Well, both Hungary and Budapest aims to be the R&D center of the region. There are multiple government and munipal funds and programmes plus a lot of favouring policies on both administrative levels, including a full dedicated neighbourhood on the bank of the Danube, named Infopark (since 1996 [1])
Setting up a formally for-profit company who's only contractor would be the WMF (and/or other chapters) in BP can be funded well over 50% from non movement funds (or low/no interest loans) during the first few years and would be much much cheaper than any parts of Western Europe and most of the CEE. Doing so though WMHU or a separate non-profit way - probaly also doable. However having one such department for the sake of having one is a total waste of time, money and efforts everywhere in the World, so the main question is: are there enough projects that could make establishing such a department/spearate entity reasonable? Balázs [1] http://www.infopark.hu/lang/en/ > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, rupert THURNER > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If WMF is serious about letting development activities grow in other > > countries this might be taken into account in FDCs allocation policy. > > For my part, I'm happy to offer feedback to the FDC on plans related > to the development of engineering capacity in FDC-funded > organizations. I'm sure Wikimedia Germany, too, would be happy to > share its experiences growing the Wikidata development team. I'd love > to find ways to bootstrap more engineering capacity across the > movement, as so many of our shared challenges have a software > engineering component. If any folks on-list want to touch base on > these questions at Wikimania, drop me a note. :) > > Erik > > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
