[Foundation-l] Fundraising and site notice

[Jerome Banal]

Hello Anthony,

Just guesses:

June is taken as a reference because the budget is made from June to June.
Accountants are giving advices for fiscal year so they will be checked at
the end of the fiscal year. In June 2007, they will look again at figures
and see if there are indeed X months of cash reserve. Based on "current
expense", those of June 2007 .

If you look at
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/28/Wikimedia_2006_fs.pdf,
you will see that "Internet hosting" (I guess it is hosting + bandwidth) was
40k$ in 2005 (June 2004 to June 2005, I presume). It was 189k$ in 2006 (June
2005 to June 2006?).
It was already more than a 4fold increase. I don't know much about bandwidth
cost, I have never had to deal with these kind of budget. I can presume that
higher bandwidth links are more costly cause they don't sell much of
them...Three years ago, a home fiber link was awfully costly compared to an
ADSL2+, although delivering just a few time more bw. Simply because you had
millions of the later and just a handful of the former.


Please just assume good faith, the presentation may be a bit fuzzy but I
doubt the board is trying to diddle us and I think they have work hard to
define these goals :)

Regards,
Jerome


2007/1/10, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org>:
>
> On 1/10/07, Jerome Banal <jerome.banal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Take the "Monthly expense budget" and don't forget to add the "June '07"
>
> > parts; that will give you the expected monthly expense budget for June,
> > which should be the figure you quoted.
>
> Did you try it?  Because I did several times, and I only just now
> figured out what must be going on.
>
> Monthly expense budget $75,500
>
> Goals for bandwidth: ???  Right now the budget is $12,500.  There are
> at least four different figures for the new "budget" (do you see why
> this can't be called a budget?).  I see $50,000, $30,000, $62,000,
> $100,000, and $74,000 (which you get when you calculate
> $137,000-$75500+$12,500).  So let's go with $74,000, and pretend it
> makes sense that bandwidth costs will go up sixfold?
>
> Goals for hosting and operations: $38,000.  But then the calculation
> that is made acts as though this is in addition to the current
> $13,900.  So let's call it $52,000 total.  Hosting costs are expected
> to nearly quadruple, I guess.
>
> Goals for hiring: $100,000.  Let's assume this means $100,000 in
> addition to the current goals.  Now we get the magic $275,000 number.
>
> Am I getting this right?  Is this the actual budget for the next
> fiscal year?  Is there a reason this can't just be put in a normal
> form of a budget?
>
> > The reserve is of course on budget we
> > will need in the future, not on the current budget.
> >
> Presumably, though I would also think it would be the immediate
> future, not 5 months in the future.  I also still don't see a budget
> for FY '07-08.  I see a bunch of "goals".  So if the goal is to spend
> $275,000/month, I guess the budget will be to spend even more, in case
> the goal isn't reached.
>
> > Budget is rising quickly because we have more and more people coming
> looking
> > at WP, so we need bigger bandwidth, because we need more people to help
> on
> > MediaWiki as it is becoming more complex and we see more and more useful
> > features missing, etc.
> >
> Traffic is not going to quadruple (or increase 6-fold) in 5 months.
> It's taken about a year for it to merely double.
>
> > PS: By the way, it is indeed "at least". If it was not diffused before,
> it
> > has been diffused at that date.
>
> Except, I'm saying it wasn't diffused at that date.  In fact, $900,000
> is between the low and the high reserve, so it isn't even diffused at
> this date according to those numbers.
>
> > So you might have heard about it before
> > elsewhere, but in any case you have /at least/ been able to heard about
> it
> > at that date (after that, you can have missed it, but that's another
> > problem).
> >
> I haven't at least been able to heard about...huh?  What are we talking
> about?
>
> Anthony
>
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