On 6/6/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
It wasn't at all clear that it was intended for the german board... but what is clear to me is that everyone outside of Wikimedia DE is being systematically excluded from status updates, not to mention decision making.
I don't share this perception. Decision making should belong (and belongs, AFAIK) to the people who have the technical experience. The board of the Verein has not the technical experience.
I especially got a laugh out of the implication that wikimedia de needs to own the equipment in order to avoid the "technical problems" (mismanagement in my eyes) which we've faced up to now... But perhaps I misunderstood, my German is not very good.
If I interpreted Daniels mail correctly, it has to do with this tax legal reasons. Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. is a charity which poses some restrictions on how we spend money. From that perspective, spending money in upgrading a server we own *could* (IANAL!) be easier than spending money in upgrading a server we do not own. "Own" here only applies to the formal construction, not the actual question who has root or the keys to the rack.
If it is your intention to make toolserver a DE only resource, then lets be upfront about it... It would likely be much easier to only maintain replication for DE resources than DE resources plus other broken resources.
I think it is consensus that the toolserver should be multilingual as far as possible.
Mathias