Anthony wrote:
The budget wasn't met last time either, was it?
Looking back it seems
like less than half the budget was raised during the entire fiscal
year, and the foundation only spent about half of that ($1.4 million
raised, only 0.7 million in expenses).
Only 0.7 million in expenses? Where is this stated?
As the person who made the technical budget, and did a detailed analysis
of costs of the past fiscal year, I can tell you that we spent quite a
bit more than that in the technical department alone... All directly
related to our still exponential growth.
These supposed budgets look completely unrealistic to
me. I assumed
that was intentional. Ask for way more than you need, and then settle
for half that. It's a common strategy.
...and certainly not the case here.
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Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org>
System & Network Administrator, Wikimedia Foundation