October 2020 Donations & Finances

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Donations are closed but there are still ways you can help!

We've met our donation goal for the month, but if you're still looking for ways to help Homecoming out then check out our How You Can Help Homecoming thread! Thank you all for your wonderful support as always.

 

Hello everyone!

 

It’s the last Saturday of the month, and that means it’s time to go over our finances for the past and upcoming month. If you haven’t already, check out the Page 6 preview we posted a few days ago which also includes a link to Piecemeal’s Dev Diary.

 

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September 2020 Breakdown

Last month we accepted $5,065.46 in donations, $378.10 over our target for the month. This overrun will be put towards the expenses for October.

 

Overall, here is the breakdown of what September’s funds went towards:

• $4,645.45 to OVH for our hosting
• $121.15 for our Google G-Suite Business account
• $30.00 for our 1&1 IONOS domain & outbound email service
  • This is the invoice we will be receiving for this service
• $25.00 for the Paperspace Air instance
• $10.00 for our Atlassian Jira Cloud instance (10-user)
• $9.73 for the security / administration software
• $1.62 to setup AWS SES as our new email provider

 

 

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October 2020

We do not have any additional charges or changes in October.

 

The donation target for October 2020 is $4,422.52. Here is a breakdown of how the funds are allocated:

• $4,645.44 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH
• $121.02 for our Google G-Suite services
• $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace
• $10.00 for our Atlassian Jira (Cloud) service
• $9.73 for security / administration software

 

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Our donation system will be open as of the time of this post with a donation target of $4,422.52 and will automatically close once that target is met.

 

As always, thank you for all of the support!

 

- The Homecoming Team

 

[Belldark]

Nice made this time.

[Glacier Peak]

Great work as always, glad to be able to support.

[MornaInPink]

Made it this month!!  Happy to support.  Thanks 

[Asacledhae]

Got you this month! 

This time I didn't miss it. 😎

[Starr Josh]

I'm happy I was finally able to donate this time. Keep up the good work. Thank you!

[Menaiya]

I got to donate for the first time!

[TygerDarkstorm]

Just now, Menaiya said:

I got to donate for the first time!

Same! Happy to help keep my favorite pastime running. 🙂

[LaRowen]

Wow, got done with work meeting early, logged on, heard folk talking, and came right over, made it this month! Didn't last month.

 

[Coyotedancer]

Woo! Made it in again. My luck with hitting the donation window has definitely improved. 

[Abraxus]

Done!  Always makes me feel good to contribute.  Especially when I consider how much I feel I get out of this game.

[LaRowen]

Slightly over half an hour. Excellent job Heroes and Villains!

[Kinestron]

Missed it. Got the in-game notification that the goal had been met so wanted to say thank you to everyone donating. You are awesome!

[starro]

woot, awesome community.

[_NOPE_]

13 minutes ago, Abraxus said:

Done!  Always makes me feel good to contribute.  Especially when I consider how much I feel I get out of this game.

Ditto

[Arcanum]

You guys are incredible! If anyone's ever looking for more ways to get involved, check out Jimmy's post here!

There are various things we're looking for; including volunteers to join the GM team! 😄

 

[Peerless Girl]

Missed it by THAT much! (Like..10 minutes). Next month baby, next month...