On 22 Jul 2026, at 12:46, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 05:02 Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[email protected]> > wrote: >> First - I'd be wary of this as a concept - we are all volunteers -- being >> asked to join the PMC is both a trust thing -and- also something of an >> imposition or burden on that volunteer. They get extra responsibility and >> work. So - really -- not a promotion at all. > > Surely that's literally what a promotion is? What's a job promotion - more > responsibility and work along with extra trust or privilege.
This may be a cultural/language thing - but for me, the word promotion, is something akin to a higher step of a ladder, higher up in a hierarchy - where your output, word, work, etc is of more value than that of others - and where you get to command and delegate. Or when a call is to be made - the one with the promition makes it - is -expected- to amke it. They are sort of the opposite of a merit/expertise specialist of volunteers all doing peer to peer what each is good at / contributes to. > Promotion never means that you're somehow a better or more valuable person, > does it? In what context would it mean that? It may not mean that in American -- but to my foreign ear - that is exactly how it echos - a person that is `somehow more, better, etc' > I think the word is very apt here. Dw. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
