LF also seems to drop the Netbook UX (and maybe all GTK stuff along with it)

Note that the decision to fund this was made around April 2010, almost a year ago.

It took that long for the GNOME Foundation to figure out exactly what was on the table, then decide what to do with the money, then run the call for bids and select the successful candidate.

I was part of the process to begin with (which ended up as headless chicken discussions do - many people voiced slightly different opinions, and there was no-one to say "OK, having listened to you all, here's what we're going to do").

The offer was made in April, around the time of the Collaboration Summit. It was discussed on mobile-devel-list until June, the board had decided what to do with the money by GUADEC in July, the call for bids was opened in October, with no deadline specified, a deadline was set for mid November, the winning bid was chosen in mid December, but wasn't announced until January.

So that is completely unrelated to anything that's happened since April.

Cheers,
Dave.