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-fi…
Please see also:
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1e40517da152288614b980cf9087e7dd
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/opinions/trump-travel-ban-fuels-terrorism-cl…
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/25/trumps-travel-ban-might-be-legal-but-i…
Sincerely,
Jim
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 3:20 AM, Mario Gómez <mariogomwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 8:53 PM, James Salsman
<jsalsman(a)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,
MarioGom
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