Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 06:45:47PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 16:41 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > we
> > raised 40 thousand dollars on a part time system administrator, and
> > that's a fraction of the cost of a full time developer.
>
> $40,000 is a reasonable salary for a full-time American developer, as
> long as he's not located someplace with a stupid cost of living like San
> Francisco or New York or LA. Of course it's not a competitive salary,
> but we're a nonprofit and it would be wasteful for us to pay a
> competitive salary. It's not like we're competing for talent....

Having 40k USD doesn't mean you get to spend that all on a developer. At
least in Europe there is a huge amount of overhead (factor of 2.0-2.5
IIRC for .nl).

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Regards,
Olav