[Foundation-l] Concern for the safety of Wikimanians in Alexandria

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Given the arithmetic of Danny, with THEM being 42% of the people who are on
this committee, they surely have a strong influence on the decision. They
are not there to twiddle their thumbs.

Now did they have any other role on the committee the the other 58%, were
they less involved that you have to discriminate THEIR involvement? Are
there complaints about THEM having been on the committee?
Thanks,
      GerardM

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:35 PM, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/6/08, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Danny,
> >  When you understand that all the members of the jury are part of the
> WMF
> >  community, what is so hard to understand that the Wikimedia Foundation,
> as
> >  an organisation, does not determine where a Wikimania is held? This is
> imho
> >  what you fail to appreciate in Mike's comment.
> >  Thanks,
> >      GerardM
>
> The people on the Foundation and its advisory board strongly
> influenced the decision. I think the question is why they didn't use
> that influence to oppose this venue, given that parts of the community
> were likely to feel uneasy there, whether justifiably so or not. I
> would say probably not justifiably so, given the relatively liberal
> nature of Egypt, but it's nevertheless easy to see where the unease
> comes from.
>
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