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On 9/22/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 9/22/07, Ben McIlwain cydeweys@gmail.com wrote:
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Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 22/09/2007, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah. Financially speaking, moving outside the US would be a big hit (now and in the near future) simply due to exchange rates, if nothing else.
I don't see why exchange rates would make much difference. The WMF recieves donations in all kinds of currencies - just spend the pounds in the UK and the dollars in the US. Exchange rates only matter if you are exchanging currency.
That's not quite how it works. The donations that are coming in aren't going to be changing, so WMF will still be getting most donations in USD. Except, because of the poor exchange rate, it is much more expensive to do just about everything in the UK, including renting flats, renting office space, buying food, buying bandwidth, etc. The donations wouldn't go nearly as far.
Bottom line is that the cost of living in London, in US dollars, is expensive. Of course, the cost of living in San Francisco, in US dollars, is also expensive. It's not really an exchange rate thing so much as a cost of living thing. A weaker dollar will lead to higher rent in San Francisco too, although maybe it'll take a few months to kick in. Anyone have the cost per square foot for office space in San Francisco vs. London?
Wikia is in the San Francisco area. Any chance they'd be willing to donate some office space to Wikipedia?
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