On 7 January 2016 at 22:45, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
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I am also struck by the fact that the grant is really a very paltry one, compared to the resources the Foundation is investing in this. The MediaWiki page on Discovery[2] lists sixteen people working on this. $250,000 would hardly begin to cover their salaries.
In fact, Risker said as long ago as May last year,[3] ...
I'm not sure what the standard is for grant applications is in the US, but I know locally that is it is extremely rare that allow the funding to be used to pay for salaries and the likes, Although the grant applications I used to have common knowledge were designed to have a physical end goal as per the agreement (example: Replace kitchen cabinets in a Scout den) compared to what will be software changes.