On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Certainly not large amounts of funds any time soon. If it could be > done for $5k, I'd recommend doing it with WMF funds.
I'm pretty sure buying another server or offering a slightly higher salary on the next job offering or just leaving the money to accumulate interest would do considerably more to advance Wikimedia's mission than this. > I might also > recommend doing it with WMF funds in 20 years when we have a massive > endowment paying all our running costs and get billions of dollars > donated a year. I think there are still going to be much more useful things to spend thousands of dollars on. The utility of this project is virtually zero from any perspective. Of course, since all of Wikimedia's data is freely available, anyone else who'd like to store it in some durable form for any sum of money is absolutely free to do so. Or they could give Wikimedia a directed grant. But it would be a waste of Wikimedia's money. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
