We had that weird crypto thing earlier this year that resulted in somewhere between $20k and $40k of usable donation money. Based on the thread, it doesn’t sound like the money has been used to pay for the binary cache yet. Even $10k of that would buy us another month to come up with a solution, and the rest of it could go towards buying hardware for a non-GitHub permanent solution (if we go with @piegames’s wish to avoid GH-hosted runners).
There were some questions in the thread about the legal paperwork required to make the funds usable, but OfBorg is explicitly named in the “what we’ll use the money for” section, so I imagine there wouldn’t be much obstacle to it:
- We have a lot of unfunded NixOS projects and common goods that doesn’t receive any attention, we would make a list out of it, e.g. Hydra/OfBorg, etc. and try to figure out if we can make a project funded out of this money
- We want to be able to self-host as much as possible, and this would be a nice fund to buy hardware.
@Infinisil @RaitoBezarius Did you figure out the status of those funds?