It's time to nominate your candidates for FTSC administrator. Please
make your nomination as soon as possible to give your nominee ample
time to accept the nomination and for his acceptance to propogate
through this echo. See details below for more information.


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2018 FTSC Administrator special election, call for nominations
==============================================================


An election for FTSC Administrator starts on Sunday 11th of November
2018 at 20:00 UTC.

From FTA-1001.007

3.1 FTSC Administrator
----------------------

The FTSC administrator is appointed for a four year renewable term.

To be eligible for appointment, an individual must be a Fidonet
node, be actively involved in Fidonet, though not necessarily in a
programming context, and should have proven organizational skills. A
candidate need not be a member of the FTSC. It is recommended that a
successful candidate not carry any *C or *EC responsibilities during
the term of office.

A candidate for FTSC Administrator may be nominated by any Standing
Member.

The FTSC Administrator is appointed on the basis of a vote by all
Standing Members who are defined by the then-current edition of
FTA-1003 (FTSC Membership List). A successful candidate must receive
approval by at least a plurality of votes.

Publication of the nominations and the voting procedure shall take
place openly in the FTSC_PUBLIC echo, and voting shall close three
weeks after publication of the vote. Votes shall be by netmail
ballot to an independent enumerator.

Responsibilities:

1. Ensuring FTSC Mandate is adhered to.
2. Facilitating communications links between members.
3. Maintaining document distribution links.
4. Coordinating all membership nominations and voting.
5. Developing Working Groups as required.
6. Ensuring that the FTSC seeks, accepts and responds to public
input.
7. Assigning FSP numbers to new Standards Proposals.

Timeline
========

Sunday, 11 November 2018 (20:00 UTC) Nominations begin.
Sunday, 18 November 2018 (20:00 UTC) Nominations close/candidate
list posted in FTSC_PUBLIC.
Monday, 19 November 2018 Voting begins.
Sunday, 09 December 2018 (20:00 UTC) Voting ends.
Monday, 10 December 2018 Results posted in FTSC_PUBLIC/
opportunity to contest results begins. Sunday, 16 December 2018 (20:00 UTC) Period to contest results ends.
Monday, 17 December 2018 Final results posted in FTSC_PUBLIC/ new FTSC adminstrator begins work.

Nominations
===========

Nominations will be placed in FTSC_PUBLIC. Any standing member of the FTSC
may nominate a candidate or candidates. Any prospective candidate must publicly accept the nomination in FTSC_PUBLIC to be considered a valid candidate.

In the event that only one candidate is properly nominated, that candidate will become the new FTSC administrator, effective Monday, November 19, 2018.

Voting
======

Ballots are to be submitted via NetMail to Fred Riccio at 1:132/174. Ballots must be received during the above voting period to be considered valid. Ballots should include the name of the candidate selected and a password. The passwords will be periodicly posted in FTSC_PUBLIC to allow the voters to verify that their ballot was counted correctly.

Results
=======

At the completion of the voting period, the results will be posted in FTSC_PUBLIC. To be elected, a candidate must receive a plurality of votes cast.

Challenges
==========

Any voter or candidate wishing to challenge the results may do so by sending NetMail to the independent enumerator (Fred Riccio @ 1:132/174). No challenges

will be considered if received after the period specified above. The independent enumerator will have the final say in any challenges of candidates or votes. Upon expiration of the challenge period, the final results will be posted in FTSC_PUBLIC, and FTA-1003 will be updated to reflect the final results.


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So far we have...



Nominee Nominated by Accepted
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Andrew Leary Dallas Hinton Yes
Markus Reschke xxCarol ?

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Re: FTSC Administrator - Nominations
By: Fred Riccio to All on Sun Nov 11 2018 03:00 pm

It's time to nominate your candidates for FTSC administrator. Please
make your nomination as soon as possible to give your nominee ample
time to accept the nomination and for his acceptance to propogate
through this echo. See details below for more information.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

2018 FTSC Administrator special election, call for nominations ==============================================================

An election for FTSC Administrator starts on Sunday 11th of November
2018 at 20:00 UTC.

From FTA-1001.007

3.1 FTSC Administrator
----------------------

The FTSC administrator is appointed for a four year renewable term.

