<aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu> (Alex Yukhimets) writes: > > I propose that we start raising funds to pay for a part-time (4 hours > > per day) employee who's entire job is to manage the archive and do > > other miscellaneous maintenance tasks. I think you could probably get > > a qualified individual to do such stuff for ~$10k per year. I don't > > think we would have much trouble raising the funds, we already have a > > corporate structure set up -- and it would really ease the aggravating > > delays on our "critical path". > > > > Is that a hare-brained idea, or not? > > Jim, > > I like the idea, only numbers are a little "off", IMHO. > My first impression was that 4 hours a day is a bit too much for archive > maintainance, but then it is probably a good estimate, epecially if you > rephrase it as 20hrs/week :) Another thing is that I think it would be not > that easy (if not impossible) to find *qualified* individual for $10/hour. > Also, how would you know the person is qualified - phone interview? > Might result in a big mistake :) Also, you should also take into account > the employer overhead for paying salary (even for part-time worker, even > if consider this payment a "non-employee compensation"), in some bad cases > it can be up to 50%. How are you gonna "raise" this kind of money? > And of course, we should hear the Guy's opinion on this. My thinking is that somebody might go for the rather low compensation amount because they are basically volunteering - but the funding will enable them to put in the hours. The funding also adds a bit of accountability to the 'boss' (Ian) which a volunteer does not have. If we did that, I think Guy should get the first crack at the $10k. He probably counts as "qualified". :-) Of course, he'd have to be able to put in the hours and would have to act like a good little employee. :-) I think we're ready for this. Red Hat has a zillion employees, which is why they get their releases out fast. If we can afford 1/2 of an employee (I think we can) to speed up the critical grunt work, the whole project will benefit enormously. I'd be opposed to using Debian's clout to funding a lot of people who would otherwise be volunteers. But we do have a chronic problem with this particular "critical path" job, and we do have funds. It might help. Cheers, - Jim
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