[Foundation-l] [Announcement] New Head of Communications: Jay Walsh

[geni]

On 09/01/2008, Michael Snow <wikipedia at att.net> wrote:
> Chad wrote:
> > So let me get this straight.
> >
> > We moved to San Francisco to hire the best Silicon Valley has to offer...and yet
> > our first new hires are a German and a Canadian?
> >
> > Just seems like things don't quite add up. Perhaps the Board and Sue should
> > better communicate the goals of the move to each other.
> You haven't got it straight in the slightest. Please do that first you
> want to be snarky about things.
> 1. The first hires announced were one from California and one from
> Chicago (recently relocated to San Francisco).
> 2. The stated reasons for moving to San Francisco were not solely or
> even primarily about the hiring pool - among the issues mentioned were
> proximity to like-minded organizations and potential partners, and
> better location for international travel.
>

So the second on came from the city that appeared to come top when we
tried to apply the formal ranking criteria on IRC (the FSF is based
there see and it has a good international airport).

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geni