Just to clarify: As I have stated many time before, Wikimedia Deutschland
is committed to run and maintain the Toolserver as long as Wikilabs are not
in position to offer the same level of service as the Toolserver. This
committment includes the purchase of new hardware, where necessary to keep
the servers running. As in the past years, I hope for support by other
entities in this project, both financially and with administration of the
Toolserver.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Pavel Richter
CEO
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tel.: +49 - 30 - 219 158 260
Twitter: @pavel
2012/9/25 Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonewiki(a)gmail.com>
Something for Wikimedia UK to consider as it plans to
give £10,000 to WMDE
for the Toolserver's operations as per 2013 Annual Plan:
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2013_Activity_Plan#Toolserver
Thehelpfulone
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone
Begin forwarded message:
*From:* "DaB." <WP(a)daniel.baur4.info>
*Date:* 24 September 2012 23:51:50 BST
*To:* toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Subject:* *[Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver*
*Reply-To:* Wikimedia Toolserver <toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
in these days WMDE (the chapter that finance the toolserver) is discussing
the
budget for the next year (2013); you can find it at [1]. At the moment
there is
no money for new toolserver-hardware in this budget and the CEO Pavel
Richter
is unwilling to change this ([2] in german) – because he fears that there
will
be a Wikilabs in 2014. It is not possible for me to run the toolserver for
another year with the current hardware – you all know why. For this reason
I
will request a change of the budget at the general meeting at November, so
there will be a vote about. If this vote should fail (and we get no money
for
new hardware), I am going to retire from my job as root at 30. December
2012.
I'm not longer able to tolerant the behavior of the german chapter and the
WMF
in matter of the toolserver; I do this for free and for fun, and it is not
longer fun.
Sincerely,
DaB.
P.S: If you are in a board of a chapter that gives money to WMDE for the
toolserver: Make sure that it will be spend for hardware.
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/2013_annual_plan_draft…
[2]
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Deutschland/2013_annual_plan_draft/d…
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