[Foundation-l] Board statement regarding biographies of living people

[Nikola Smolenski]

Дана Friday 01 May 2009 19:06:55 Gregory Kohs написа:
> additional jet fuel and hotel consumption (laundered sheets, poor recycling
> standards, etc.) is something to consider if the polar ice melts and floods

Laundered sheets at least don't add any polution, because people would have to 
launder their sheets at home too.

> friendly, with innovations such as Skype and video-teleconferencing.  My
> sense is that "interesting" and "exotic" places are chosen instead... San
> Francisco, the Netherlands, Berlin, Taipei, Alexandria (Egypt, not
> Virginia), Buenos Aires, etc.  I suspect it's part of the corporate culture
> to get the "backwater" taste of St. Petersburg (Florida, not Russia) out of
> everyone's mouth, to select all of these far-flung, non-English-speaking
> locales for a Board that consists mostly of North Americans who speak
> English, and who are funded mostly by U.S. dollars.

These locations are chosen mostly in order to increase interest in 
Wiki[mp]edia around the world.