Title: Donation campaign 2018 for Nos oignons
Date: 2018-11-03 15:20

[![Banner of the fund-raising campaign]({static}/images/no_fundraising_2018.png)]({static}/images/no_fundraising_2018.png)

It's no secret that I do like the [Tor project](https://torproject.org): Most
of my traffic goes through it, I'm running some relays, I'm close to the
[Tails]( https://tails.boum.org) project, I'm giving
[talks]({filename}/talks/ndh2016.md) and trainings about it, … and I'm also a
sysadmin for [Nos oignons](https://nos-oignons.net/%C3%80_propos/index.en.html).

Nos oignons is a 5 years old French non-profit association living on
donations, dedicated to running Tor exit nodes in France, to improve the diversity of the network.
A bit like [Emerald Onions](https://emeraldonion.org/) in Seatle, [Frënn vun
der Ënn](https://enn.lu/) in Luxembourg,
[Zwiebelfreunde](https://www.zwiebelfreunde.de/) in Germany, …

A *bit less* than 1 on 50 connections are going through [one of our 6
nodes](https://nos-oignons.net/Services/index.en.html), we're providing a
capacity of symmetric 600Mbit/s to the network and are amongst the
[top15](https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/allexitfamilies) exit families. To
keep our machines running, we need money: we're [barely
afloat](https://nos-oignons.net/Actualit%C3%A9s/20181018_rapports_2017_2018/index.en.html)
thanks to recurring donations, but we would like to have some margin and to
spawn a new relays: a single machine costs us, per day, around 30€.

This is why we're doing a [donation
campaign](https://nos-oignons.net/campagne2018/index.en.html): more
sustainability, resilience, and hopefully new exit nodes! Of course, goodies as
in "postcards and posters" for you should you give more than respectively 10€
and 50€. Our yearly budget is about 12,000€, and a bit more than 80% of it
goes directly to pay relays, you can find all the details
[here](https://nos-oignons.net/%C3%80_propos/index.en.html).

Help us to help the tor network in France, [donate to Nos oignons]( https://nos-oignons.net/Donnez/index.en.html )!