[Foundation-l] Concern for the safety of Wikimedians at Wikimania in Alex...

[Dan Rosenthal]

And I was trained in the army as a force protection officer to do the  
kind of risk assessment that relates to the probability of a terrorist  
attack. If as you say, individual participants have minimal contact  
with their environment, then there is no rational reason to have it in  
Egypt, as compared to a more accessible, less expensive, less  
dangerous country. After all, if the conference goers are not going to  
have contact with the surrounding environment it does not matter where  
the event is held and it should therefore be held at the cheapest and  
safest location.

-Dan
On Mar 4, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> I have been trained to do particular types of risk assessment. The
> observation of the behaviour of people at Wikimanias past leads me to
> conclude that the risk to individual participants is limited  
> relative to the
> similar people being on their own in the same environment.