We are getting down to brass tacks, finally.
The interests of WMF are not whether the immigration regulations changes "threaten the ability of the US to attract skilled talent into the country", but rather whether they have such an effect on the WMF and Wikimedia community ("WMF&Co."). If WMF and its lobbying allies carved out some kind of special treatment for a class of workers relevant to WMF&Co.
For WMF to have technical resource centers outside the US is fully consistent with the global nature of the community. Should it find it desirable to move its legal domicile or some or all of its administrative activities or more of its servers outside the US, it should do so.
The raising-the-drawbridge rhetoric simply clouds the efforts to determine and do what's actually best for WMF&Co.
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 4:56 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Mario,
Your argument is not convincing, because:
"The so called ‘travel ban’ that was introduced by President Trump and the re-evaluation of the H-1B visa programme threaten the ability of the US to attract skilled talent into the country (Mahmud, 2017; You, Bohannon, & Stone, 2017). Indeed, Microsoft has already opened a satellite office in Vancouver, Canada to mitigate the challenges in accessing key talent created by these changes, with many other tech companies reported to be considering their options (Dixon, 2017)" citing:
Mahmud, A. (2017). Looking beyond H-1B visas to attract technical talent. Harvard Business Review [online]. Retrieved June 26, 2017, from https://hbr.org/2017/06/looking-beyond-h-1b-visas-to-find-tech-talent
You, J., Bohannon, J., & Stone, R.(2017). Raising the drawbridge. Science, 355(6328), 896.10.1126/science.355.6328.896
Dixon, L. (2017). Tighter immigration policy pushes firms to open foreign satellite offices. Talent Economy [online]. Retrieved June 26, 2017, from http://www.talenteconomy.io/2017/06/19/tighter- immigration-policy-pushes-firms-open-foreign-satellite-offices/
Please see also:
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1e40517da152288614b980cf9087e7dd
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/opinions/trump-travel-ban- fuels-terrorism-clapper-geltzer-olsen/index.html
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/25/trumps-travel-ban- might-be-legal-but-its-bad-policy/
Sincerely, Jim
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 3:20 AM, Mario Gómez mariogomwiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 8:53 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com
wrote:
The is between arbitrary border security theater and allowing the Foundation to recruit and hire the best candidates. If the Foundation was silent on the matter, there would be less of a chance of retaining the right.
Not really. IMHO, the choice is between 1) acknowledging that we have a diverse community where everyone may choose to support an organization (other than the WMF) that matches their political position, or 2)
imposing
a very specific political position upon the community.
I consider the "best candidate" point a fallacy, since it works with the premise that human talent is so scarce that for every position in an organization there is a single or very few people in the world fit for
it.
I have seen the exact same point used so often to justify positions
against
diversity, equality or economic independence policies that I don't buy it anymore. There are many organizational policies that are more effective
to
increase the pool of candidates, such as being globally distributed
rather
than forcing relocation to the US, and they do not involve this kind of lobbying.
PS.- In order to avoid thread hijacking, I will not answer here your
points
about the other thread.
Best,
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