Good ${greeting_time}, Andrew!

05 Nov 2019 06:03:18, you wrote to me:

 AV>> Why? There was an excellent tradition to appoint it from the FTSC
 AV>> members who had their term expired, and they were the only people
 AV>> who were permitted to nominate themselves, as both RCs and ZCs
 AV>> _must_ _not_ (as in FTA-1006) be FTSC members.
 AL> I haven't seen that done formally since I've been a member of the
 AL> FTSC.

Nice coincidence: it was last used in 2010, when you were first elected.

 AL>>> Therefore, anyone interested in serving on the FTSC should
 AL>>> solicit a nomination from an RC.
 AV>> I suspect this would leave some good candidates out-of-board.
 AV>> And instead pull in some real idiots (as F73 in ICD) without
 AV>> any option to vote them out.
 AL> Unfortunately, for years now the RCs have for the most part
 AL> supported all candidates that were nominated.

Yes - mostly because they (in majority) don't really care.

 AL> More often than not, expiring members end up being nominated
 AL> again, just because they have been willing to serve in the past.

And this produces the most destructive effect of populating the FTSC with
mentally retarded^W^W ignoramii (is this the correct plural form for the
"ignoramus"?) instead of technical experts.

 AL> Candidates are nominated in some cases for no reason other than
 AL> to ensure that group  is represented.

We don't need disabled lesbian niggers or other "groups" here - we need
technical experts who are able to collect, process and document the common
technical practices.


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