Tachikoma's decision to quit further once again proves that we need to have a developer who wants to engage with the political side of the project and represent the developers as a community, so that those who are not interested in politics and managing can simply develop. Tachikoma just wanted to create cool programs, but instead he had to, at least indirectly, get involved in a political debate, and this has made him decide to quit.

Tachikoma's decision to quit also shows why we absolutely need salaried workers: if a full-time developer quit, we would have two weeks to find new developers and mitigate the damage, whereas now the damage is immediate and probably much more serious.

JR's last post was November 27, and that was only to champion his pet-project of selling 90% of our Bitcoins to buy Mastercoins! His last post that directly addressed the Mastercoin protocol was November 25! The fact that anyone needs to be convinced that JR is not fulfilling his duties as a board member just shows that the point has not been seriously enough addressed.

rbdrbd is consistently engaged and alert regarding both the managerial and tecnhical aspects of the Mastercoin project. I fully support his nomination to the board. I recommend we have a formal - though unofficial - vote on it If the community is interested, I will set it up.