Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?

Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:42AM (#27119483)

I wasn't saying not to do administrative tasks, but that they shouldn't be over half your entire company's work-hour allocation. Even with fundraising in there too.

Imagine if you had 3 employees and 2 of them were HR. That is not a good allocation of labor.

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Re:Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of m... by beaconstudios on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:51AM (#27119625)

If you're including sales in the bucket of administrative tasks (and fundraising is very much equivalent to sales), many successful companies are at or near 100% administrative tasks.

It does seem odd that so much of the work would go towards paying to keep looking for more money (fundraising for fundraising), but there are plenty of sales oriented organisations out there who don't make anything. It's just odd in this case that an OSS project seems to have gone on that direction.

I suspect nobody should be earning such a salary working on a project like that.

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