[diversity-talk] wikipedia parallels

[Darrell Fuhriman]

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> As to the the "employing staff" issue, I consider it a bit of a red herring. On the one hand it is not necessary for us to employ staff directly, on the other hand we have never had enough stable income to even remotely contemplate having full time staff (regardless of all spouting about "we have enough money lets just employ somebody" that we have heard multiple times). Financing and related issues is however something I expect the OSMF to attack in the upcoming months. That we are at the limits of what can be expected of unpaid volunteers in some cases is something I hope we are all acutely aware of.

This is probably a discussion for the talk list (but I'm not on that, because it's too much for me to keep up on). 

I said this at SotM.us and I'll say it again here. The first hire needs to be someone with a proven track record of raising money. Financial stability is incredibly critical, and a good person will more than pay for themselves.

Further, OSMF should be doing things that get coding projects financed – sponsoring more google summer of code projects, or going after grants like the ones Mapbox has gotten from the Knight foundation (which directly benefit OSM, but OSMF should be more involved.)

Anyway...

Darrell
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