>If you look at who is on the committee, anyone from here selected for the new spot is probably going to be one dissenting vote. It's going to be an old timer who has been active on the speaking / book writing circuit. In fact I have a pretty strong suspicion who it is going to be. (No, I am not going to speculate publicly, so please don't ask).

There's no point in speculating since the process has just started: first we finalize the committee, then we ask for nominations from the community, then the committee selects from those nominations.

Doug