[Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (itwas: "Communication plans for community engagement"

[Nathan]

Hi Romaine,

In the absence of any practical description of what an office on each
populated continent would do, or what concrete organizational role it
would fulfill (other than "bringing communities together"), it seems
unlikely that the WMF is going to immediately reverse its relatively
recent decision to follow a strategy directly contrary to what you
propose. The model that Quim outlines makes much more sense; the work
of the movement can be dispersed more naturally when stakeholders take
on projects and initiatives that the WMF can support with grant
funding. These projects have evidently had far and away more success
than either "general funding" of WMF affiliates or expanding the WMF
itself into far-away lands.

~Nate