This is one time. You, on behalf of Autonomic, already put in 30 of the 40 hours, there is no expectation of another 500 euros. Some groups gave money, some servers, some labour, they are all just to indicate we’re serious about this and its one time.
I understand 40 hours is a lot, but that is all kind of what we all put in without pay. It can be spread over many members and over time.
There is no “annual membership fee” but active participation is asked. I don’t expect All Hands to be as frequent after this initial phase. More small group / async work, hopefully eventually all paid.
That’s described here in the notes What services can we offer from 1st July 2020? - #10 by benhylau (as a proposal at the moment). Basically resellers handle relationships with Small, Medium, Large (e.g. we talked about how @wouter can service users in Catalan and Spanish, or Hypha can accept CAD payments, etc.) so there is advantage in “decentralizing” this.
Under that proposal, Small, Medium, Large are offered only through Operational Members. So if everyone is overcapacity… no you have nowhere to sign up, but we hope that never happens.
On the other hand, Organization and Custom accounts are managed by Meet.coop directly (as they require custom Greenlight and BBB deployments), as well as Event server access. So in general, we have to charge enough that makes it worthwhile for us to commit enough capacity.
This is to address earlier concerns about us wanting to be selective of clients. It may sound intimidating but it can be simple as a sign-up form to the reselling Operational Member to register a Small, Medium, Large account, or to the Meet.coop for the Free, Organization, Custom accounts, but the member reserves the right to say no to the applicant. We do not want members who are not aligned with our core values, and at the moment we can entrust Operational Members to make that decision. (e.g. Hypha will definitely reject any fascist organization from using our platform even if they pay the fees).