On 31 March 2012 22:57, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31 March 2012 22:42, HJ Mitchell <[email protected]> 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.
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