On 24/04/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 4/23/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps if we can present such united aims to the Foundation with solid community support, we can get a promise of more developer support from them in turn. Perhaps. :)
Of course. I've already sent Cary the hunting rifle, the bear traps, the large cage, and the lasso. I expect he will be acquiring some new "volunteer" resources for us shortly.
In seriousness, with only two full-time devs, there's not much we can promise right now, but hiring more devs is very much on our agenda, and Cary _is_ your first point of contact for any cool ideas to generate volunteer dev excitement.
I was thinking about WMF paid developers. I know it's not happening tomorrow, but isn't there provision for WMF to pay more developers? I really don't see volunteer developers (a) materialising or (b) wanting to do such detailed core overhauls.
In my opinion, one of WMF's paid developers should be "WMF Community liaison developer". They would be the one that would look at, assess and implement specific project desires and requests.
thanks, Brianna