Subj : FidoGazette Vol 12 no 17 Page: 3
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From : Janis Kracht
Date : Wed Apr 25 2018 17:35:16

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    Back to the Forest
    by Janis Kracht, 1:261/38

    In case you've been sleeping and missed some news in the Z1C
    echo, Zone 1 Coordinator, Janis Kracht, is preparing to go back
    to being a "simple" node in Fidonet, without all the work that
    the position of Z1C entails (grin) Actually, I may decide at
    some point soon to leave Fidonet altogether, I'm just not sure
    right now if I will.

    I announced this Monday that the RCs should start an election in
    Zone 1 for my replacement.  They are working on this as I type,
    thanks guys!

    Hopefully, they will see it the same way I do... that all sysops
    in Zone1 should be given the opportunity to be nominated if they
    care to be...  and nominations and votes should be collected
    from every sysop in Zone 1, not just the RCs.  My RCs are an
    exceptional bunch and I am so very grateful that they've been my
    right hand the entire time I've been Zone1 Coordinator, but for
    something like the position of Z1C, I feel it's better to
    involve everyone in Zone 1.

    You may not have been around when I was elected Z1C so many
    years ago...  it's been that many years <g> (2001).  At the
    time, it was the way things were done...  if one is concerned
    about the number of people voting in this, just think for a
    moment about the number of sysops that were involved in that
    election in 2001 :) One site I checked today said that in
    mid-2001 Fidonet had approximately 15K nodes - granted that was
    all zones, but given that other zones were somewhat smaller than
    Zone 1 way back then, it is at least clear that our numbers in
    Zone 1 were much larger than today's numbers listed in the
    current nodelist.

    There are a few reasons I'd like to see this election involve
    "everyone" in the nomination/election process:

    1) What better way is there to wake people up? (grin)
    2) When people are directly involved, they participate.
    3) When the selection process if open to all members, who knows
       what gem may be discovered? When I was elected, I was a
       general "nobody" in the great scheme of all things "Fido"..
       sure I could route Netmail, and had taken over the PDN from
       Erik van Riper, but as far as other jobs I'd held, I believe
       I'd been an NC for a short time, and then an REC (Regional
       Echomail Coordinator) when we lived in Louisville..  that's
       it.  You don't really know everyone in Fidonet or their
       capabilities unless you give them the chance to show those
       capabilities.  Ok, JMHO (grin)

    So, right now among other things, I'm looking forward to not
    having to make nodelists, update web pages, etc.  etc.  etc.
    While most of what I do is automated, one still has to check the
    results now and again to make sure the beast is under control..
    that freedom from the overall baby-sitting of my system will be
    a welcome relief... so much so that I can even start thinking
    about getting some programming done <vbg>












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