ABOUT SITE MAINTENANCE
Dear Readers
Thanks to your reception, the site the earth is round has been successful beyond expectations. The increase in the audience, accompanied by the necessary expansion of collaborations, brought a series of demands concerning the maintenance of the site's standard that from now on require the continuous contribution of financial resources.
We have fixed expenses related to software, domain registration payments, hosting, SSL security, backup system, etc. In addition to these expenses, we have expenses with translation, typing and transcription of texts. To keep interested readers informed, we hired mailer, which publishes the daily posting of articles via email, and we have paid boosts on social networks.
The accumulation of tasks has been showing itself every day above the work capacity – which is and will continue to be voluntary – of the team responsible for the site. It is necessary to hire a person who is in charge of capturing, selecting and preparing images, as well as managing communication and social networks. And another dedicated to capturing, translating, transcribing, preparing, revising and formatting articles.
We have decided not to accept Google's advertising offers, especially since we have no control over the choice of advertisers. We plan to seek to survive with donations from readers.
To make this format viable, we had to open and register a non-profit company (with the expenses arising from this endeavor). Only then were we able to hire the Vindi payments platform, a company of recognized respectability and security, and that provides services to sites in the progressive field.
It is our purpose to make a quarterly account of revenues and expenses to be presented to employees. Financial contributions (in amounts to be chosen by the donor) can be made in the form of a monthly fee or a sporadic contribution.
You can make a donation on the home page, where you will find the links just below the main banner, or, if you prefer, you can go straight to the most appropriate option from here: donation monthly ou sporadic.
José Ricardo Maciel Kobayaski
Arthur Scavone
Ricardo Musse