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

[Dan Rosenthal]

On Mar 7, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> Considering that the
> number of articles is slowly becoming more balanced and considering  
> that
> even the English Wikipedia has contributors all over the world,  
> there is no
> such thing as an "obvious" location to choose from.
> Thanks,
>    GerardM


Being that there is no "obvious location", Gerard, then there is no  
reason to pick a location that has significant drawbacks. There are  
many European, North American, even Asian locations that are  
accessible to the vast majority of the world, in some cases probably  
less expensively than Alexandria, (since places that are major  
international airport hubs usually have the cheapest airfares, and  
generally do not require a connecting flight ticket), that are more  
free and open societies, without as intense worries about censorship,  
terrorism, or implicitly supporting human rights violations. Toronto,  
DC, New York, Berlin, Paris, London, Tokyo, Seoul, San Francisco,  
Moscow, Vienna, Prague, etc.  If there is no "obvious location" to  
choose from, why not any of these places that are safer, do not  
require out attendees to pretend they are not gay or jewish, do not  
discriminate against women, etc.

-Dan