An'n 02.09.2010 21:23, hett Happy-melon schreven:
"Marcus Buck"wiki@marcusbuck.org wrote in message news:4C7FF181.7010501@marcusbuck.org...
The Foundation has a budget of 20 million $ this financial year. It plans to spend 8.972 million $ on 91 staff members. That's 98,593.41$ per person. So there are resources. They are just planned to be spend for other things.
The "salaries, wages and recruiting" category includes spending on pensions, healthcare, recruitment advertising, consultancy, and spending on employing contractors not counted in the permanent staff, AFAIK.
It's clear to me and I didn't say that's the sum that ends up on their accounts. But it's the sum that is spent on them.
In my opinion the Foundation should employ several developers who don't have any other task than improving Wikimedia...
Can I ask what you think the current technical team members are doing? :-P
The WMF is planning to almost double the size of the technical staff this year, including one role intriguingly titled "Bugmeister"... You're right that it's no longer accurate to say that the money is not there, but it's also rather unfair to suggest that what the current tech team are doing is solely firefighting. We have seen some great developments over the past year or two, and hopefully the pace will continue to accelerate.
I don't want to downplay the role of bugfixing or maintenance of the existing systems or all the other great stuff the tech team does. But a Bugmeister will not help us to leap forward with big innovations. For the big leaps we need people who dedicate full-time on a project.
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