On 31 March 2012 22:57, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 March 2012 22:42, HJ Mitchell hjmitchell@ymail.com wrote:
Without commenting on any other point or expressing any other opinions
wrt
either bid, I don't think the board has let us down at all (and I'm
hardly
known for speaking up in defence of the board!). Having to choose between two bids from cities with strong Wikimedia communities, one of which was built by a sitting trustee, would put the board in a very difficult position, and favouring one bid over the other risked creating division
in
the community (and even the board itself).
Division in the community is what we have now - we have some people working on one bid and some people working on another. That's divided. If the board had chosen one bid to support, we could have all worked together on that bid. That's undivided.
You make the assumption that the people who had worked on the rejected bid would have shaken that rejection off to give their wholehearted support to the chosen bid.