[Foundation-l] Good news everyone (tax, servers, amsterdam and wikimedia germany)

Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax at gmail.com
Thu Nov 2 13:31:55 UTC 2006


Mathias Schindler wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Wikimedia Deutschland is happy to announce that the German tax office
> just confirmed the Verein's tax-exempt status. We now have the
> continuing ability to issue donation receipts until October 2011.
> 
> We're also glad to tell you that we've ordered 15 servers for more
> than 50.000 Euros to serve as squids in the NOC in Amsterdam. Even if
> this is not much in comparison to the whole Wikimedia server cluster,
> it will more than double the server capacities in Europe, which is a
> good start, isn't it?
> 

Hooray! Hardware! Does that mean... toolserver improvements? :)

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