[Foundation-l] Technical aspects of forking (was: 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter)

[Ray Saintonge]

On 09/17/11 8:52 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 17 September 2011 15:50, Kim Bruning<kim at bruning.xs4all.nl>  wrote:
>> My first instincts for de.wikipedia would be to note down
>> de.wikipedia's usage statistics, get a bunch of techies together, and
>> all go have a nice chat with say hetzner.de, to figure out roughly what
>> things will cost. You can always start a bit small and work your way
>> up.
> Starting small is *most definitely* the way to go. Citizendium burned
> through enough funding for *20 years* in three years by ridiculously
> overestimating their server needs.
>
>
Optimism is a key characteristic of those who believe they have a killer 
site.

Ray