2009/7/28 Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de>de>:
Right - and I think the fist reason sucks and the
second is a good reason.
Ironically, the second problem is probably easier to overcome.
if, when and how charities can transfer/donate to organizations in another
country seems to be an issue for the lawyers. *sigh*
Full agree ;)
Transfering money can create larger problem than law (which can be
solved using lots of well-payed lawyers) - PR.
It can be used by journalists to attack chapter because ''they are
sending our money given in *good faith* to Germany (or any other
country)!'' and derivations of this topic.
Probably it would be worth to analyze creating specialized toolserver
clusters in different countries. For example:
* German cluster has replicated data from WMF, so it can be used for
tools that need that
* AFAIK Gc is near European proxies, so it's good for running bots on wikis
* historically Polish *toolserver* is used as place for keeping photos
not uploaded to Commons by some of our photographers (safe storage and
collaboration in choosing photos for uploading)
* If for Norwegians it's easier to buy for themselves machine with
many-many processors, tons of RAM, etc. why not to create facility for
dump analisys in Norway?
AJF/WarX