Previously Rob Levin wrote: > I will point out that we were linpeople.org when the Debian project joined > us, and linpeople.org began in 1995, well before the boom picked up speed. > And we're still here, after the dotcoms have pretty much folded.
Which still makes it a pretty recent network :) > If you'll look at the notes on http://freenode.info/contrib.shtml it may be > helpful. Our initial operating budget consists of two half-time slots, one > to work on coordinating the network, one to work on researching grants and > starting other projects. The pay scale will be low sysadmin. In addition, > we'll have a small hardware and office budget. No, it doesn't. I am still missing the answer to a simple question: the largest irc networks out there, which are a LOT larger then freenode, manage to run their network without any donations at all. So what makes freenode so special that it needs to hire volunteers? > The initial projects PDPC intends to work on are described on that page as > well. In addition to freenode (OPN), we'll be working on vocational, > educational and advocacy programs. How will it be different from FSF, EFF, SPI, LI, OSI and others? They already have people, funds, etc. Why create yet another non-profit? > If you'd like to have some idea of what's usual for the budget of a > non-profit corporation with a small number of employees, you should probably > look around on the canonical site for non-profits in the US, Guidestar > (http://www.guidestar.com/). I don't, I want a good raison d'etre for the existance of PDPC and its need to hire people. I haven't managed to see one so far. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ /[EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left occupied \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wiggy.net/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
