[Foundation-l] Relocation announcement

[Thomas Dalton]

> > In making this decision, we assessed five major cities: Boston, London,
>
> If that assessment took more that say 20 seconds we have a problem.

Could you elaborate? Are you saying that it should be, in some way,
obvious that London is a bad choice? In what way is that?

> One of these days the board is going to make a decision that doesn't
> increase costs.

There's more to decision making that cutting costs. Any change from
the status quo is normally going to cost money.

> > Why San Francisco? It's the centre of high-tech in the United States.
>
> Wikipedia isn't really that high-tech any more.

That's a pretty good point, I'm not really sure why the WMF needs to
be near high-tech industry.

> > It's home to plenty of like-minded organizations and possible partners,
> > top-tier universities like Stanford and UC Berkeley, world-class support
> > services, and major media.
>
> You want to go near the major media groups?

Why not? You can work with your competition to mutual benefit, you know.

> So we now have to worry about 2 sets of state law? While I understand
> Californian law in the relevant areas is fairly liberal anyone know
> any details?
> Either way BLP is going to need updating. Again.

WMF is an international organisation. Yes, they are registered in the
US, but they do business around the world, which means they have to
consider all kinds of legal systems. BLP is not based on Florida law.
Libel law doesn't vary that much from place to place, BLP is intended
to be safe from any major definition (same as our fair use policy),
and the rest of BLP is based on ethics, which aren't set down in
statutes of any state.