On 31 March 2012 22:42, HJ Mitchell
<hjmitchell(a)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.