[Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

[David Gerard]

On 5 March 2011 20:38, Sebastian Moleski <info at sebmol.me> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:31 PM, church.of.emacs.ml <church.of.emacs.ml@
> googlemail.com> wrote:

>> It's hard to tell. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it should be
>> smaller, but it is obvious that we need to think about stop growing at
>> some point (and in my opinion sooner than later).

> You allude to an interesting point here: growth. Why do you think growth
> needs to stop, and why sooner than later?
> I would venture that growth, or rather size, is defined by what the
> Foundation wants to accomplish and what resources are needed for that. Would
> it be inherently wrong if, for example, WMF were an organization with a
> headcount of 10,000 and a budget of a billion dollars, if that's what it
> takes to accomplish the mission, e.g. allow every human to freely share in
> the sum of all knowledge?


Indeed. Although it's quite possible Tobias is correct and WMF can
achieve the mission with its current budget and staff, I'd like to see
those who think so give their map of how they get from the goal to the
current size or just over the current size. Show all working.


- d.