Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 06/05/2018 05:07 PM, Jan Claeys wrote: >> Being international/intercultural certainly has some value, but I think >> it's at least as useful to have people with different competencies and >> professional backgrounds. >> For example: having some people who have a background in something like >> psychology, sociology, education, law, human resources, marketing, etc. >> (in addition to the likely much easier to find developers, DBAs and IT >> managers) would be valuable too. > Oh, please no that would be a trip down the rabbit hole. Yeah. For my own 2 cents, it's important that the committee members be well known and trusted by the community-at-large; otherwise people will be afraid to submit reports, making all this work pointless. Combining that with the requirement for diversity is already going to make it a difficult exercise to assemble a perfect team. And then there's the matter of whether people want to serve at all --- this is likely to be a pretty thankless and unpleasant task, and one requiring the sort of soft skills that tend not to be in abundance in a collection of computer geeks ;-). So I suspect that the pool of potential members is not really very large. Plus, since we put a time limit on how long people can serve, we're going to need a fresh set of faces every couple years. So we shouldn't fool ourselves about how much we're going to be able to ask in terms of additional qualifications. regards, tom lane
