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Thanks for visiting the Mended Drum OpenCollective Page. The Mended Drum is a Mastodon server hosted at mendeddrum.org, and serves as a friendly social place for fans of Terry Pratchett and/or Neil Gaiman to connect to 'the Fediverse'.
Running the server is of course not free, so your contributions are welcome! I strive to be as transparent as possible about the financial aspects of the Drum. Expect monthly financial updates in the news section below.
The running of the server is a private undertaking for family and friends, and any gifts are personal gifts for tax purposes. To prevent me from being taxed (and your money therefor being collected by the taxman and not one of the goals below), there is a €2000,-/year maximum donation limit (per supporter). (Dutch tax laws would kick in with higher amounts, so Elon you needn't apply). Just to be absolutely crystal clear: donations are voluntary and no rights can be derived from them.
Any donations raised will be spent in the following order:
Running the server is of course not free, so your contributions are welcome! I strive to be as transparent as possible about the financial aspects of the Drum. Expect monthly financial updates in the news section below.
The running of the server is a private undertaking for family and friends, and any gifts are personal gifts for tax purposes. To prevent me from being taxed (and your money therefor being collected by the taxman and not one of the goals below), there is a €2000,-/year maximum donation limit (per supporter). (Dutch tax laws would kick in with higher amounts, so Elon you needn't apply). Just to be absolutely crystal clear: donations are voluntary and no rights can be derived from them.
Any donations raised will be spent in the following order:
- To pay for the current (or last) months hosting bills;
- To improve the server capacity where deemed necessary;
- To save for the coming months hosting bills up to a maximum of 12 times the last bill[1];
- Every three months, any superfluous donations will be given away, to support (open source) projects that help run the Drum, Alzheimer Research and the Orang Utan Foundation, in remembrance of #GNUTerry.
Thank you for your support, have a drink and don't mind the Orang Utan at the bar!
[1] If ever the Drum ceases to exist, or this buffer isn't necessary anymore, the remaining amount will be added to the donation as in #4.
[1] If ever the Drum ceases to exist, or this buffer isn't necessary anymore, the remaining amount will be added to the donation as in #4.
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News from MendedDrum
Updates on our activities and progress.
January 2026 Update - The L-Space Letter
Hi there, and sorry for the delay in sending out this quarterly update. It's been busy on the home front, but luckily not so busy on the Drum front so this will be a shortish update.Update to version 4.5.2Where the update t...
Published on January 22, 2026 by Patrick Dersjant
October 2025 Update
Hi there, Looking outside, autumn has truly arrived. Time for another short quarterly update on the Mended Drum! Update to version 4.4.4 After some careful testing, on September 17th I've been able to upgrade the Drum to Ma...
Published on October 5, 2025 by Patrick Dersjant
July 2025
Hi there,After the heatwave seems to be before the heatwave, so here we go with another quarterly update on the Mended Drum!Technical developmentsAgain, in this quarter the Drum has been running fine. However, we do sometim...
Published on July 9, 2025 by Patrick Dersjant
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Budget
Transparent and open finances.
Credit from Gabe to MendedDrum •
+€8.88EUR
Completed
Contribution #706710
+€6.66EUR
Completed
Contribution #603267
+€2.50EUR
Completed
Contribution #925036
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Today’s balance€2,937.87 EUR
Total income
€3,350.80 EUR
Total disbursed
€412.93 EUR
Estimated annual budget
€1,159.96 EUR