Support Open Community Archives with Long-Term Hosting

Overview

Open Community Archives is a long running effort to preserve community created knowledge and cultural artifacts in a durable, accessible way. This donation page supports long term hosting for the archive, ensuring that important materials remain available to researchers, students, and curious readers. The initiative focuses on stable, scalable hosting, robust backups, and a governance process that welcomes contributor input. Our goal is to create a reliable home for archived content that can outlast individual projects and preserve local histories for future generations.

Why Your Support Matters

Maintaining open archives requires deliberate planning and steady funding. Hosting, storage, bandwidth, and content moderation all contribute to a sustainable infrastructure. Your contribution helps cover the recurring costs of servers and backups, while also enabling outreach and accessibility improvements. By supporting this effort, you help ensure that open knowledge remains freely available and navigable for years to come. This is a community owned project, run with transparency and care.

Stability for long term hosting and backups
Expanded access through simple, multilingual interfaces
Ongoing governance and community review to align with shared values
Open reporting on costs, usage, and milestones

How Donations Are Used

Donations fund the core hosting stack, site performance improvements, and accessibility work. We publish annual or semi annual reports detailing costs for storage, bandwidth, domain management, and security audits. Funds also support outreach to new communities, translation of interfaces, and accessibility testing (screen readers, keyboard navigation). The aim is to be concrete and measurable so supporters can see how funds translate into improved service.

Typical allocations include:

Hosting and backups with multiple geographic mirrors
Content moderation and quality assurance
Technical maintenance and security monitoring
Localization and accessibility improvements
Community governance and open reporting

Community Voices

“The archive is a quiet backbone for researchers and educators. It keeps a region’s narratives alive.”

— A longtime contributor

“Knowing the data is hosted with care gives our contributors confidence to share more beyond the obvious.”

— Open Knowledge Enthusiast

Transparency And Trust

We are committed to openness. Donor visibility, public facing costs, and governance practices are documented and updated regularly. Public ledgers and funding reports provide a clear view of how resources are allocated. If you have questions, we welcome community input through open channels and periodic town halls.

Updates

Current hosting plan supports steady growth with dedicated redundancy across two continents
Translations expanded to three languages with accessibility testing underway

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