2010/12/4 Pedro Sanchez <[email protected]>: > When you budget 2 million for internet hosting, and 9 million for > salaries and benefits, it's bound to raise some eyebrows, I think.
This does not include the $3.2M of planned capital expenditures (mostly servers and other equipment), which is a large cost increase relative to last year primarily due to a new primary data-center build-out so we don't risk going down for weeks if there's a major issue in our Tampa facility (and so we can designate Tampa to be a secondary, since its quality of service is insufficient to keep it as the primary). It also does not include operations engineering staffing, which is one of the largest staffing increases, so we actually have people to take care of ordering, deploying and maintaining servers and equipment, regular production of backups, dumps, etc. There's a lot of non-hosting related salaries (the single largest of which is other engineering work, such as code review, feature development and QA), but you're misinterpreting the hosting numbers (we should make this a bit clearer in the way we label and display the numbers). Although WMF is not a technology organization (it develops important community programs as well), the share of technology spending has increased in the 2010-11 budget from 38% to 48%. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
