We recently crossed the first anniversary for many of us on Lemmy and the Fediverse, and we are thrilled to announce an important milestone: we have started a new registered not-for-profit organization! The organization is registered as ‘Federated Open Communications Canada’, and we will go by ‘Fedecan’ in our day-to-day operations.
Over the past few months, we have been working behind the scenes on the necessary paperwork, bylaws, and other administrative tasks to get the organization rolling. Thanks to the invaluable feedback from our previous check-in, we decided to take the leap and register federally, which will allow us to operate across Canada more easily. For more details, you can check out the FAQs on our new website.
Resuming Donations
With this important step completed, we are now ready to resume accepting donations. We have set up several donation options to accommodate different preferences on convenience and fees. Our first priority is to reimburse those who have been covering server and other costs, and to set up regular financial updates. We are open to adding more donation options, so please let us know if there is an option you prefer.
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Donation Page: (fedecan.ca/donate)
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Alternate Donation page without embedded elements: (fedecan.ca/donate-private)
Our current costs
- Server hosting - $150/month
- Domains registrations - $50/year
- Non profit requirements - $500 one time
Our Next Steps:
- Reimburse individuals who have covered server and operational costs and to set up more regular financial updates
- Collaboratively creating guides and learning resources about Lemmy and the Fediverse (ex. how things work, data/privacy details, and best practices for moderating or running instances, etc.) + translations
- Exploring other platforms to run. Some that are on our radar include Sublinks, Pixelfed, and Matrix
- Developing logos, colours, and other branding details based on ideas from the community
What we want to know:
- Do you have any questions, comments, or concerns? This will also help us expand our FAQs
- Which other platforms would you like us to explore?
- Do you prefer any other donation method?
We want to help build a better online experience for everyone, and that requires an organization with a strong foundation. This should be the first step in that process.
Thank you for everything so far, and we look forward to seeing you around! 🥳
The Fedecan Team
Apologies if this sounds impatient, but is there any kind of update on the status of Fedecan? This was announced six months ago and there’s been radio silence since then.
Not at all, that’s fair to ask!
Right now the focus is on moving to our new hardware, with some more details in the body of this post.
https://lemmy.ca/post/36540245
Once that’s done we will be able to spin up additional services much more easily, and it will also change our estimated financial situation (donations vs. costs etc.)
We’ve also been busy the past few months with other things (especially me) and so I haven’t been able to post updates as often as I would have wanted to. Thankfully I’ve got a lot more time in the new year so that should be different moving forward :)
Was there a certain aspect you wanted to hear back on? I can write up more details on that in the meantime
Thanks for the reply. I am particularly interested in Fedecan’s expansion into other decentralized/federated platforms. I know the timing is dependent on the server migration, but I was wondering if there’s a tentative list of what may be supported.