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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
We disagree on what is obvious. For me it is obvious that we need to spread
the message of our projects and about our way as wide as possible. This
means that we should go where we are weak but are building a presence. Going
to the places that you where we are already doing well is missing important
opportunities. It is for this reason that places like Taipei and Alexandria
are brilliant.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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