The Foundation was searching for rooms because the current rooms are already quite crowded (everyone who had visited the office can confirm this) and because we will start the usability project we are going to hire three more developers.
Thus the Foundation has either to lease offices in the vincinity or have to move completely into a new, bigger site. The Foundation has set up a list of criterias in search: First of all, move to a new site is more costly than lease additional office. Second the office that are searched should be near the main office, for better communication and tech supports. Third the office must have sufficiant tech infrastructures. And naturally it should be of a convinient price. After checking many possibilities at last the Foundation had decided to lease the offices from Wikia, mainly because all criterias above fills at best by the Wikia site. The lease contract is a standard contract with no additional terms. The lease price is average SF lease price. It is directly beside the main office and it provides the infrastructure we need. That's all. There are no other things running here. The board was informed about the searching of additional or new office while its October 2008 meeting and was informed about the leasing of the Wikia office in its January meeting. And if someone is interested in this: I am told that Jimmy is not involved in this matter, neither on the WMF side nor on the Wikia side. Ting _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l