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[Anthere]

Stop trolling Anthony my dear.

If (when ?) you are nice, I'll show you where the budget is published 
(publicly :-)).

Ant

Anthony wrote:
> On 12/28/06, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Based on the financial reality of needing to raise more money, for hardware,
>>software, bandwidth and staffing (in broad strokes), what is the solution to
>>question of financial support?  Dig deeper?  Blame the community of editors
>>(as opposed to readers) for not donating enough?  Get the starving college
>>kid to give $3 instead of $2?
>>
> 
> How about getting the starving college kid with the 300 gig hard drive
> sitting idly on a T1 connection in his dorm to lend some of that spare
> hardware, software, bandwidth, and staffing directly?
> 
> Eh, I shouldn't waste my time mentioning this to you.  When the forks
> start coming, and it looks like that time is getting close, one of
> them will figure it out.
> 
> 
>>If one day of corporate matching brings us on the order of $60,000 per
>>company, that is an enormous advantage over asking the community for more.
>>Don't you think?
> 
> 
> Eh, right now it's just taking the money from one group of donors
> instead of another.  What would be the enormous advantage would be to
> not need the money in the first place.
> 
> 
>>If we have a $100,000 per month bandwidth bill later in
>>2007, it will still need to be paid.
> 
> 
> Is that your current estimate of bandwidth costs?
> 
> 
>>I will assume you would rather the
>>projects stay online than die.
> 
> 
> The projects will stay online no matter what happens to the Wikimedia
> Foundation.
> 
> 
>>If we buy another 300 servers, where should
>>the money come from?
> 
> 
> You shouldn't buy another 300 servers in the first place.
> 
> 
>>It seems clear that the reality here is beyond some
>>level of understanding with at least a portion of the  people who read this
>>list.
>>
> 
> Without access to the proposed budget, yeah, it's hard to know exactly
> where the money is being wasted.
> 
> Anthony