Deternet Groningen

Deternet Groningen

• Description: A short description of the project's aim in the short and long term. 
• Collecting Resources: A list of all the hardware that is expected to be necessary for the project and what hurdles need to be overcome, such as permits. This list of hardware is determined by a group of volunteers that have scouted the project on beforehand. After scouting they make a design and come up with a rough estimate on what the cost will be if no hardware is donated. That number will be set as a goal that needs to be achieved for the project to start. 
• Community Motivation: The great thing about a public funding page is that all the people involved in it can see who is contributing and how much still needs to be raised to reach its goal. People from the neighborhood could also get involved by promoting the project themselves.
• Hardware resources: Next to financial contributions also hardware could be directly donated according to the list of hardware provided on the funding page. If you do have hardware then please go to the project's page website. There you will find a button to submit your hardware and a volunteer will get in touch with you as soon as possible.
• Matrix channel: A dedicated Matrix channel is created for all communication regarding the specific project. This group will be a combination of volunteers that execute the project and the people that are involved in the project. The channel will be archived once the project has finished. Any questions after the project will be requested to send to the general customer service department of our hub.

• Hub's Rent: The rent of the Hub at the travertijnstraat 12 is at this moment 320 EUR per month. 
• Domains and Emails
• Website
• Equipment for in our server rack: Servers, switches, WAP's.
• Toolboxes for our installers
• Basic Food and Drinks for in the hub
• Travel sponsorship for contributors for conferences, meetups or lectures at educational institutions.

• We don't accept donations from any proprietary centralized tech corporation nor governmental institutions. This is to make sure to keep the original spirit of open source, which emphasizes freedom and community-driven development. Finally, government involvement could lead to increased regulation and control over open source projects.
• Individuals buy their own hardware. We don't use funds to sponsor people with private hardware, we only provide them with our time and knowledge. All funds go to public infrastructure investments that multiple people/regions make use of. 
• Unfortunately, there does not exist an open source alternative for money transfer at this moment, because well it involves money ;) The closed centralized projects we use at this moment are Stripe for Credit Card payments, SEPA for bank transfers and PayPal for digital payments. In the future we also hope that OpenCollective will implement iDeal(Wero) for the Dutch market.