their offer and proceed with setting up services on their platform.

Proposal:

Your vote is needed to accept hosting sponsorship from DigitalOcean.

  1. Accept DigitalOcean’s offer of $500 credit on their virtual hosting system for use in provisioning various Inkscape web services. Add DigitalOcean as a Bronze level sponsor for 2018. Authorize Conservancy to initiate registration with DigitalOcean for Inkscape.

Votes:

Board Member 1.
Bryce Harrington a.
Josh Andler
Tavmjong Bah
Ted Gould a.
Martin Owens a.
Marc Jeanmougin a.
Chris Rogers a.

Background:

In 2017, the Inkscape Board solicited sponsorship offers for web hosting. We received an offer from DigitalOcean that provides a credit for $500 in service on their virtual hosting platform. It doesn’t match all the requirements we had called for, but it may be able to address near term service needs while we continue our search.

Registration with DigitalOcean requires entry of financial information so will need to be performed by the Software Freedom Conservancy staff for us. This vote authorizes them to do so.