https://www.w3.org/People has a list of 57 people and what their role is - it's not clear to me if they are all full time paid staff but I think most of them are.
Your staff page[1] doesn't show anybody in business / marketing roles. How do you handle website production, forums, marketing, legal, etc without dedicated staff? Even with a small group making a game engine[2] we're finding that those issues that pretty much require a full-time person.
Well there's a group of people in the Core Team. I know at least one of them has been hired by their company (LinkedIn) to work on the framework full time, as their app (and subsequent business) is built on top of it, so it makes sense to have someone paid to focus on it.
But they do have to employ moderators, admins, marketing, sales, software developers, IT... as well as paying for hosting, bandwidth, office space, equipment...
What does missing one specific class of employees really matter in the broader scope?
The W3C CEO won't be working for money, they'll be working for the opportunity and the purpose. There's relatively few people who bring the necessary qualifications to do that job, too.
Getting deja vu reading this several years ago. I think someone, maybe Stack Overflow, actually did this as part of their hiring process. I think the devs that were brought in were even paid for their work during this time.
It's funny that just today I was visiting Cloudflare Our Team page[1] and I noticed that "our" dear jgrahamc is the only one listed as "Programmer" compared to dozens of XYZ Engineer :)
It sounds like you guys were hired to be both Lisp programmers for the site infrastructure and moderators. Presumably as the site grows, you will need to scale more of you.
So why not hire the guy to work on this as a full time employee? Stripe / Facebook / Google or even Mozilla should have the money to hire him as full time and only work on GnuPG.
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