[Foundation-l] Fundraising "Bugging for Dollars" (request for comment form WMF)

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David Gerard wrote:
> On 21/03/2008, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>  Currently WMF has extremely capable developers under the payroll,
>>  though, only few of them.
>>  So far development time has been most expensive resource to allocate,
>>  and there're always important projects to be worked on.
>>  So, there're strategic goals, and there're operational goals.
>>  Now, how big should be donation, to support one feature or another?
>>  In software industry, the pay-for-feature development is charged at
>>  least 200$ per man-hour, so our internal development costs are
>>  slightly lower %)
>>  Add operational expenses costs afterwards - they increase too.
>>  So this 'I pay 10$ gimmie features' idea doesn't really work, and is
>>  actually impossible to administrate. Ending up with 1000 different
>>  budgets for 1000 different features doesn't really work.
>>  To make this viable, it has to make serious 'profit' (the cost of
>>  allocating developer who has been working on #1 project to do #100
>>  priority project is quite high, so there has to be quite high
>>  motivation for it).
>>     
>
>
> Oh well :-)
>
> Hmm. What about beg notices all over Bugzilla? "Support MediaWiki
> development: give us MONEY!" or similar. Just for a single dev pool.
>
>
> - d.
>
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This I could also support. :)

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