On 26/05/07, Kurt Maxwell Weber kmw@armory.com wrote:
On Saturday 26 May 2007 12:18, Gary Kirk wrote:
In an ideal, money-tree world, yeah.
A single server would suffice, really...just look at the traffic in the Wikimedia-related IRC channels on Freenode yeah. The financial burden would hardly be noticeable. If nothing else, just pay $60 a month to rent a dedicated server or colo and administer it from there.
The WMF has made donations to Freenode before (from one 501(c)3 to another) because (a) IRC is useful to us (even if not wanting to take control) and (b) they have the sk1llz at running a huge bastard IRC network so we don't have any wheels to reinvent from doing it ourselves for no good reason.
- d.