[Foundation-l] We should permit Flash video playback

[GerardM]

Hoi,
In the link it says: "Goals for Hardware (June 07 = $1,670,000 capital
expenditure)" So the budget for non capital expenses is $75.000 * 12 =
$900.000. The budget for hardware is $1.670.000,-. I fail to understand:
"Including the capital budget would only make the percentage even lower." To
me this is plain wrong.

My conclusion is that we spend more on capital expenses then on non-capital
expenses. My original conclusion was and is that when a partner pays for our
hosting, bandwidth and servers, it is a good thing. We should welcome more
offers for all inclusive hosting.

There are many other things we should spend money on. For instance to make
it possible to have a project for languages that requires a script that is
not or not completely in Unicode. We could acquire fonts that will be Free
so that we can provide fonts for those people that do not have a font for
the languages that they find content for. With some regularity we can get
content that needs major conversion to make it useful in our environment.

We should stop this unnecessary preoccupation with buying our own servers.
It prevents us from considering the other opportunities that we have that
help us realise our mission. Our mission is to provide information !!

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7/21/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 7/20/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > 17% of our non capital budget... well indeed... so why not consider the
> > capital budget as well ?? I did not exclude it, why do you ?
>
> Including the capital budget would only make the percentage even
> lower.  I didn't include it because it isn't expressed in the same
> format (as a yearly figure).
>
> > On 7/20/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 7/20/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hoi,
> > > > Storage and bandwith is what the bulk of the financial resources of
> the
> > > WMF
> > > > are spend on.
> > >
> > > Umm, "the bulk"?  See
> > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/What_we_need_the_money_for
> > >
> > > Bandwidth is 17% of the non-capital budget, and that percentage is
> > > shrinking over time.  Hardware costs are significant, but I know
> > > enough about computers to know that hard drives are only a small
> > > portion of hardware costs.
> > >
> > > > For our latest funding drive there was a budget for 1,4 / 1,5
> > > > million dollars.
> > >
> > > The numbers provided in the budget didn't even add up, and the figures
> > > 1.4 / 1.5 million are nowhere to be found.
> > >
> > > > We got slightly more than a million. When we find that the
> > > > Internet Archive is willing to host a substantial part of our
> > > requirements
> > > > it would make it possible to do more of the other things we budgeted
> > > for.
> > >
> > > I won't argue with that part of your statement.
> > >
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