An'n 02.09.2010 21:23, hett Happy-melon schreven:
"Marcus Buck"<wiki(a)marcusbuck.org>
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The Foundation has a budget of 20 million $ this
financial year. It
plans to spend 8.972 million $ on 91 staff members. That's 98,593.41$
per person. So there are resources. They are just planned to be spend
for other things.
The "salaries, wages and recruiting" category includes
spending on pensions,
healthcare, recruitment advertising, consultancy, and spending on employing
contractors not counted in the permanent staff, AFAIK.
It's clear to me and I didn't say that's the sum that ends up on their
accounts. But it's the sum that is spent on them.
In my opinion
the Foundation should employ several developers who don't
have any other task than improving Wikimedia...
Can I ask what you think the
current technical team members are doing? :-P
The WMF is planning to almost double the size of the technical staff this
year, including one role intriguingly titled "Bugmeister"... You're right
that it's no longer accurate to say that the money is not there, but it's
also rather unfair to suggest that what the current tech team are doing is
solely firefighting. We have seen some great developments over the past
year or two, and hopefully the pace will continue to accelerate.
I don't want
to downplay the role of bugfixing or maintenance of the
existing systems or all the other great stuff the tech team does. But a
Bugmeister will not help us to leap forward with big innovations. For
the big leaps we need people who dedicate full-time on a project.
Marcus Buck
User:Slomox