[HCoop-Discuss] Financial situation

[Adam Chlipala]

Michael Potter wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:39:47AM -0700, Adam Chlipala wrote:
>   
>> Michael Potter wrote:
>>     
>>> Which are we, exactly? I can't tell. It's looking more and more like
>>> an entity designed to provide jobs for a few people. How big do we
>>> need to get to pay salaries? IMO, too big, too fast.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Now hooooold on there a moment.  Where has there been _any_ sign that we 
>> are evolving in ways designed to provide even _one_ person with "a job"?
>>     
> These things together seem to point towards current admins becoming
> the paid admins. 
>   

That is very different from claiming that we are making changes 
_primarily_because_ we want to create jobs for people. The existence of 
paid positions is a consequence of wanting to provide better service.

What you are saying is analogous to this:
- If a company is thinking of expanding, and
- This will increase the number of pencils in use, so
- They will need to hire someone specifically to sharpen pencils, then
- We see alarming signs that the company is expanding explicitly to 
create a pencil-sharpening job!

P.S.: As I see things, the paid admins will all have to work at a single 
physical office. The geographical diversity of the current set of 
volunteers, not to mention our diverse career aspirations, in fact make 
it very _unlikely_ that _any_ of us will ever be paid.