On 5/26/06, Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)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?