= Сообщение: 166 из 7128 ======================================= FTSC_PUBLIC = От : Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555 11 Nov 13 22:48:22 Кому : Wilfred van Velzen 11 Nov 13 22:48:22 Тема : Questions for the candidates FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=2:280/5555+528150d9 На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=2:280/464+527f7611 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: UTF-8 ================================== Ответ: area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=2:280/464+52827725 ============================================================================== Hello Wilfred,
On Sunday November 10 2013 12:56, you wrote to All:
WV> 1) What are your reasons to join the FTSC or stay in the FTSC if you WV> currently already are a member?
The job of the FTSC is not finished and although we can not expect big changes in Fidonet itself any more, the documentation is still incomplete. There are a couple of old proposals that never made it into a standard but that should have. E.g .EMSI and the type 2+ packet. Some involve legal issues, some involve unclearities in the specs themselves. There is still work to do. I think I can continue to make a contribution and that is why I run for another term.
WV> 2) What are your credentials and what is your history in fidonet and WV> real live, that makes you a valuable member of the FTSC?
Real life: I have a degree in physics and astronomy and was licensed as a nuclear medical physicist. I have worked in hospitals and physics research labs. In the late 80ties of the previous century, I switched from science to industry and designed among other things microprocessor based control units, wrote the firmware for it (assembler) and also the software for the PC's configuring the controllers. I have programming experience in Basic, Fortran, Algol, Pascal, Forth, C, C++, various assembler languages and some script langauges. Sorry, no Cobol.
Fidonet: I build my own 300 bps modem around 1978. My V23 home made modem was born a few years later. So when Fidonet was born and introduced in The Netherlands in 1985, I was ready to join as a user. In 1992 I became a point and not much later I became co-sysop of the Dutch TipTop gate (2:28/777). In that period I wrote several utilities for Fidonet, mostly node- and pointlist convertors. I became RPK28 in eh.. 1995?. I got my own node number in 1997 and I became an FTSC member in 2003.
WV> 3) Or more specific, what makes you a good documenter of current WV> practice? And what experience do you have with creating documentation?
Not only did I design microprocessor controllers, I also wrote the user manuals for them.
As for documenting Fidonet, I think you best judge for yourself. See the answer to question 5.
WV> 4) What contributions to the documentation do you intend to make once WV> you are chosen into the FTSC?
I intend to go on as I have been doing since I was elected in the FTSC in 2003.
WV> And for the returning candidates:
WV> 5) What contributions to the ftsc generated documentation did you make WV> in the last 2 years of your membership. Or if you didn't make any WV> contributions to the documentation, what did you contribute?
I already mentioned that in a previous message, so I will just cut and paste from that:
I am the author of the following documents:
FTS-5002 Pointlist formats FSP-1025 IPv6 colon substitution in the nodelist (now FRL-1019) FSP-1029 Serial number allocation in Message IDs FSP-1033 The ICM Flag (now FRL-1017) FSP-1036 IPv6 numbers in the nodelist (now FRL-1036) FSP-1038 The INO4 Flag
I am co-author of:
FTS-5001 Nodelist flags and user flags FTS-5003 Character set definitions in Fidonet messages FTS-5004 DNS Distributed Nodelist
