Project expenses

Recurrent expenses

Expenses related only to the free open source operation and management of Mayan EDMS.

All of these expenses are covered by myself, other members of the team, investors, and the business operations of Mayan EDMS LLC after the business operating costs.

The free open source operation of Mayan EDMS generates no revenue. No donations have been received since 2017.

Services

  • GitLab: $1,140 / year
  • Cloud servers: $300 / month
  • Domains: $300 / year
  • Hosted Email accounts: $25 /month
  • Legal: $1,300 / month
  • Tape storage: $50 / month
  • Online backups: $15 / month
  • Mail server (Mailgun): $35 / month
  • WAN connections: $195 / month
  • Colocation facilities: $750 / month

Sponsorship, donations

  • Skulls, Coreboot distribution: $65 / month
  • Educational institutions: $168 / month
  • Non profit: $225 / month

Effective expenses:
Month: $3,248
Year: $38,976

Fees

  • Stripe fees (Knowledge base): 1% to 15% depending on payment method.
  • Sellfy fees (Book sales)
  • Paypal fees (Support services)

Hardware

Approximate or rounded.

  • Workstations and laptops: $3,000 / year
  • Servers: $10,000 / year
  • Server equipment and parts: $2,000 / year
  • Tape backups maintenance and supplies: $1,500 / year
  • Network equipment and supplies: $2,000 / year
  • Power management equipment and supplies: $5,000 / year
  • Security equipment: $500 / year

Approximate hardware cost per year: $24,000

Total

Approximate total project cost per year: $62,976