Your donation will help us with the following:

• The FluentCommunity lifetime plan is purchased. Hostinger is upgraded to Business. External cloud storage activates. For the first time, members can submit photographs, documents, and media directly to the archive — and those files route automatically to Cloudflare R2, where they will be stored cheaply, reliably, and permanently. The hard limit of the early launch is gone. The archive is open.
• The archive submission page goes live alongside a dedicated archive homepage — a public-facing front door that any Hampshire person, anywhere in the world, can walk through. Not just members. Anyone who wants to understand what Hampshire was, what it built, and what it left behind.
• This phase is also when Frogbook becomes a governed space rather than just a managed one. Community guidelines are established — not a list of rules handed down from above, but a set of principles shaped by the community itself, reflecting Hampshire’s own values: care, honesty, respect for the work people share here, and accountability without punishment. Guidelines that make the space worth being in.
• And then something newer: archival web crawlers. Automated tools that search the public web for Hampshire-related articles, interviews, press coverage, and documentation — and surface them for the archive team to review, tag, and preserve. Hampshire has been written about, documented, and discussed for over fifty years. Much of that exists online in places that may not survive forever. Phase 3 begins the work of finding it before it disappears.
• Hampshire closed its doors. Phase 3 opens ours — permanently, publicly, and with enough infrastructure behind them to stay open.