On 22/09/2007, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 22/09/2007, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)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.