[Foundation-l] WMF seeking to sub-lease office space?

[Geoffrey Plourde]

The best way to end this in the future is to give the community a brief heads up along the line of "Hey y'all, we will be moving to NEW ADDRESS effective DATE" This lets us know beforehand that the business address is going to change, and allows the Foundation to leverage moving support from SF Wikimedians. 




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From: geni <geniice at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2009 6:50:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] WMF seeking to sub-lease office space?

2009/9/5 Gregory Kohs <thekohser at gmail.com>:
> I reported that the Wikimedia Foundation is seeking to sub-let space that it
> itself is renting.  I have an e-mail from the property management firm
> confirming "the Wikimedia sublease".  Erik Moeller has confirmed that the
> Foundation is seeking to sub-let space.
>
> Which "accusations" do you speak of?

"Now, only eight months later, are we to understand that instead of
having “outgrown” its office space on Stillman Street, the WMF is
swimming in surplus floor space, that they need to hire Grubb & Ellis
to sub-let it out to someone else?"

WMF is swimming in surplus floor space?

> Why in the heck would I "apologize" for scooping the story that the
> Wikimedia Foundation is seeking to sub-let office space, if only the
> speculative intentions were a little off-base (I did not realize that the
> WMF does not intend to stay at Stillman Street a while longer, since the
> Foundation failed to communicate any significant "We're Moving Soon!"
> announcement to the community).

Spectacularly off-base. You threw in a bunch of accusations and
innuendo based on a complete misunderstanding of events.

The foundation doesn't talk about the particulars of it's office much
but descriptions and photos do exist and It wouldn't have taken much
work to realize that the amount described was pretty much consistent
with the foundation's entire office.