Giving tax payer money to a non-profit that pays its executive 100k a year is questionable (you never see that kind of salary in germany), specially when the foundation's expenses keep growing while their revenue decreases, it is poorly managed
Here is the Glassdoor page for "software manager" in Germany:
https://www.glassdoor.de/Gehälter/software-manager-gehalt-SR...
As you can easily see, the job pays up to 150k, with 100k on average.
Where is the truth?
If a non-profit hires a janitor, should they pay the janitor less?
As someone who runs a tiny hyper-local non profit (we take in a few thousand $s a year), running a non profit requires as much, if not more, work than running a for profit business.
One reason why we have such awful non profits is that they don’t pay enough to compete for the best talent.
Being the trust-fund offspring of a deity, he had it made from birth. But that's not how the story goes.
It shows humility and puts you on the same level of vulnerability as others. It's what separates you from the gentry. You give everything of yourself to help others, to prove you're one of them, and inspire others to help in kind.
Of course the org can make money and keep it for later.
Which land and business domain is that?
really? Executives are quite important in making sure the organization they're in charge of is well run, efficient and reaches the stated goals.
Paying a low salary to an executive for a non-profit will merely make the non-profit less efficient at achieving their goals. Just because it's a non-profit, doesn't mean the workers in the organization should be self-sacrificing their own salary (by accepting a lower-than-market rate).
Now, there's a point to be made where if an executive's achievements or effectiveness at directing the organization is poor, they need to be booted, or at least have performance incentives etc.
As for the grant being tax-payer funded, i don't see why it is any worse a form of spending than welfare.
So 100k salaries are totally a thing in Germany for white collar employees.
Certainly not a reason to criticize the German government for this great initiative.
It also set a good example for startup folks that use a lot of open source and in most cases give nothing back.
On the "life changing" aspect, consider this thread is about German market and therefore cost of living. Given that, I'm confident to say 100k is not life changing. Comfortable salary range? yes absolutely, but not something you can just get this amount once and be sorted for life.
The context here is completely different though, we are talking about specialized white collar jobs in the German/european market.
I can't speak specifically for Germany, but in the UK Germany has a reputation for paying better, and €100k would be pretty par-for-the-course for a senior developer, and stingy for a staff/principal engineer.
(Yes, I too was surprised to learn that Gnome is now run by a self-described Shaman with no engineering experience)
You need to work on your negotiating skills
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/43572...
Then you haven't been paying attention for what your GEZ fees are being spent on.
For an executive this is a low salery, even in Germany.
Sorry, but simply not true. You might want to look into statistics and not extrapolate from your vicinity.
https://www.glassdoor.de/Geh%C3%A4lter/prokurist-gehalt-SRCH...
And we are including müllers it services here