Thanks for that. The toolserver is vital. if DE isn't going to support it properly, then we should. Doug
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonewiki@gmail.com wrote:
Something for Wikimedia UK to consider as it plans to give £10,000 to WMDE for the Toolserver's operations as per 2013 Annual Plan: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2013_Activity_Plan#Toolserver
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From: "DaB." WP@daniel.baur4.info Date: 24 September 2012 23:51:50 BST To: toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Toolserver-l] Future of the toolserver Reply-To: Wikimedia Toolserver toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hello all,
in these days WMDE (the chapter that finance the toolserver) is discussing the budget for the next year (2013); you can find it at [1]. At the moment there is no money for new toolserver-hardware in this budget and the CEO Pavel Richter is unwilling to change this ([2] in german) – because he fears that there will be a Wikilabs in 2014. It is not possible for me to run the toolserver for another year with the current hardware – you all know why. For this reason I will request a change of the budget at the general meeting at November, so there will be a vote about. If this vote should fail (and we get no money for new hardware), I am going to retire from my job as root at 30. December 2012. I'm not longer able to tolerant the behavior of the german chapter and the WMF in matter of the toolserver; I do this for free and for fun, and it is not longer fun.
Sincerely, DaB.
P.S: If you are in a board of a chapter that gives money to WMDE for the toolserver: Make sure that it will be spend for hardware.
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/2013_annual_plan_draft/... [2] meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Deutschland/2013_annual_plan_draft/de#Toolserver
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