[Foundation-l] Wikimedia main office

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For me, who live in Swiss, to see that Washington could be the seat of the
main office of WF I automatically could think about a link between it and
US government. I know that european thought is very strange! but for a non-political
association this could be a bad choice.

Ilario


>-- Messaggio originale --
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 20:51:24 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia main office
>Reply-To: dmayer at wikimedia.org,
>	Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
>
>
>--- Robin Shannon <robin.shannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Washington is (and more importantly is thought of as) an *American*
>> not international administrative centre. It would send a bad message
>> to the rest of the world if we moved there.
>
>That is symbolism over substance and thus not a valid argument in my book.
>Besides, D.C. itself is
>too expensive, the office would be in a suburb (preferably reasonably close
>to a Metro station). 
>
>-- mav
>
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