[Foundation-l] We're not just here to run a hideously popular and expensive website, after all

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/23906
>
> (in the bush in Africa)
>
> "Maybe I'm wrong, but I imagine that was the only video camera owned by
> a local resident for miles around. The marginal benefit that one
> uncommon piece of technology can have when no others are around must
> be immense."
>   
Botswana has come a long way since "The Gods Must Be Crazy."
> Getting our content and the requisite technology out to the world has,
> as far as I recall, always been expressly part of what we're all doing
> here.
But I wonder if Wikimania were ever held in a place with very poor 
internet access,  would we be able to cope with the withdrawal symptoms 
of techies deprived of their favorite activity?

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