On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Domas Mituzas <midom.li...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi! > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but here's what I can gather: Total > > spending was > > $1.7 million less than budgeted. Tech spending was $1.7 million > > less than > > budgeted. And $1.7 million was sitting in the bank accounts at the > > end of > > the fiscal year. > > We did not spend on hardware, because, well, I explained already in > some other email. > We did not reallocate the money to hire lots of developers because we > didn't know how the hardware spending will look like. > And that has proven to be a huge misjudgment. > I'll fix the dumps for minimum wage plus daycare for my two kids. > > ;-) Are you for these conditions for other projects too? > For tech projects that I find interesting, and can do from home, sure. Daycare alone is $80/day, though. > I don't know about that. It's a pretty cool problem, it's just a > > difficult > > one to solve. Or maybe it's a cool problem because it's difficult > > to solve. > > I find it very boring problem myself. Probably thats because I'm > spoiled by really cool problems at work, or maybe somewhat cooler > problems at Wikimedia ;-) > Could be. But then, I'm probably interested in different types of problems than you. And I'm not sure you've considered this problem in the same way that I have (I'd like to modify the compressed files "in place", though that short description doesn't really capture the solution). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