To be eligible for appointment, an individual must be a Fidonet
node, be actively involved in Fidonet, though not necessarily in a programming context, and should have proven organizational skills. A candidate need not be a member of the FTSC. It is recommended that a successful candidate not carry any *C or *EC responsibilities during
the term of office.

A candidate for FTSC Administrator may be nominated by any Standing Member.

Hi Fred, with all the other traffic, just making sure my nomination got through.

I nominate Markus Reschke 2:240/1661
Hope I spelled it right and all but we know who I mean.
xxcarol
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Hello Carol!

12 Nov 18 20:13, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Fred Riccio:

Hi Fred, with all the other traffic, just making sure my nomination
got through.

Yes it did. I posted a summary of nominarions in this area about 15 minutes before you wrote the above message (and will do so daily until nominations are closed). That message serves as your ACK.


Regards,
Fred

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Hello All!

Attached below is the current candidate list. Remember, nominations close on November 18 at 2000 UTC.



Nominee Nominated by Accepted
------------ ------------- --------
Andrew Leary Dallas Hinton Yes
Markus Reschke xxCarol No

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Here is what we have so far. Nominations close on 18-Nov at 2000 UTC



Nominee Nominated by Accepted
------------ ------------- --------
Andrew Leary Dallas Hinton Yes
Markus Reschke xxCarol Declined

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Nominations close in 24 hours (Sunday, 18 November 2018 @20:00).

Carol, you have until then to accept or decline your nomination!


Nominee Nominated by Accepted
------------ ------------- --------
Andrew Leary Dallas Hinton Yes
Markus Reschke xxCarol Declined
Carol Shenkenberger Markus Reschke ?

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Re: FTSC Administrator - Nominations
By: Fred Riccio to All on Sat Nov 17 2018 03:00 pm

Nominations close in 24 hours (Sunday, 18 November 2018 @20:00).

Hi Fred, I think we need another week to give Z2 contenders time to settle out who is running. I do not want to unfairly omit any of them.

Ok with giving them a bit more time? It's not like we have a mandated document for times. We can change it now that we know it took us a little longer to get the folks over things and talking.

Nominations open until 24 Nov work?

xxcarol
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Hello Carol,

On Sunday November 18 2018 00:14, you wrote to Fred Riccio:

Ok with giving them a bit more time? It's not like we have a mandated document for times. We can change it now that we know it took us a
little longer to get the folks over things and talking.

Nominations open until 24 Nov work?

NO!!!!

I resigned as administrator and now I want to get rid of any remaing duties ASAP. It would have been fine with me to drop the links and hand over ftsc.org to Andrew tonight. Unfortunately you were nominated and accepted and now I have
to keep my promise to 'leave the link as is" for ANOTHER MONTH! :-(

Adding yet another week is too much. :-(


Cheers, Michiel

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Hi Fred, I think we need another week to give Z2 contenders time to
settle out who is running. I do not want to unfairly omit any of them.

1) It's not really a zone thing
2) Someone should nominate Michiel, although I don't enjoy what he did to me,
he still ran the shop in an excellent way ...
3) Or Kees Van Eeten ... I know of no other more technical a-political person
than him... hmmm ... maybe Joacim Melin ... and Markus.

\%/@rd

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18 Nov 18 00:14, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Fred Riccio:

I think we need another week to give Z2 contenders time to settle
out who is running. I do not want to unfairly omit any of them.

Everyone had the same amount of time to nominate a candidate.

Those with time management skills would have started their search back on October 31st, when Michiel announced he was stepping down.

Ok with giving them a bit more time? It's not like we have a
mandated document for times.

It's not my decision. I'm following the rules drafted by the FTSC members. You should have spoken out then, not after the election was underway.

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Hi Carol!

Nov 18 00:14 2018, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Fred Riccio:

Hi Fred, I think we need another week to give Z2 contenders time to settle out who is running. I do not want to unfairly omit any of
them.

No worries! If there would be any suitable candidates from Z2 we would have nominated them already. And possible candidates we've asked declined to be nominated. Let's proceed with the schedule as planned.

ciao,
Markus

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Re: Re: FTSC Administrator - Nominations
By: Ward Dossche to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Nov 18 2018 11:15 am

than him... hmmm ... maybe Joacim Melin ... and Markus.

