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Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 11:49:26 +0200 From: Simon Poole simon@osmfoundation.org To: openstreetmap talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] 2013 fund raising drive

It may have gone slightly lost in the iD announcement and the flurry of discussions in the aftermath, but we kicked off our 2013 fund raising drive this week.

The donations will help finance a new database server and upgrades of other hardware. As you probably have noticed, we have had more than our fair share of issues with the current main DB server ramoth over the last couple of months and urgently need a further server with the same or better capabilities both as a replacement, to cater for growth and for redundancy. Luckily during most of the longer outages this year we were able to fall back to read-only mode, which while not perfect, is a lot better than what we could have provided even half a year ago. Moving to a configuration with two servers that both can handle the full load will greatly reduce the likelihood of longer outages, which given our ever increasing contributor base and expectations, have become less and less acceptable.

And I may add: having more redundancy will reduce the stress and the unplanned, out of work hours, emergency calls on our admin team members, which have spent more than enough weekends this year working on broken hardware.

Details can be found on this page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/New_server_and_fund_raising_drive_2013 , and you can donate here: http://donate.openstreetmap.org/server2013/

On behalf of the OSM community, the admin team and the OSMF, I would like to thank you in advance for your generous contributions.

Simon Poole Chairman, OSMF board

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