Wow, that's great!
On 10/06/2011 05:13 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
Is the grant restricted or unrestricted? (Is there a copy of the agreement somewhere?)
I'm not sure if it's any more restricted than the summary says:
The purpose of the grant is to fund major investments in the technology infrastructure that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects, in order to successfully serve their growing readership.
So basically "Tech Operations department".
WMF's spending plan says $12.4M on Technology 2011-2012: http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File:2011-12_Wikimedia_Foun... BUT, I suspect the majority of that $12.4M will go to Features/General Engineering, not Tech Operations.
Oh, well, we could always use another data center ;P
--Tobias