[email protected] wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> David Gerard wrote: >>> Our current markup is one of our biggest barriers to participation. >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> * Tim doesn't scale. Most of our other technical people don't scale. >>> *We have no resources and still run on almost nothing*. >>> >>> ($14m might sound like enough money to run a popular website, but for >>> comparison, I work as a sysadmin at a tiny, tiny publishing company >>> with more money and staff just in our department than that to do >>> *almost nothing* compared to what WMF achieves. WMF is an INCREDIBLY >>> efficient organisation.) >> > > In comparison $14m does seem highly profligate. Our R&D budget was £10m > (approx $16) in 2009, spent almost entirely on software development, and we > have over 160 software engineers working on our products. Remind me just how > many full time developers does WMF have?
These two pages should give you an approximate count: * http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
