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[GerardM]

Hoi,
Did you not notice the list of vacancies that have been posted for some time
now ?? Did you not have plenty of time to react to that ?? It is just one
example of the things where the WMF wants to go... Did you not notice that
Florence and Jimmy have been stating for more then a year now that we want
to do more and better for African languages ?? Are there not many major
languages and cultures where we do not have the presence that is implied it
what we aim for ??
Thanks,
    GerardM

On 10/23/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>
> Erik Moeller wrote:
> > On 10/23/07, Matthew Britton <matthew.britton at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Also, what is silly about threatening a fork? Is that not
> >> one of the key arguments (in theory at least) for free
> >> content, and thus the whole point of the Wikimedia
> >> projects' existence? Or does the Foundation no longer care
> >> about that either?
> >>
> >
> > I understand your frustration, but it is misplaced. This is not about
> > "the Foundation vs. the community", it is about a community trying to
> > find the best ways to sustain itself.
> >
>
> I've been here for nearly 5 years and *I'm* not even sold on that, so I
> could see why not everyone else is either. The servers at
> *.wikipedia.org are not going to shut down if the fundraiser comes short
> of funds, so "sustain itself" is not quite the right word. Furthermore,
> if we were anywhere near having to shut down due to lack of funds to pay
> bandwidth bills, there are plenty of folks standing by ready to make
> major in-kind donations; Jimmy himself mentioned on this mailing list
> that he's had conversations with Google where they've told him they're
> ready to offer anytime we feel like asking.
>
> So it sounds like the money is needed for something else besides simply
> sustaining the site, yet this has never really been "sold" to the
> community in a way that most of us are on board with.
>
> -Mark
>
>
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