I disagree, it *is* fair to postpone projects for the good of and to insure the longevity of the organization as a whole. Otherwise, the effects of these projects will be short-lived.
Cbrown1023
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 9:42 AM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [announcement] new staff member in businessdevelopment
On 5/20/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, What Anthony conveniently forgets is how we are going to pay for it all.
Pay for what? The stuff that's being done now? Donations are going to pay for it. For giving a datafeed to anyone in the world? The people receiving the datafeeds will pay for it.
Imagine being able to get cheap or even free hosting on a multi-user server which has a live datafeed. Toolserver has given us a glimpse of the possibilites, now imagine if thousands of people had shell access.
Yes, we want to get as much expose our data in as many ways as possible. That is something we agree on. Fact is that the WMF is underfunded, it
could
do much more if it had money to act on its convictions.
Underfunded/overfunded is relative, but I do agree with you that the WMF could do much more if it had more money. But it's not fair to artificially restrict current projects in order to get that money.
Anthony
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