<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">> No caricature intended. AFAICT Omidyar are consultants, among many other <br>> no doubt wondrous things. I agree that usability is essential to <br>> consider, but given the large amount of time that the OSM community is <br>> already devoting to it, disagree that an external review is what's <br>> needed right now.<br><br>No one is asking Omidyar for a usability review. We are simply replying to them that<br>we are interested in discussing things with them further. They are very clear that<br>it's up to us to decide what we want.<br><br>Omiyar is a philanthropic investment firm. They've worked with great projects
like<br>Wikipedia, Ushahidi, Creative Commons, Sunlight Foundation. Stephen King is very well<br>respected, and have major kudos from many of our peers. <br><br>-Mikel<br><br><br><br></div></div>
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