This is a lot like ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot#108, and was also inspired by talk of money in #huntinggrounds.
The major expenditure for Archive Team projects is finding some place to store all the stuff we download. IA has been an excellent host but even they have limits: they're not going to be all that happy with storing (say) a few hundred TB of Twitch videos, because that's space that they could use for saving the rest of humanity.
There are embryonic plans for an Archive Team storage depot that could supplement IA's storage. Something we can implement now, however, is a way to estimate how much a given project will cost IA (and probably also raw storage cost too -- this'll help focus discussions and will give us an opportunity to explain just what goes into IA's per-TB figures).
This is a lot like ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot#108, and was also inspired by talk of money in
#huntinggrounds.The major expenditure for Archive Team projects is finding some place to store all the stuff we download. IA has been an excellent host but even they have limits: they're not going to be all that happy with storing (say) a few hundred TB of Twitch videos, because that's space that they could use for saving the rest of humanity.
There are embryonic plans for an Archive Team storage depot that could supplement IA's storage. Something we can implement now, however, is a way to estimate how much a given project will cost IA (and probably also raw storage cost too -- this'll help focus discussions and will give us an opportunity to explain just what goes into IA's per-TB figures).