[Foundation-l] Wikimedia main office

[Ray Saintonge]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>On 5/26/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
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>
>>Since most of us don't have sufficient funds to travel to public
>>meetings, nor sufficiently flexible schedules to sit around on IRC, it
>>should be no surprise that we're much more willing to debate on mailing
>>lists, which are the most inclusive.  If there were a public meeting in
>>Atlanta, I would certainly attend, but to my knowledge there hasn't been
>>one.
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>If you consider your own contributions of such low value that they are
>not worth going out of your way to present, even including sending
>someone else in your place... then why should we expect them to be
>worth our time reading on a mailing list?
>
How do you measure the worth of a person's contributiona?  Some of us 
have real lives.  Perhaps you are independently wealthy, and can do 
this.  For most of us, however, running around the world to defend our 
contributions would require a significant outlay for which no subsidies 
are available.

Ec