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They meant cash turnover, not personnel turnover, I think. As in more money was coming in/going out, which led to cashflow issues.

That makes sense. I misread that badly.

I read it exactly as you did the first time through; it was unclear as written.

They are hashing out the details on the email thread [1]. I don't know how correct it is but this post [2] in particular tries to give some numbers:

>You mention an estimate of $400k as annual turnover for the OPW, which (according to the most-recently available annual report that I can find, the 2012 one at https://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports/) is very close to the turnover of the Foundation as a whole ($418k income and $409k expenditure). Those 2012 numbers include $106k of Women's Outreach expenses, so the turnover of non-OPW Foundation tasks seemed to be somewhere in the region of $300k.

So apparently it caused turnover by being a huge source of growth.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/...

[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general...

Increasing turnover it the whole point of internship programs.