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From: cinereal <cinereal@riseup.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 13:57:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] investment questionnaire

Signed-off-by: cinereal <cinereal@riseup.net>
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+### Questionnaire
+
+In order to gather statistics for applications' flagship instances to extrapolate from, we have set up a questionnaire based on relevant metrics, set up using a LimeSurvey instance hosted by ProcoliX.
+
+### Questions
+
+1. Amount of people actively working on the project in:
+    1. development of the software
+    1. governance of the software
+    1. governance and moderation of the official instance
+    1. system administration of the official instance
+1. Resources used for the official instance in terms of:
+    1. CPU
+        * minimum/average/peak percentage of (number of) CPU cores used?
+        * CPU model used
+    1. storage: in e.g. GB currently used by the instance
+    1. networking: in e.g. min/max/average MiB/s in/out of the instance
+    1. RAM: in e.g. min/max/average GB used by the instance
+    1. related costs
+1. Investments in the project (e.g. donations, self-funded, grants like NLNet, commercial plans):
+    1. committed so far
+    1. received so far
+    1. periodical commitments
+
+## Accompanying introduction
+
+> Hi there,
+
+> On behalf of Fediversity, I'm gathering info on total global [investments in the global Fediverse ecosystem](https://git.fediversity.eu/Fediversity/meta/src/branch/main/investment_analysis), a report on which we will publish on our website <fediversity.eu>. As the structured information available on this topic for instances in the wild is fairly limited, for part of the questions on this I am hoping to make estimations by extrapolating from info on the flagship instances.
+
+> We hope a better overview on the resources in the Fediverse may help clarify its momentum for key decision-makers interested in adopting, investing in and interfacing with this technology.
+
+> Would you maybe have info for me for your application? Questions touch on:
+
+> 1. people active on the project
+> 1. resources used for the official instance(s)
+> 1. financial investments in the project
+
+> Thanks in advance for helping out - as well as for making the Fediverse great!
+
 ## A closer look at the Fediverse platforms
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