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(a)yahoo.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia main office
Reply-To: dmayer(a)wikimedia.org,
Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
--- Robin Shannon <robin.shannon(a)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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