Subj : FidoGazette Vol 12 no 17 Page: 3 To : Janis Kracht From : Andrei Rachita Date : Thu Apr 26 2018 06:26:03 I feel so sad to hear that... Will you still write the FidoGazette? Best regards, Andrei JK> ================================================================ JK> A R T I C L E S JK> ================================================================ JK> Back to the Forest JK> by Janis Kracht, 1:261/38 JK> In case you've been sleeping and missed some news in the Z1C JK> echo, Zone 1 Coordinator, Janis Kracht, is preparing to go back JK> to being a "simple" node in Fidonet, without all the work that JK> the position of Z1C entails (grin) Actually, I may decide at JK> some point soon to leave Fidonet altogether, I'm just not sure JK> right now if I will. JK> I announced this Monday that the RCs should start an election in JK> Zone 1 for my replacement. They are working on this as I type, JK> thanks guys! JK> Hopefully, they will see it the same way I do... that all sysops JK> in Zone1 should be given the opportunity to be nominated if they JK> care to be... and nominations and votes should be collected JK> from every sysop in Zone 1, not just the RCs. My RCs are an JK> exceptional bunch and I am so very grateful that they've been my JK> right hand the entire time I've been Zone1 Coordinator, but for JK> something like the position of Z1C, I feel it's better to JK> involve everyone in Zone 1. JK> You may not have been around when I was elected Z1C so many JK> years ago... it's been that many years (2001). At the JK> time, it was the way things were done... if one is concerned JK> about the number of people voting in this, just think for a JK> moment about the number of sysops that were involved in that JK> election in 2001 :) One site I checked today said that in JK> mid-2001 Fidonet had approximately 15K nodes - granted that was JK> all zones, but given that other zones were somewhat smaller than JK> Zone 1 way back then, it is at least clear that our numbers in JK> Zone 1 were much larger than today's numbers listed in the JK> current nodelist. JK> There are a few reasons I'd like to see this election involve JK> "everyone" in the nomination/election process: JK> 1) What better way is there to wake people up? (grin) JK> 2) When people are directly involved, they participate. JK> 3) When the selection process if open to all members, who knows JK> what gem may be discovered? When I was elected, I was a JK> general "nobody" in the great scheme of all things "Fido".. JK> sure I could route Netmail, and had taken over the PDN from JK> Erik van Riper, but as far as other jobs I'd held, I believe JK> I'd been an NC for a short time, and then an REC (Regional JK> Echomail Coordinator) when we lived in Louisville.. that's JK> it. You don't really know everyone in Fidonet or their JK> capabilities unless you give them the chance to show those JK> capabilities. Ok, JMHO (grin) JK> So, right now among other things, I'm looking forward to not JK> having to make nodelists, update web pages, etc. etc. etc. JK> While most of what I do is automated, one still has to check the JK> results now and again to make sure the beast is under control.. JK> that freedom from the overall baby-sitting of my system will be JK> a welcome relief... so much so that I can even start thinking JK> about getting some programming done JK> FIDOGAZETTE Vol 12 No 17 Page 3 April 25, 2018 JK> ----------------------------------------------------------------- --- AfterShock/Android 1.6.7 * Origin: Pufa (2:530/306) .