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25 FTEs is an incredible achievement, and you should be very proud. The rewards are enormous - VideoLAN has a massive impact on human culture, more so than 99%

25 FTEs is an incredible achievement, and you should be very proud. The rewards are enormous - VideoLAN has a massive impact on human culture, more so than 99% of all businesses. Taking on VC to "grow" may be difficult, but is it something you really need to do? What you've built is amazing, and if you can sustain it at its current size, you'd be doing wonderful work. Endlessly chasing growth is a fool's errand, and you'll probably end up making compromises you never wanted to in order to get there. I think one piece of wisdom I'd share about sustainable FOSS for this thread is: be happy with a smaller size. A FOSS business is probably not going to be a unicorn, but hey, that's okay, isn't it? If you're building software you and your users love, and you're putting food on your table, then you've got something to be proud of.

umvi 6y ago
> 25 FTEs is an incredible achievement, and you should be very proud. I know this is a stupid question, but I tried googling and it wasn't obvious... what does FTE stand for? "Full Time Equivalent?" Does that mean they are paying for 25 full time employees?
- ddevault 6y ago
  Full-time employee, I presume.
  - sgummaluri 6y ago
    Yes, FTE means Full Time Emoloyee
    - mkl 6y ago
      Not exactly, it's "Full Time Equivalent". If two employees are working half-time, together they make up 1 FTE, but not 1 full time employee (because there are two of them).
- Closi 6y ago
  I usually take it to mean full time equivalent... It usually means either 25 full time employees, or a number of part time and full time staff that equal the paid hours of 25 full time employees. e.g. 50 part time employees that work half the typical working week would be 25 fte
- airstrike 6y ago
  It's full-time employee in this context, but if you ever need to search for an acronym definition again in the future try https://www.acronymfinder.com/FTE.html https://www.acronymfinder.com/FTE.html ;-)
- hckr_news 6y ago
  In my line of work, its full time engineers.

umvi 6y ago

> 25 FTEs is an incredible achievement, and you should be very proud. I know this is a stupid question, but I tried googling and it wasn't obvious... what does FTE stand for? "Full Time Equivalent?" Does that mean they are paying for 25 full time employees?

ddevault 6y ago
Full-time employee, I presume.
- sgummaluri 6y ago
  Yes, FTE means Full Time Emoloyee
  - mkl 6y ago
    Not exactly, it's "Full Time Equivalent". If two employees are working half-time, together they make up 1 FTE, but not 1 full time employee (because there are two of them).
Closi 6y ago
I usually take it to mean full time equivalent... It usually means either 25 full time employees, or a number of part time and full time staff that equal the paid hours of 25 full time employees. e.g. 50 part time employees that work half the typical working week would be 25 fte
airstrike 6y ago
It's full-time employee in this context, but if you ever need to search for an acronym definition again in the future try https://www.acronymfinder.com/FTE.html https://www.acronymfinder.com/FTE.html ;-)
hckr_news 6y ago
In my line of work, its full time engineers.