It is common that free/open source software collectives have issues for hosting their projects. Many of them just choose to externalize them, hosting them in foreign companies that offer such services. The ones that choose to keep their projects in their own servers (such as Comunes), face problems, continuous efforts and costs associated to high-bandwidth connections, hardware replacement, attacks, spam, QoS, etc. That's why we decided to associate with other similar social initiatives in order to build a collective data centre for all of us, and such data centre is becoming a reality now. Minka (which means "work in favor of ...