On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Kyle Mitchell <kyle@kemitchell.com> wrote:

On 2018-01-15 11:01, Jenny Ryan wrote:
> We technically have just three bills - Omni ($2000/mo), Digital Ocean
> ($15/mo) and Gandi.net (?/yr)

Who pays Gandi.net?  We should find out what the number is,
or at least cap it.  For example, "no more than $10 a month".

I think it's something like $15/yr, but we only recently gained control of our own domain and i don't have the password to that account. I'm setting up a passpack now and will signal text the login info to a few folks. Plz add any passwords you've stored for sudo!

 

We want a specific number.  Not necessarily a perfectly
correct number.  But a number that lets us say: "If we bring in
$X per month, we are meeting all of our financial obligations,
and can put that out of mind."

> We used to pay $446/mo in utilities to Omni, but plead poverty in tandem
> with CCL early last year and reduced our monthly payment to $2000. Omni is
> by no means financially stable as of yet, and I'm still doing the
> end-of-month scramble dance every month to ensure we can make our mortgage
> payments.

What would Sudo Room pay to cover its actual share of costs,
reliably, without any financial assistance from Omni?
$2,500 per month?

That should be our target.  Nothing less.

$2500 is a good monthly number, but we should also do some fundraising activities (crowdfunding, parties, fixit clinic, etc) to build up an operating reserve fund (3 months expenses, or $7,500) and a capital reserve fund (equivalent to operating, for improvements and necessary building maintenance&repairs) = $15,000.