Hi all,

Er . . . actually it went right. I think Jon has made it clear that despite appearances it wasn't simple. Any problems arose from people's expectations that it would be simple.

Tom, you have correctly, in my view, raised the problem having an over-ambitious activity plan. I would have hoped that you realised that many issues become more complex in practice and accept this as a case in point

all the best

Fabian

Message: 5 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:38:04 +0000 From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Governance review Message-ID: CALTQcccZekXv1znq00RrxY3y4eqwr6jZUdoWd=tTrS6RH1Hvtw@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

On Feb 11, 2013 3:25 PM, "Jon Davies" jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:

...

It is so easy to think this was simple and why did it take so long. It

just did. From October 1st 2011, through two legal drafts, the involvement of staff and trustees over two continents, countless meetings, phone calls and emails, it all took time.

...

Let's be happy we got there and toast the success. But please let's move

on and make QRpedia work.

You're the chief executive, it's your job to review what has happened, work out why it went wrong and work out how to do things better in future. "It just did" is totally unacceptable.