Cutting costs
Posted Aug 1, 2002 19:33 UTC (Thu) by
pm101 (subscriber, #3011)
Parent article:
Is it really The End?
I'm not sure if adding lots of 'goodies' for subscribers is the right
approach. The problem, as I see it, is you have a staff of five people,
which will take about $180,000 to sustain in troubled times (long-term,
leading to you losing people), and really, more like $300,000. The weekly
paper is quite long.
There's two approaches to reaching profitability:
* Increase income
* Cut costs
We've addressed the former in pretty exhaustive detail, but I think LWN
may want to eventually do both. The publication is gold, and I'd rather
have a little less gold than none at all.
I wouldn't fire anyone, but if one or two of the non-Corbet people get a
better job offer at some point, it might make sense for them to take the
job and leave a shorter publication behind. I would prefer not to
completely lose any of the first five sections, but scaling back the
length of LWN might make sense. Cut out Linux-in-Business, shorten
Linux-in-the-news to maybe links to three articles a week, and cut the
Distributions and Development sections in half.
If you want to add anything, maybe reinstate a two-paragraph version of
on-the-desktop, but otherwise I wouldn't add anything that involves any
amount of labor to sustain.
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