Interesting topic. Sensitive, but well raised and definitely worth discussing. My general feeling is that we need community representatives that have stronger voices in the TSC to favour the community’s interests. I would like to see also more of this from existing members.
Besides showing up in these meetings and conveying requests, I believe that these representatives should also be engaging much (much!) more in tech discussions concerning the project and while advocating for community’s interests (e.g. from the ones I kickstarted, except for some side interactions with @brettpac, there’s been very little reaction from community representatives to REP-2008 RFC, REP-2008 round 2 and REP-2014) .
I can advocate for @brettpac. He’s approached me several times and offered to help and to bring topics to TSC. I believe he’s fairly involved and he’s starting and driving community efforts [1] [2].