2009/7/28 Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de:
Right - and I think the fist reason sucks and the second is a good reason. Ironically, the second problem is probably easier to overcome.
if, when and how charities can transfer/donate to organizations in another country seems to be an issue for the lawyers. *sigh*
Full agree ;)
Transfering money can create larger problem than law (which can be solved using lots of well-payed lawyers) - PR.
It can be used by journalists to attack chapter because ''they are sending our money given in *good faith* to Germany (or any other country)!'' and derivations of this topic.
Probably it would be worth to analyze creating specialized toolserver clusters in different countries. For example:
* German cluster has replicated data from WMF, so it can be used for tools that need that * AFAIK Gc is near European proxies, so it's good for running bots on wikis * historically Polish *toolserver* is used as place for keeping photos not uploaded to Commons by some of our photographers (safe storage and collaboration in choosing photos for uploading)
* If for Norwegians it's easier to buy for themselves machine with many-many processors, tons of RAM, etc. why not to create facility for dump analisys in Norway?
AJF/WarX