Subj : 2019 FTSC Standing Member Election - self-nominees
To : Alexey Vissarionov
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Wed Nov 06 2019 05:41 pm
Re: 2019 FTSC Standing Member Election - self-nominees
By: Alexey Vissarionov to Andrew Leary on Tue Nov 05 2019 12:34 pm
> Good ${greeting_time}, Andrew!
>
> 05 Nov 2019 02:58:20, you wrote to Deon George:
>
> DG>> So self nomination is possible? If so, I'd like to nominate myself.
> AL> 1. The nomination period opens on Sunday, November 10th, at 20:00
> AL> UTC.
> AL> 2. RCs and members of nominating committees (appointed by the FTSC
> AL> or ZCC) are the only authorized parties to nominate a candidate for
> AL> standing membership in the FTSC. The FTSC has not appointed a
> AL> nominating committee,
>
> Why? There was an excellent tradition to appoint it from the FTSC members wh
> had their term expired, and they were the only people who were permitted to
> nominate themselves, as both RCs and ZCs _must_ _not_ (as in FTA-1006) be FT
> members.
>
> AL> and to my knowledge, neither has the ZCC.
>
> They already have advisory voice as invited guests.
>
> AL> Therefore, anyone interested in serving on the FTSC should solicit a
> AL> nomination from an RC.
>
> I suspect this would leave some good candidates out-of-board. And instead pu
> in some real idiots (as F73 in ICD) without any option to vote them out.
>
> As usual.
>
>
> --
> Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin
> gremlin.ru!gremlin; +vii-cmiii-ccxxix-lxxix-xlii
>
> ... god@universe:~ # cvs up && make world
Actually, we might need to revisit that document. I thought we fixed it but I
guess not. We've allowed RC's for some time and allowed exceptions to the ZC
situation as well.