The Game of Trees Hub is a transparently funded Git repository hosting service

Our infrastructure is based on OpenBSD and Game of Trees

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At a Glance

• Suitable for public and private Git repositories.
• Hand-crafted Git-compatible open source software stack.
• Transparent financials at Open Collective.
• Maintained by an experienced community of developers and admins.
• Backed by a self-owned European small business which pays taxes.
• Security, privacy, and stability first.
• Reliable repository backups.
• Hosted on physical hardware at trustworthy providers.
• Edit our service configuration file in your favourite editor.
• Bring your own internet domain name if you want to.

Community Tiers

Community tiers are intended for personal use by individuals and collectives. Prices include VAT.

Professional Tiers

Professional tiers are intended for, but not restricted to, use by companies and organizations. Commercial support for these tiers is available from Chirpy Software.

VAT will be charged on top unless a VAT ID is provided.

Git Repository Hosting

Game of Trees servers interoperate with any Git client. Users access Git repositories securely via Git's SSH protocol, based on OpenSSH, and manage their repository space by committing a configuration file to a special-purpose Git repository. The configuration file controls user accounts, repositories, access permissions, and more.

Access to repositories is private by default but can be made public if desired.

All Git repositories are backed up and can be restored by the admin team in case of hardware failure or other problems.

Each Game of Trees Hub project space runs in a dedicated virtual machine on top of the OpenBSD vmm hypervisor. Git repository services in virtual machines are implemented by the Game of Trees gotd, gotwebd, and gotsysd servers. All virtual machines, services, and underlying servers are managed by our admin team.

We aim for secure and reliable version control. Game of Trees does not provide features such as discussion forums, likes, stars, or per-user activity metrics. Project management features such as issue tracking or mailing lists may appear at some point in the future. See our features page for a list of current and planned features.

Funded via Open Collective

We operate much like a free software project. However, running a hosting service costs money, which is provided by our users to ensure our independence and sustainability. Our finances are transparently managed on the Open Collective platform, allowing anyone to see where our money comes from and where it goes to.

Our Open Collective page is collecting funds to support the development of Game of Trees and this platform. Git repository hosting tiers can be booked via email.

Our existing backers receive email when we publish announcements on our Open Collective page, and will be given priority in our sign-up queue. We also publish announcements on Mastodon at exquisite.social/@gothub

Our users are either project owners who pay a fee for their use of the service, or people who have been given access to a Git repository by a project owner and who are not required to pay. We always welcome voluntary financial contributions via Open Collective.

Administrators appear as "Team" and "Admin" on our Open Collective page. They are involved in keeping the service running and reviewing related expenses.

Fiscal host

Managing funds via Open Collective requires a fiscal host. The fiscal host owns the bank account, represents the Game of Trees Hub project on invoices, and deals with legal obligations such as taxes.

Project owners must be capable of entering a business relationship with our fiscal host. Examples: Private individuals who own a credit card, companies, non-profits, academic institutions.

Our current fiscal host is Chirpy Software SRL, a limited-liability company owned by Stefan Sperling who founded the Game of Trees project in 2017.