Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
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Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#2Would moving to torrents reduce the load? Kiwix seems to able to distribute offline wikipedia stackoverflow etc that way - https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#3I quite enjoyed khan academy when it was just Khan doing lectures. They were terrific.
I can't imagine, though, that servers should account for any sizable amount of overall expense. Is this really an issue for them? The linked page didn't seem to talk about it.
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#4I donated what I could. They’re doing amazing work
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#5I quite enjoyed khan academy when it was just Khan doing lectures. They were terrific. I can't imagine, though, that servers should account for any sizable amount of overall expense. Is this really an issue for them? The linked page didn't seem to talk about it.
It's a nonprofit organization. I'm not that educated on the topic but I think that means it's possible to find a breakdown of their expenses somewhere.
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#6I quite enjoyed khan academy when it was just Khan doing lectures. They were terrific. I can't imagine, though, that servers should account for any sizable amount of overall expense. Is this really an issue for them? The linked page didn't seem to talk about it.
Khan Academy isn't just composed of only youtube lectures, but a sophisticated platform for doing math problems, computer programming education, and so forth.
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#7I quite enjoyed khan academy when it was just Khan doing lectures. They were terrific. I can't imagine, though, that servers should account for any sizable amount of overall expense. Is this really an issue for them? The linked page didn't seem to talk about it.
It's a nonprofit organization. I'm not that educated on the topic but I think that means it's possible to find a breakdown of their expenses somewhere.
You can find their 2018 IRS filing here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/261...
I've never read one before, but it looks like their IT spend was $5m of $49m total expenses on page 10.
I think it's very plausible that a sudden unanticipated increase in IT costs could cause a cash crunch.
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#8Here's the video of Sal Khan talking about the donations [0]. Not much additional information, aside that he said they were already running on deficit before this crisis.
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#9I quite enjoyed khan academy when it was just Khan doing lectures. They were terrific. I can't imagine, though, that servers should account for any sizable amount of overall expense. Is this really an issue for them? The linked page didn't seem to talk about it.
It's a nonprofit organization. I'm not that educated on the topic but I think that means it's possible to find a breakdown of their expenses somewhere.
It was actually linked on the donation page: https://khanacademyannualreport.org/financial-information/
Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
#10Would moving to torrents reduce the load? Kiwix seems to able to distribute offline wikipedia stackoverflow etc that way - https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
Peertube is distributing the video streams P2P. Would be interesting to see whether KA could adapt that technology into their platform.