On 5/26/06, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
Nobody has suggested that you or any other board member would need to move. Board members need not be in any Wikimedia office every day. The location of the main office (that is, the one where the executive director and most of the staff work) should be, IMO, dictated by where we can most easily maximize connections with like-minded organizations and with the relevant representatives of the nations we want to work with.
Being in NYC, DC, or varrious other locations would being us closer to some subset of interesting orginizations... But being near a solid airport places us near all of them. This really is the way a lot of business is done today.
Whenever we have a critical mass of people in a spot we should consider opening an office, but lets not let the tail wag the dog. The increased cost of travel doesn't justify the cost of an additional office in a prime location and if the location is non-prime, what did you save on travel?