[Kurd]

I like matrix as much as anyone else around here, and I would like to see it survive and prosper. That being said, if over 60% of the annual “expenses” of your nonprofit goes to “management” covering the salaries of four people who have other full time jobs, you really need to do a better job at managing finances.

[caslon]

Despite having been fairly critical of the Foundation elsewhere in this thread, I have to point out that this comment is wrong.

Josh is full-time employed by the Foundation, without another job.

It does seem pretty odd that they presented their expenses being just two million short of the PSF's expenses as useful for "putting things in perspective," given how much larger in scope the PSF is, especially after the cuts the Foundation made last year, however.

[bluesomewhere]

Thanks for your enthusiasm for Matrix! We're at a critical point in its evolution, but there's a lot of reason to be hopeful and excited about the future – and we'll be digging deeper into that in each of the following blog posts in the series.

I think the others have covered it pretty well, but just so you hear it from the source:

> if over 60% of the annual “expenses” of your nonprofit goes to “management” covering the salaries of four people who have other full time jobs,

That is an incorrect reading of the situation. The four full-timers who work for the Foundation do not have other jobs, so we are covering 100% of their salary. And that line item on the budget _also_ covers a bunch of part-timers, such as the SREs who keep the Matrix.org homeserver running.

If you have any other questions or concerns, I'm more than happy to speak to them :)

[Arathorn]

as the sibling says, this comment is just plain wrong. the four people funded by the foundation (MD, T&S, standards & advocacy) have no other source of salary than foundation donations.