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date: 2024-08-26
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date: 2024-10-21
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article.title: What has robur been doing and how since 2018?
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article.description:
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tags:
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niche market - we decided from the early days that bookeeping and invoicing
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should not be part of our collective. Especially since we want to be free in
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what kind of funding we accept - donations, commercial contracts, public
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funding. In the books, robur is part of a non-profit company in Germany - and
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friends of ours run that company. They get a cut on each income we generate.
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funding. In the books, robur is part of the non-profit company
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[Änderwerk](https://aenderwerk.de) in Germany - and friends of ours run that
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company. They get a cut on each income we generate.
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To be inclusive and enable everyone to participate in decisions, we are 100%
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transparent in our books - every collective member has access to the financial
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design workshop (5,000 EUR).
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And lastly, we started to work on [TLS 1.3](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8446)
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funded by Jane Street via OCaml Labs Consulting. In 2018, we received 12,741.71 EUR
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funded by Jane Street (via OCaml Labs Consulting). In 2018, we received 12,741.71 EUR
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We applied at NLNet for improving the QubesOS firewall developed in MirageOS
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(without success), tried to get the IT security prize in Germany (without
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We also applied to NLnet with [DNSvizor](https://nlnet.nl/project/Robur/), and
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got a grant, but due to buerocratic reasons they couldn't transfer the money to
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our non-profit, and we didn't get any money in the end.
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our non-profit (which was involved with NLnet in some EU grants), and we didn't
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get any money in the end.
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| Project | Amount |
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|----------|----------:|
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was great to have the freedom to work on which OCaml packages we were keen to
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get up to speed. In 2020, we received 45,000 EUR for this maintenance.
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We finished the TLS 1.3 work (18659.01 EUR)
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We finished the TLS 1.3 work (18,659.01 EUR)
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We continued to work on the NetHSM project, and invoiced 55,500 EUR.
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A grant application for [bob](https://github.com/dinosaure/bob/) was rejected,
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but a grant application for [MirageVPN](https://github.com/robur-coop/miragevpn)
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got accepted.
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got accepted. Both at NLnet within the EU NGI project.
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| Project | Amount |
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We also finished the MirageVPN work, and received another 45,000 EUR.
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We had a small contract with Semgrep again on porting Python code to OCaml and received 18,559.40 EUR.
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We had a contract with Semgrep again on porting Python code to OCaml and received 18,559.40 EUR.
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We again worked on several successful funding applications, one on
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[PTT](https://nlnet.nl/project/PTT/) (NGI Zero Core), a continuation of the
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We also got [MTE](https://nlnet.nl/project/MTE/) (NGI Taler) accepted.
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The below table is until end of August 2024.
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The below table is until end of September 2024.
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| Project | Amount |
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| Semgrep | 18,559.40 |
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| Tarides | 54,937.50 |
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| Tarides | 62,812.50 |
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| MirageVPN | 45,000.00 |
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| __Total__ | __118,496.90__ |
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| __Total__ | __126,371.90__ |
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## Total
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| 2021 | 164,976.00 |
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| 2022 | 107,000.00 |
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| 2023 | 141,250.00 |
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| 2024 | 118,496.90 |
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| __Total__ | __1,013,077.54__ |
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| 2024 | 126,371.90 |
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| __Total__ | __1,020,952.54__ |
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As you can spot, it varies quite a bit. In some years we have fewer money
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available than in other years.
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## Expenses
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As mentioned, the non-profit company [Änderwerk](https://aenderwerk.de) running
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the bookkeeping and legal stuff (invoices, tax statements, contracts, etc.) gets
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a cut on each income we produce. They are doing amazing work and are very
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quick responding to our queries.
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We spend most of our income on salary. Some money we spend on travel. We also
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pay monthly for our server (plus some extra for hardware, and in June 2024 a
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huge amount for trying to recover data from failed SSDs).
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## Conclusion
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We have provided an overview of our income, we were three to five people working
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at robur over the entire time. As written at the beginning, we use needs-based
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payment. Our experience with this is great! It provides a lot of trust into each
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other. From our income, some money flows to Aenderwerk for their amazing
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bookkeeping work - writing invoices, doing the taxes, helping us with contracts.
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We also finance our server, including a severe hard disk failure in June 2024.
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other.
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Our funding is diverse from multiple sources - donations, commercial work,
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public funding. This was our initial goal, and we're very happy that it works fine
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over the last five years.
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public funding. This was our initial goal, and we're very happy that it works
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fine over the last five years.
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Taking the numbers into account, we are not paying ourselves "industry standard"
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rates - but we really love what we do - and sometimes we just take some time off.
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interested, please drop us a message.
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Of course, if we receive donations, we use them wisely - mainly for working on
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the currently not funded projects (bob, miou, mollymawk - to name a few). If you
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the currently not funded projects (bob, albatross, miou, mollymawk - to name a few). If you
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can spare a dime or two, don't hesitate to [donate](https://robur.coop/Donate).
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Donations are tax-deductable in Germany (and should be in Europe) since we're a
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registered non-profit.
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If you're interested in MirageOS and using it in your domain, don't hesitate
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to reach out to us (via eMail: team@robur.coop) so we can start to chat - we're keen to deploy MirageOS
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and find more domains where it is useful.
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