On 18 June 2012 19:39, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 June 2012 19:15, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> > wrote: >> On 18 June 2012 18:12, Thomas Morton <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> [things that make sense to me] >> >> I'd also like to see quantification. Is the current provable need 0.7 >> of a person or 1.5 persons? I'm still enough of a mathematician to >> think that it's unlikely to be a whole number (and I guess Tom D. is >> too). > > As a mathematician, I agree with you. Experience, however, tells me > that there is always enough work for between 10% and 20% more people > than you have! If you have enough work for 0.7 FTE, then as soon as > you hire someone you'll find another 0.5 FTE worth of work appears. I > don't think there is any real risk of hiring someone and not being > able to find useful things for them to do.
As a recovering mathematician I say - some people will quibble about anything. Also where were you in 2010? Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
