Transparency
Bearings is community infrastructure, run as lean as possible. Here is exactly what it costs to keep the lights on, the wallet that pays for it, and the sources we build on — money and knowledge, disclosed the same way.
What it costs
Domain/annualCurrently the free srv1744879.hstgr.cloud subdomain; bearings.community not yet purchased
free
TLS / SSL certificate/annualFree — Let's Encrypt via Caddy, auto-renewing
free
Hostinger VPS (KVM 1)/monthlyCA$27.19/month, renews on the 9th (next 2026-07-09); paid in USDC on Base via CoinGate. USDC is USD-pegged (~US$20 actual). Shown in CAD until a currency field is added.
$27.19
Monthly burn (annual costs ÷ 12)
$27.19/mo
Keep-the-lights-on wallet
Runway at current burn
0.0 months
Wallet address not yet published.
SSL is free (Let’s Encrypt, auto-renewing). The project takes no profit — any surplus stays in the wallet as runway. Anyone can verify the balance on the explorer above.
Kindred sources
The guides, magazines and archives we lean on.
Bear History Project International ↗ · archiveA volunteer organisation capturing the history of the bear movement through oral-history interviews, a Hall of Fame and an In Memoriam, before the people who lived it are gone. Also runs a bibliography and the Bear Studies Symposium.
BearGuide ↗ · directoryA community-maintained worldwide directory of bear bars, clubs and events.
World Bear Magazine ↗ · magazineIndependent bear news, interviews and titleholder coverage from across the community.
bearsx.social ↗ · aggregator DEBear meetups and events across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, in four languages, with a Submit Event route. Links out to Colonia Bears, Leine Bären, Leipzig Bären, Mannheim Bears, Nordbären Hamburg, Saar Bears and Stuttgarter Bären — a genuine aggregator, and the closest thing to a German national calendar besides BearEventsGermany. No RSS found.
Pinksider ↗ · guide DEGerman queer city guide (Köln, Berlin and others) with its own dated event listings. NOT an aggregator: it publishes its own pages and links out to nothing, so an event found there needs confirming against the organiser. No RSS found.
We don’t sell ads. These are resources we rely on and admire — go support them.
Feeds we read
Public iCal & RSS sources our agents check nightly.
Our nightly reader pulls these public iCal & RSS feeds from community organisers — many of the events you see start here. Thank you for keeping them open.
How we use AI
Disclosed, like our affiliates and our costs.
Research is assisted by AI agents — a nightly feed reader and a weekly “keeper.” They propose, never publish: a human approves every change. Records sourced from others carry that source in their notes, and primary-source evidence (photos, plaques, documents) is preserved as artifacts in the Archive.
World map: simple-world-map by Al MacDonald / Fritz Lekschas, CC BY-SA 3.0.