z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Our current markup is one of our biggest barriers to participation.
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- Tim doesn't scale. Most of our other technical people don't scale.
*We have no resources and still run on almost nothing*.
($14m might sound like enough money to run a popular website, but for comparison, I work as a sysadmin at a tiny, tiny publishing company with more money and staff just in our department than that to do *almost nothing* compared to what WMF achieves. WMF is an INCREDIBLY efficient organisation.)
In comparison $14m does seem highly profligate. Our R&D budget was £10m (approx $16) in 2009, spent almost entirely on software development, and we have over 160 software engineers working on our products. Remind me just how many full time developers does WMF have?