i say we make it a community event. with blackjack and hookers!
LOL
So the next question is how to organize the efforts.
More seriously, I have spoken of the need for the community to organise better so many times by now, I am not sure what more to add on that particular subject and tbph I don't recall seeing much in terms of suggestions or even acknowledgements of that need from community members whenever that subject was raised.
In theory, we have everything we need at our disposal, hosting packages and other services.
I could easily extend the unlimited hosting package I use for ** ** www.ps3xploit.net > Domain no Longer owned by team** (NEW URL = http://ps3toolset.com) > Domain no Longer owned by team** (NEW URL = http://ps3toolset.com to other domains if it suited everyone. Or we could use another package altogether, I would not be surprised if other people in this community had even better deals to suggest, in situations like this, the more suggestions the better obviously.
But anyway, the problem is not how to set that shit up on a technical level, it's mainly how to ensure the long term funding, unfortunately I don't have a miracle recipe to suggest for this, if I did I would already have put something in place for the ps3xploit sites.
We simply cannot count on regular small donations motivated by good will, it's sad but that's how it is therefore we will need to think outside the box and figure something else somehow... otherwise whoever takes care of making payments will continuously be chasing cash, given my own experience of the matter, I would not want the responsibility, I can tell you that much already.
We could maybe try to raise enough money for say 9 years (3 times a 3 year plan + 9 years of domain renewals all paid up front) if we make a really big thing of it, it may take a lot of effort to raise that much but that could keep services safe for some time however 9 years is not really long term either moreover it doesn't account for any extras, and that bare minimum might already prove a serious challenge when it comes to raising enough donations to cover it.
Minting a limited series of NFTs could be a potential solution that I mentioned once briefly before but we would need willing contributors to create them and we'd have to think of ways to offer added value to the NFTs beyond the obvious.
If we could mint say 250 nice looking NFTs at 0.02ETH each on average (about 60 bucks atm), it would solve the problem once and for all, especially as ETH value is very likely to go up in the future.
We could get proper dedicated hosting (not shared), custom SSL, the lot covered for quite some time without having to worry..
And if ever that worked out, we might even consider pushing the idea further and do another series to create a development fund to promote hacking and development, attract and reward new talents, provide help to hardware based research projects..
Of course, it's just an idea I am throwing though. Yet I think it may be worth considering, given the stakes I know I would buy a community NFT without hesitation if that were a thing.
Another alternative might have been to use blockchain technology to make the community completely autonomous, running its own file storage capabilities on the community's own personal devices, PCs or other, with some kind of reward for those storing community data. The community should be big enough to sustain something like that in theory but we would have to put that system together and we would still need to find a way to fund the reward system.
And then there's also the problem of management and that's potentially another conundrum made more complicated whenever there's money in custody.
Who will take care of this long term consolidation?
Who will administer the hosting?
Who will set up the storage space and deliver FTP creds to scene devs (not just to those who are members of this forum)?
Should several people administer/manage? Most likely.
Whose name(s) will the contracts and payments be made under? Using what payment method?
etc...
We would need people willing to take on the responsibilities and who have our complete trust, this kind of people might be in very short supply, keeping in mind also that people would unavoidably come and go on the long term.
