A matter of timescales - getting really close to the fundraiser and other things.<br>Lots of opinions from different people and yet a decision had to be made. Not an easy decision to make and those making it have shown leaderships I think. You can&#39;t please all the people all of the time and this discussion has been going on for all of the nine months I have been here. A long gestation, time for a baby.<br>


<br>Let&#39;s see how it goes.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 June 2012 15:40, Charles Matthews <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com" target="_blank">charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On 25 June 2012 14:44, Jon Davies <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk" target="_blank">jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am pleased to announce that we are recruiting for a Developer.<br><br></blockquote></div><div>Disappointed that a community view expressed here has been brushed aside. The Board members who participated in the discussion on this list did not convince me, at least, that the ideas from January 2010, that I heard debated, had really been subjected to recent scrutiny. Quite the opposite.</div>


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<div><br></div><div>Charles</div></font></span></div>
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