[Foundation-l] Re: Information flow

Thu Aug 18 19:22:21 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:
> As I understand it, they're snowed under in general. (You try running a
> top-50 website and writing bespoke software for it on one and a half
> employees and a handful of volunteers.) Servers are excellent things, but
> another paid coder/sysadmin would (AIUI) do wonders for us. (Xenu help us
> if Kate needs to get a dayjob, for example.) I've mentioned this before as
> something that local chapter money could be put to good use on, though
> possibly it shouldn't be left waiting on that.

There was a discussion in August 2004 about implementing a bounty system
for MediaWiki development. Anthere ran a survey in july 2004 among
developers and published results on meta on August 25th 2004:

  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_payment_poll/results

About that time, I talked with Anthere about recruiting some of the
developers in the Foundation and having them working full time on
MediaWiki / server management. We agreed on something: monthly payment
would mean that less money would be spend on hardware and the foundation
will have to find a good way to get the needed money every month (not
paying employee is not something you want happening).

In some years, maybe, the foundation will have an office somewhere in
the world and have employees in charge of press, development or paper
version publishing. I would probably be among the firsts to post my
resume on [[Job offering]] :p

WikiMedia is probably not big enough for that yet.

cheers,

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