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title: "June, 2022: Monthly Report"
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description: "mCaptcha is successfully incorporated in India and ideas for mCaptcha commercial operations"
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lead: "We are mCaptcha. We build kickass CAPTCHA systems that give (DDoS) attackers a run for their money. And we do all of this without tracking your users. Oh and did I mention our UX is great?"
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date: 2022-07-07
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lastmod: 2022-07-07
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draft: false
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weight: 50
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images: ["icon.png"]
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contributors: ["Aravinth Manivannan"]
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---
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Hello and welcome to the June 2022 edition of the monthly report!
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## mCaptcha is incorporated!
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I spent June doing non-technical tasks but I made significant
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progress: I had been trying to do it since summer 2021, but I faced
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various setbacks along the way. A family friend, who is also an auditor
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helped me finally get mCaptcha incorporated!
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And we've already filed successfully filed the first tax return too!
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### GSTIN
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## Ideas for Commercial Operations
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Commercial operations will take a while longer(end of 2022, most
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probably). For [Hostea](https://hostea.org), I wrote a dashboard with
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payments capabilities(via Stripe) so that experience will help me do the
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same for mCaptcha. Working on Hostea has been truly enlightening: it's
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probably the first effort to offer a fully libre, infrastructure-as-code
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and payments software included, hosting service. I would like to do the
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same for mCaptcha so that service that I setup goes rogue or if someone
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wants to offer mCaptcha hosted services, they can replicate my set up
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with ease.
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But the commercial offering will at no point force me or future
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maintainers turn mCaptcha into adopting a non-free license like the
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[Server Side Public
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License](https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license).
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So the following months will see administrative changes within mCaptcha
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to device mechanisms to prevent me or any future party with influence in
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mCaptcha development from hurting the project by it non-free.
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Hostea is also an experiment in Free Software commercial operations, so
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naturally I'm highly impressed by the ideas that are being discussed
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there. mCaptcha, too, will borrow ideas from that project to make its
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development economically sustainable.
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