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They spend half their $ on support and admin people. I can't honestly fathom how a site like arXiv could require 3 full time user support people with part time
by mbell 14y ago
They spend half their $ on support and admin people. I can't honestly fathom how a site like arXiv could require 3 full time user support people with part time students helping...
They have 1.5 FTE listed as devops for arXiv proper, the extra 0.75 in 2013 appears to be dedicated to this: http://invenio-software.org/ http://invenio-software.org/
The actual cost to 'run the servers' appears to be around $200,000 - $250,000.
The rest is going into support and I guess a full time person to just 'manage', whatever that means for a project of this type/scope...fund raise I guess? I would think that you'd have volunteer advisers helping with that given the nature of the project.
- michaelhoffman 14y agoYou guess? The linked report says 0.5 FTE for "management and administration." I think it's pretty unrealistic to think that managing 7 people alone wouldn't require even a half-time job. Yes, not to mention fundraising, as well as interacting with the advisory board, the volunteer moderators, outreach to users and policymakers. It's also unrealistic to think that running an article management system that has 6000-8000 submissions per month from users all over the world of varying technical ability couldn't occupy three full time user support staff.