On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:41:42 -0500, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a pilot program for extending the educational purpose of the WMF. > Not speaking for the staff, but I assume a primary reason is that is > funded > by a grant that will require travel for a lot of the staff for the program, > so there's a money issue. Shuttling people across the country for a year > and putting them up is pricey, doubly so world wide. The program, as > mentioned, is a pilot and if successful in this it can be ported worldwide. > The WMF will be tracking this effort and will scale for future > development.
If this is the funding issue (a selective grant) then of course I can understand it. But otherwise it is difficult for me to appreciate that all four staff members for this program are tied to the US. At least one of them could have been deployed in France or Argentina, for example. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
