>On "Open-Sourcing" the design. At some point, someone needs to take >charge. Because, there's no way that all 120+ developers are going to >agree upon the morale-boosting design. Especially since it's a matter of >taste, and not design (like the rest of the project). The best we can do >is an open forum for discussion and someone willing to set aside the ego >but at the same time be the best person entrusted to make those hard >decisions. When the time comes, I think a simple ranking of the presented designs by interested parties should be sufficient to assure that the selected final design is at least acceptable to nearly everyone. e Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)