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Income Needed
These are good ideas, but let me try to explain what the sticky
problem is:
There is no exact "Income Needed".
If RootsWeb went into an absolute no-growth mode, we could handle
the current load with about $9,000/mo for bandwidth and about
$2,000/mo for unavoidable hardware repairs, or about $11,000 per
month.
To keep growing the way we have been, we need roughly $40,000 per
month.
If we wanted to get *serious* about bringing data online, we could
make good use of the funds we would have if every one of our users
became at least became a Member (about $240,000 per month). If we
had that kind of resources at our disposal, within only a few years
we could build a public library online as good or better than almost
any conventional library in America.
It sure would be great to have the entire US Census and the entire
British birth/death/marriage records online and the ... We could do
that if everyone just kicked in the cost of one birth certificate
each year. Cheers, B.
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Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
http://www.rootsweb.com/
P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich(a)rootsweb.com