Subj : Re: FTA-1000 FTSC Charter Revisions
To : Dan Clough
From : Nick Andre
Date : Mon Nov 28 2022 09:05 am
On 28 Nov 22 07:37:00, Dan Clough said the following to Andrew Leary:
DC> AL> As revisions to the FTSC Charter require a broad public concensus
DC> AL> in FTSC_PUBLIC, I welcome any/all interested FidoNet SysOps to
DC> AL> provide their input on this proposal.
DC>
DC> Who is suggesting that it be revised, and what reason is given as to why
DC> that would be needed?
Me for one.
There are not enough tech-people who want to be or are competent to be FTSC
paper tigers. The FTSC is a relic from the days when there was sufficient
tech-talent that could properly document whatever was trendy in Fido at the
time. There's been nothing trendy since BinkD...
In the last couple of elections there have been people elected to the FTSC
with gross misconceptions of what the FTSC does; or people elected because
they believe a politician is needed more than tech talent.
It could be argued that the FTSC should be entirely disbanded now and the
documents put on Github or whatever repository but then we have a question of
who gets to maintain that to prevent certain people from rewriting history or
reinventing wheels.
Its better to have the absolute bare minimum of odd-numbered tech-people to
occasionally wipe the dust off the documents if and when someone discovers
some weird spelling mistake or something open to misinterpretation.
Nick
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