Markus declined. So far, we stand with me and Dallas. There's been an open call in the FTSC to see if any others wanted to try but I am worried the short nomination phase may have some who would like to run, not realize it's set to close out today.

Even Dallas reminded me to accept (he'd not seen I already had yet as messages are passing fast).

ElectionCoordinator hasn't ack'd my acceptance yet either but it may be enroute still to my pickup.

I agree there are others who could be very good indeed but I can't do more than suggest a few days more. MVDL already said he's not in favor of that.

For the rest, of those who have posted about it, the FTSC has a 100% agreement to sensibly delay the next regular member election until after this
coordinator set is over. We might hear some dissent later on just when, and will work with it but it seems pretty solid the next set for that will be sometime in the spring. The new Coordinator will announce it.

xxcarol
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18 Nov 18 10:49, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Ward Dossche:

Markus declined. So far, we stand with me and Dallas.

Who nominated Dallas (and when)? I didn't see that message!

and yes, I did see your acceptance.

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Hi Carol -- on Nov 18 2018 at 10:49, you wrote:

Markus declined. So far, we stand with me and Dallas. There's been

Excuse me? I nominated Andrew Leary; I'm not a candidate.




Cheers... Dallas

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Re: FTSC Administrator - Nominations
By: Markus Reschke to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Nov 18 2018 04:30 pm

Hi Fred, I think we need another week to give Z2 contenders time to
settle out who is running. I do not want to unfairly omit any of
them.

No worries! If there would be any suitable candidates from Z2 we would have nominated them already. And possible candidates we've asked declined to be nominated. Let's proceed with the schedule as planned.

Ok. I just don't want someone to come back later and say 'Z2 didnt get a chance'.

xxcarol
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Re: Re: FTSC Administrator - Nominations
By: Fred Riccio to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Nov 18 2018 01:14 pm

Markus declined. So far, we stand with me and Dallas.

Who nominated Dallas (and when)? I didn't see that message!

and yes, I did see your acceptance.

I forgot who nominated Dallas but he was. Alexey just came in and sorry for the fast movement but that's how it is when this little time was allowed. I back nominated him in the interest of speed and he's a good person.

xxcarol
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Re: FTSC Administrator - Nominations
By: Dallas Hinton to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Nov 18 2018 12:04 pm

Markus declined. So far, we stand with me and Dallas. There's been

Excuse me? I nominated Andrew Leary; I'm not a candidate.

Sorry! Fast election. Mixed names.

Got a flag for Andrew Leary? Need one for Alexey as well!
xxcarol
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18 Nov 18 15:33, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Fred Riccio:

I forgot who nominated Dallas but he was.

That message never made it here. Forward it to me, or it didn't happen.

Alexey just came in

[ ... ]

I back nominated him in the interest of speed and he's a good person.

Nominations were closed when you entered your message. I *do* accept his self-nomination as a valid one.

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On 2018 Nov 17 15:00:14, you wrote to All:

Nominations close in 24 hours (Sunday, 18 November 2018 @20:00).

here we go again... which 20:00??? please always include the offset from UTC...

eg: 20:00 -0400
20:00 -0000
20:00 +11:00

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong...
... Now I definitely crave a pork product of some kind.
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On 2018 Nov 18 15:43:46, you wrote to Dallas Hinton:

Got a flag for Andrew Leary? Need one for Alexey as well!

what do you mean "flag"???

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong...
... There is a French Foreign Legion because the French won't join.
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Got a flag for Andrew Leary? Need one for Alexey as well!

what do you mean "flag"???

It's the new 'AL'-flag. Never heard about it?

\%/@rd

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Hello mark!

18 Nov 18 16:03, mark lewis wrote to Fred Riccio:

On 2018 Nov 17 15:00:14, you wrote to All:

Nominations close in 24 hours (Sunday, 18 November 2018 @20:00).

here we go again... which 20:00??? please always include the offset
from UTC...

20:00 UTC. It was in the original rules posting as well as several of the other messages I posted here.

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