Re: Hiring a part-time sysadmin?

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi Murray,

Selon Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>:
...
> Meanwhile, our sysadmins seem overworked, causing understandable delays
> for simple requests. Now seems like a good time to pay someone so that
> requests for new accounts, mailing lists, bugzilla products, etc, get
> done almost immediately.

It's a nice idea, based on a false assumption, I'm afraid.

> The Board's finances seem to be OK right now, and I know that advisory
> board members have generally been ready to contribute for specific
> things that help the project.

Our finances are balanced. That means we have roughly the same aount coming in
as we have going out - except for some savings that we've made over the last
year by not having any full-time employee (these are one-off savings, as soon as
we hire someone we'll be balanced again, but with a slightly bigger bank account
balance).

So I don't think we have the money to hire a part-time sysadmin, and I think
we'd have difficulty finding one (to work part-time). It's certainly something
worth thinking about, but the answer will likely be "we can't (yet) afford it".

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
Lyon, France