[Foundation-l] Relocation announcement

[geni]

On 22/09/2007, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Right on it :-)
>
> It is interesting to see that many of the discussions focus on a
> question of costs or on a legal question.

Because wikipedians are survival minded. From the point of view of the
average wikipedian the job of the foundation is to keep the servers
running. Thus having the foundation take on extra liabilities (higher
rents and wages and the like) is worrying. It's the standard crisis
analysis. If the money stops coming in how long can we keep going.
Moving somewhere expensive doesn't help.

>Will moving out of Florida
> increase costs ? Without any doubts :-) But in the long run, moving out
> of Florida has become necessary to allow the Foundation to grow and
> mature. Sue already mentionned several reasons to move out, such as
> getting nearer similar-minded organizations, making international travel
> easier, major media or top universities. I have another argument to push
> along, which I think would impair our grown very soon in the future.
> People. People as in staff. We had the chance to find very good people
> in St Pete (or had the chance some staff members, such as Brion, moved
> to Florida in the past), however, we must face a fact: we are more
> likely to find the skills we need for our development in a big
> multicultural city than in St Pete, in particular for the senior
> management. St Pete is a very confortable place to live, but not exactly
> a anthill of experts in fundraising, business development, grant making,
> open source mouvement etc...
>

Means nothing if you can't afford them in SF.

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geni