For me, who live in Swiss, to see that Washington could be the seat of the main office of WF I automatically could think about a link between it and US government. I know that european thought is very strange! but for a non-political association this could be a bad choice.
Ilario
-- Messaggio originale -- Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 20:51:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia main office Reply-To: dmayer@wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@wikimedia.org
--- Robin Shannon robin.shannon@gmail.com wrote:
Washington is (and more importantly is thought of as) an *American* not international administrative centre. It would send a bad message to the rest of the world if we moved there.
That is symbolism over substance and thus not a valid argument in my book. Besides, D.C. itself is too expensive, the office would be in a suburb (preferably reasonably close to a Metro station).
-- mav
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