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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