"Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" <[email protected]> writes: > Le mercredi, 13 mars 2013 18.03:36, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>> For example, I live in the SF Bay Area. Fair market compensation here >> for the sort of senior IT person that we would elect DPL is *at least* >> $100,000 US per year, and at $100,000, people would generally be taking >> a substantial pay cut because they believed in the organization. > "the sort of senior IT person that we would elect DPL" is the part that > puzzles me: with both the extension of the DD status and the diversity > statement, we made it clear that we welcome all sorts of contributions > from all sorts of contributors: I, for one, would be very happy to elect > a DPL who is not necessarily that "senior IT person". I'm not hereby > saying that "senior IT persons" become bad DPLs or that other > professions have lower "costs" than the above figures, just that I think > it's very important to keep the "potential DPL"s set wide enough. Sorry, I didn't phrase that very well. What I was trying to get at is that the DPLs we select are skilled people. We encourage our best developers to run, and then we try to select the best person among that mix. The bar is rather higher than being a Debian developer. It's not necessarily higher along the metric of technical ability; it could be higher along the metric of people skills, or clarity of expression, or financial management, or organizational skills. But clearly we're trying to select among our stronger members, and I consider the general competence of DDs to already be quite high. (For example, when deciding whether to hire someone, knowing that they're a DD would be a substantial plus.) All of those skills, whether technical or organizational or social, are worth money. They make you a "senior" employee, which in US corporate lingo doesn't mean that you've been doing it for a long time, but rather is an indication of responsibility and pay grade. Anyone with any of that mix of skills that makes a good DPL could easily command a six-figure salary here if they so choose, in some job or another. (If their skills are primarily social and organizational, it might be a management instead of a technical position.) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
