Everton Zanella Alvarenga, 25/08/2013 15:42:
2013/8/24 Romaine Wiki <[email protected]>
It is possible to have one location where everything is organized and arranged,
but WMF is an international organisation to support the world wide Wikimedia
movement. I think it would be good to have WMF deeper inside the world wide
community, both digital and physical. I think it is healthy not to focus on one
location, but to have an office more inside the Wikimedia movement, at least
one on each (largely populated) continent.
For local communities WMF is far far far away, while localizing WMF would bring
WMF and communities more together.
Romaine, I think a lot of people would agree with you, but I insist
you to analyse the trial to create offices in India, Brazil and Middle
East. This plan has changed and here is the very short explanation:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus#We_plan_to_convert_the_catalyst_projects_into_grants.
I think a big mistake here was to try to make 3 offices, instead of
focusing in one and make it really well.[...]
This is important to keep in mind, but I don't think it's related to
what Romaine is talking about. Those were not just "offices", they were
offices for a project. Distributing existing projects (like engineering)
in different locations is an entirely different matter than establishing
new activities in new locations, not that I have opinions on either.
Nemo
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