diff --git a/content/blog/06-22-monthly-report/index.md b/content/blog/06-22-monthly-report/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da4c793 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/06-22-monthly-report/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +title: "June, 2022: Monthly Report" +description: "mCaptcha is successfully incorporated in India and ideas for mCaptcha commercial operations" +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?" +date: 2022-07-07 +lastmod: 2022-07-07 +draft: false +weight: 50 +images: ["icon.png"] +contributors: ["Aravinth Manivannan"] +--- + +Hello and welcome to the June 2022 edition of the monthly report! + +## mCaptcha is incorporated! + +I spent June doing non-technical tasks but I made significant +progress: I had been trying to do it since summer 2021, but I faced +various setbacks along the way. A family friend, who is also an auditor +helped me finally get mCaptcha incorporated! + +And we've already filed successfully filed the first tax return too! + +### GSTIN + +``` +33DGKPA2253J1ZN +``` + +## Ideas for Commercial Operations + +Commercial operations will take a while longer(end of 2022, most +probably). For [Hostea](https://hostea.org), I wrote a dashboard with +payments capabilities(via Stripe) so that experience will help me do the +same for mCaptcha. Working on Hostea has been truly enlightening: it's +probably the first effort to offer a fully libre, infrastructure-as-code +and payments software included, hosting service. I would like to do the +same for mCaptcha so that service that I setup goes rogue or if someone +wants to offer mCaptcha hosted services, they can replicate my set up +with ease. + +But the commercial offering will at no point force me or future +maintainers turn mCaptcha into adopting a non-free license like the +[Server Side Public +License](https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license). +So the following months will see administrative changes within mCaptcha +to device mechanisms to prevent me or any future party with influence in +mCaptcha development from hurting the project by it non-free. + +Hostea is also an experiment in Free Software commercial operations, so +naturally I'm highly impressed by the ideas that are being discussed +there. mCaptcha, too, will borrow ideas from that project to make its +development economically sustainable.