Many thanks for your kind words :-)

I'm curious to see what the team decides. There may be reasons for not choosing a witness as a Steem representative. However, I think that the witnesses in particular can represent the Steem well if they are not only technically involved. On the other hand, the position should not be a "promotional event" for a witness. That's why I only mentioned this in my application in passing for the sake of completeness and removed the explicit reference from my footer.