On this page you can find out more about servus.at membership and fill out the form to become a member.
servus.at
- promotes the use of free open source software
- explores phenomena of digital culture
- highlights socio-political implications in dealing with technology
- deals with central issues of the information society
You can find out more about servus.at here: https://core.servus.at/en/about/ueber-uns
Membership and membership fees
With a servus.at membership you support servus.at as an autonomous, non-commercially oriented structure and participate in it.
There are two types of membership:
- Individual membership, for artists*, cultural workers, developers*, activists* or simply servus-affine people. The membership fee is 10 euros per month (120 euros per year).
- Association membership for art and cultural associations and collectives. The membership fee is 30 euros per month (360 euros per year).
As a member, you are part of the association and can participate in the association's cultural program and projects as well as develop and host your projects on the infrastructure we maintain.
See the galaxy of our members: https://galaxy.servus.at/.
Infrastructure
servus members get access to our network infrastructure and can use the services listed in our toolbox, which are documented in our book of servus.
As a non-commercial initiative, we do not work according to the logic of "pay what services you rent". This means that there is no price list. Our members are part of the network and can use existing tools and share the available resources.
- For example, individual members have an account/access to an e-mail account (+ 5 e-mail aliases), FTP web space (possibly with their own domain) and databases, newsletter, cloud, Mastodon, Git, VPS or virtual machines (and more).
- Cultural associations can create several accounts for their members and collective accounts such as “office”, “news” or similar. In addition to the services listed above, we have also launched various collaboration tools such as Nextcloud Hub, Mattermost or forum platforms such as Discourse.
Is the tool you want not listed? Feel free to ask. Depending on capacity and resources, we also support our members in setting up new open source tools, which we can also offer to other members.
servus supports you ...
As a network of people, we are aware that resources are not distributed equally and that not everyone can afford or wants a full membership.
Students can receive a 25% discount.
We also offer a mini-membership for 2.50 euros per month. This gives you a compact account (email and cloud only). * This should not be seen as a basic membership, but as a solidarity option. If you can afford the individual membership, please do so.
If you need other services more and an individual membership is not an option for you or your request is not clear, please let us know. We don't let people down because of money!
... & you support servus!
However, the infrastructure and the work of the people who run it cost us money. Although we receive funding for our projects, the operational costs of the Cultural Data Center are also financed by memberships and contributions for extraordinary infrastructure projects.
If you (or your association) have sufficient resources to make a higher contribution, we are particularly grateful to you (or your association) and will include you among our supporting partners: https://core.servus.at/en/node/3580
Invoices
You will be billed twice a year (June and November) when we send out the invoice for your membership fee.
You can have your servus.at membership fee debited from your bank account by SEPA direct debit. Please fill out a direct debit mandate and send it to us. https://publications.servus.at/servus-data/sepa-mandat/.
Domain invoices
Domain invoices are sent separately to your e-mail address via our partner Proserver1.at.
Member information via Newsletter
We take the liberty of informing our members regularly by e-mail about club activities and basic services, such as planned maintenance or unplanned outages. You can cancel your subscription to the member info at any time using the link in the newsletter footer.
Cancel membership
Disclaimer: We understand if you are financially strapped. This happens all the time. But that should not be the reason to switch to data-hungry services! Please contact us and we will find a solution together.
You can cancel your membership at any time. Voluntary resignation can take place at the end of each quarter and must be announced at least one month in advance. Please use this form https://core.servus.at/de/content/kuendigung