[Foundation-l] We should permit Flash video playback

[GerardM]

Hoi,
17% of our non capital budget... well indeed... so why not consider the
capital budget as well ?? I did not exclude it, why do you ?
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7/20/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 7/20/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > Storage and bandwith is what the bulk of the financial resources of the
> WMF
> > are spend on.
>
> Umm, "the bulk"?  See
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/What_we_need_the_money_for
>
> Bandwidth is 17% of the non-capital budget, and that percentage is
> shrinking over time.  Hardware costs are significant, but I know
> enough about computers to know that hard drives are only a small
> portion of hardware costs.
>
> > For our latest funding drive there was a budget for 1,4 / 1,5
> > million dollars.
>
> The numbers provided in the budget didn't even add up, and the figures
> 1.4 / 1.5 million are nowhere to be found.
>
> > We got slightly more than a million. When we find that the
> > Internet Archive is willing to host a substantial part of our
> requirements
> > it would make it possible to do more of the other things we budgeted
> for.
>
> I won't argue with that part of your statement.
>
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