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. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l