Annual Report 2024

The board for Libera Chat (802535-6448) hereby submits their annual report for the fiscal year 2024-01-01 – 2024-12-31.

General

Libera Chat operates a general purpose IRC network which at the end of the year served approx 131 000 registered users and 28 000 registered channels.

Libera Chat’s general purpose IRC network was launched 2021-05-19 and is operated by the organisation’s members on a volunteer basis. All infrastructure used for the network is donated and/or sponsored.

At the end of the fiscal year the organisation had 38 members.

We thank our sponsors for their continued support in providing infrastructure, everyone who has supported us with donations, over one thousand projects who have decided to call Libera Chat home for their IRC presence, and all of our users who continue to make Libera Chat a thriving IRC network.

Organisation

Meetings

The organisation held 11 Monthly General Meetings during the fiscal year.

Board

At the end of the fiscal year the board comprised

Auditors

The organisation has had one layman for the fiscal year: amdj.

Other

The Libera Chat Bylaws have been revised by 1 Monthly General Meeting, adding the role of Secretary General.

Finances

The result for the year is approximately 5 000 SEK, compared to approximately 600 SEK last year.

The result is split into approximately 1 000 SEK operating profit, which totals all of our incoming donations and operating expenses, and approximately 4 000 SEK in interest on our larger one-time donation from two years ago, which is held as a reserve in case of unexpected events or future major projects.

We thank everyone who has made a monetary donation or made a purchase via our merchandise partnership. These funds directly fund our organisational costs, and as can be seen by our operating profit the financial forecasting that led to us setting up a donation target on our donation plattform was accurate enough and means that we comfortably didn’t ask for more money than necessary. We are in a comfortable situation where our emergency fund is stable enough that we can set donation targets low.

Libera Chat’s expenses for the year have only been for domains, PO Box, accounting software, and banking services.

During the year we had issues receiving emails from one of our vendors, and an invoice from them was missed. This was not uncovered until about 1 month later when we started to wonder why this expected invoice had not arrived. The invoice was promptly paid, and we would like to extend a thank you to our Operations team for swiftly mitigating the email issues. In our full financial report the costs incurred from late-fees, interest, and debt collection can therefore be seen.

It should also be noted that since August of 2024, Liberapay has stopped reporting the transaction fees for secret donations for all transactions. Previously this was only missing for grouped transactions. Therefore our reported donation volumes and expenses may have slightly different proportions, especially in 2025.

The full financial report can be found in Appendix 1.

Appendices

The Board asked the Projects & Community Team, Engineering Team, and Operations Team to submit a report of their activities for the fiscal year; they are attached.

The financial report and the auditor’s report are also attached.