2013/8/25 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com>: > 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.
Yeah, Nemo, I think you're right. But at the same time there are still things in common that can be used from these experiences. Like setting an office in a place with a legislation totally different from US for instance, which can have complicated implications and new challenges in several aspects. You should make this in such a way to protect the organization and the new employees, and also find the local requirements to make this happen. Think about the risk, for instance, of employees being sued in name of WMF. Or also the new rules WMF would need to understand about the local workers legislation. This is not in any report, but there were several surprises during the catalyst, like "1. Oh, really that Brazilians have right to one month of vacation? 2. Oh, that is true, in Brazil there is also holidays. 3. Damn, how expensive are Brazilian taxes!" These (basic) things were not taking into account and they are some of things you have to think about before trying to set new physical offices. There are other things we can think of. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>