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title: October Fundraising Story |. Needs Detail

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The story is annotated here: https://airtable.com/app36eKqH0CdYTpzS/tblyoO1xKvOAI5Aj9/viw8FVbnV0lSupUAG/rec4WcAMllfjubL5A?blocks=hide


Can you help us with the follow-up on this? Or find someone who can?  Grant told us a lot of detail, but as Kate said at the end of our meeting, we need the top level story: 

What is the problem
Who came to the rescue
What are the details?  (some are listed below)
What's the happy outcome? Why should this be an ongoing funding area?


Here are my notes on the details--they need to be developed because they are fairly technical.

Story 1. the switch to AWS: 
--more capacity, more speed, 
--mention Norbert (a fun detail on the past)
--Need to include a nod to Fastly
--things on this same program (prestigious) include NASA imagery, biogenomic (?) research
--it's an upgrade on the server in AMS--someting about $4k/ month value? 
--something about AWS's "open data" program and how we publish our stuff there? 

Importantly - why is this a good story for a funding appeal since it ameliorates some costs to the OSMF?  (Answer is Grant's ability to follow-through on this, I think?) 

Story 2: The move to Terraform and other website updates
--a big performance update on serving the standard layer.  
--Tom and Any have completed a years worth of work on the CSS.  
--the site is now easier to maintain
--another dev (NAME?) has created some styling and fixed other bugs. (there was a huge list of bugs in the repository - can we link to what's letft and also note how many are resolved by this? 
--these are not super visibility but they are essential to the stability of the site. 
--Supports Arabic and right to left readability
--uses Bootstrap (why does this matter?) 


--->Next steps from here - if you or @Mikel Maron  can fill in the blanks above,  I can draft the stories for the blog and check in with Andy and Grant and then Kate can mobilize the socials. 

--> Additional next step - did you happen to talk to Richard or anyone else about writing their own story about one of the other four funding topics? 
