On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As Wikimedia's paid staff continues to grow, the decision to move to San >> Francisco (and its consequences) actually gets amplified, doesn't it? It >> would only be offset by the benefits that Wikimedia gets for being in that >> particular location (partnerships with other San Francisco-based companies, >> presumably). > Since I wasn't an employee when the Foundation made the move to San > Francisco, I can't speak for all of the motivations. From my > perspective as an open source software developer working on such a novel > project, there are a lot of advantages to being in the Bay Area - namely > proximity to lots of other projects with similar values (for > partnerships, support, networking, etc) as well as a large pool of > excellent developer talent. Of course, excellent developer talent is > not unique to SF (evidenced by the fact that so many of our developers > are remote), I believe it exists here in a much more concentrated > fashion than elsewhere. Also, the Bay Area has a ton of non-engineering > talent with non-profit and community focused experience. I can only > speak from my own experience and anecdotal evidence, but I would argue > that the Bay Area is a hub (at least in the US) for both engineering and > community development/non-profit professionals. > Yes, that was what we were said several years ago
and I think now there's ample evidence to show it was true, look at all the partnerships and support we got _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
