Ill be blunt here, Dispenser's existing tools do not need more than a few hundred megabytes of space for storage. He however does have an idea for a set of tools (or one super massive depending on your perspective) which is a resource hog and will need a consult with WMF legal to OK it. Up until today Dispenser failed to articulate what his idea was or what resources he needed for his idea. I did some basic math and your looking at about 15 thousand dollars US as a starting point for the project. Dispenser falls into the standard category of a programmer who doesnt work well with non-programmers and sucks at writing specs/documentation.
However I spent some time with him and chiseled out a few things, have a grasp on exactly what Dispenser wants to accomplish and the resources necessary to do it. (probably upwards of 25-30k dollars) I wrote up a rough outline and both shorter term and longer term goals of the project. I have already forwarded it to Coren for review, feedback and comments. I suspect something more official will be announced after a quick sanity check by the legal team. At which point I suspect it will be thrown up for community discussion, and legal will be doing a more in depth review behinds the scene.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 8:00 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think it's a donation if you're getting something (a survey) in
return.
How could the Foundation possibly not benefit from understanding contributors' opinions about general strategic goals for improving participation?
I also want development of accuracy review. If there are any reasons that the Foundation would not benefit from that, the survey, or a reflinks cache which includes enough room to fit a category adjacency map in, then please bring them to my attention.
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