On 22/09/2007, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/09/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/09/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
As a Brit, I'm pleased to see London was considered. Why was it the only non-US city considered, though? I'm also curious as to why you considered San Francisco better than London - to my knowledge, London is a far more international city that San Francisco, which I would think was a major consideration is choosing a base for the WMF.
I'm imagining difficulties with the prices. The pound sterling is the depleted uranium of currency, and London is expensive even in that context. Not to mention in running a US charity from the UK.
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.