Poor, Edmund W wrote:

Why can't we provide some sort of stipend for Brion Vibber? If my occasional glances at the Wikitech mailing list are any indication, it seems like he's doing at least as much work as Larry ever did.

Can you hire him for Wikimedia, and let him do extra work for Bomis -- or should it be the other way around?

Does he need a job? I have to confess that I have no idea what he does, even. :-(

But, yeah, I'm all for it. The funny thing is, though, that people will gladly volunteer to do stuff that we couldn't begin to afford to pay them to do. I can't imagine what Brion must charge for his day job, I hope it's a lot more than the Wikimedia Foundation can afford to pay. :-)

--Jimbo