On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 December 2010 22:09, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> If WMF wanted to spend less money, the fundraiser would have much lower >>> profile, right? :) >>> I somehow want us to think about our users and service as primary >>> objective, not just organizational issues. >> >> When you budget 2 million for internet hosting, and 9 million for >> salaries and benefits, it's bound to raise some eyebrows, I think. > > Only from people that don't realise what is involved in hosting a top > 5 website. Just $9m on salaries and benefits? That's a drop in the > ocean compared to the money spent on salaries for other similar sized > sites, even if you exclude the salaries of people involved in their > content generation (which we obviously get for free). > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
Yes, and only 4 times what the actual internet hosting of a top5 web site costs. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l