Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel

2015-04-17 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 15-04-17 05:13 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: > The only goal of a brilliant person in the this area > is to get rich with his own company. I d curious to hear how you handle > such conflict of interest. I'm sorry - what? I have no abundance of love towards the US society or its government as a rul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel

2015-04-17 Thread Luis Villa
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Andrew Lih wrote: > > Tim, I am not too sure about this. No single piece of open source > software > > comes to my mind when hearing bay area or silicon Valley. And no people > > living there and no company located there. Except the Gnu c compiler and > > may pos

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel

2015-04-17 Thread Andrew Lih
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:13 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: > > Tim, I am not too sure about this. No single piece of open source software > comes to my mind when hearing bay area or silicon Valley. And no people > living there and no company located there. Except the Gnu c compiler and > may postgres

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 15 -- 15 April 2015

2015-04-17 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
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