Add financials etc

content/articles/indexing-a-billion.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ It's two years since we launched [Mwmbl](https://mwmbl.org), the open
 source, non-profit search engine, on Boxing Day 2021. A good time to
 take stock of where we are and where we're going.
 
-# We've indexed over 100 million pages
+## We've indexed over 100 million pages
 
 Thanks to our volunteers, who crawl the web using the [Firefox
 extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/mwmbl-web-crawler/)
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Given that Mwmbl is still relatively unknown, it seems plausible that
 we can reach our target of crawling three billion pages a day, to
 refresh the entire index in one month.
 
-## Indexing a billion pages in 2024
+### Indexing a billion pages in 2024
 
 Our index is currently still a titchy 40 gigabytes, so scaling this up
 by a factor of 10 should be enough to reach this target, and is
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ building our own as [Marginalia Search](https://search.marginalia.nu/)
 does. We think we will eventually need to index 100 billion pages in
 order to meet our [search quality goals](https://book.mwmbl.org/page/roadmap/).
 
-## Other crawling improvements planned for 2024
+##' Other crawling improvements planned for 2024
 
  - Fix [Search queue does not have enough URLs from top domains](https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/issues/140)
  - Fix [SEO spam showing up in crawler](https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/issues/141)
 
-# Users can curate search results pages
+## Users can curate search results pages
 
 This is a big part of our goal to be a _community driven_ search
 engine. Instead of ranking being determined by a secret
@@ -47,12 +47,39 @@ curations.
 We currently have 54 registered users who have curated 241 search
 results pages.
 
-## Curation plans for 2024
+### Curation plans for 2024
 
 The curation user experience is still in an experimental phase. We
 will continue experimenting throughout 2024 to find the best way for
 users to contribute to improving search results. All suggestions
 gratefully received.
 
+## Financials
 
+Our finances are managed by [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/mwmbl)
+where we currently have funds of $733.36. Our estimated annual budget
+is $752.36 and we have spent $174.49. The biggest expense was
+purchasing a PyCharm professional license at $116.58, on top of that
+we have a GitHib Copilot license (somehow we don't qualify for the
+free version, despite being open source), and Mozilla's VPN so that we
+can crawl the web without getting blocked.
+
+Most of our finances come from one generous donor, we hope to have
+more donors in the coming year.
+
+## Incorporating
+
+We are still currently unincorporated as an organisation. The amount
+of funding we are getting is not enough to cover the costs of
+accounting and other overheads involved in forming an official
+organisation. The most likely way for us to incorporate is as a
+[Company Limited by Guarantee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_limited_by_guarantee)
+which is a standard vehicle for non-profits in the UK - see e.g.
+[The Openstreetmap Foundation](https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Incorporation).
+
+## Team
+
+Mainly still just me (Daoud) with help from the community. Please join
+our [Matrix chat](https://matrix.to/#/#mwmbl:matrix.org) if you are
+interested in helping out!