On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I like the ideas about setting up a variety of remote clusters as well as remote individual employees. Google, Microsoft and Facebook have remote clusters, and I'm sure that many other companies do this as well. Besides decreasing expenses, improving travel logistics, and improving recruiting, having a distributed workforce increases disaster resiliency such as in case San Francisco had a major earthquake.
Google, Microsoft and Facebook also have the vast majority of their employees working in the Pacific Northwest. I don't think recruiting and location strategy is a topic particularly amenable to amateur input. The management of the WMF is not an element of the movement that is crowdsourced, probably for good reason. Not that anyone with great confidence in their opinion should refrain from offering it, but hopefully no one will be upset when the WMF makes its own decision.