Council

While most of us are busy doing holiday shoppings these days, Paradox is spending time engaging with parachain democracy and making open-sourced tools. We all know who spends time better. 

It seems that Paradox was inspired by a [recent Karura democracy discussion](https://karura.subsquare.io/democracy/proposal/2) and ventured to make an open-sourced tool to help nominators select validators based on user-specified criteria. 

According to his description, "This repository is dedicated to the development of a tool to help nominate validators from the Thousand Validator Programme. The selection criteria and frequency can be specified via a settings file (Settings.ts). Should this tool be used by a Parachain, it is envisaged that the parameters can be integrated into its chainstate and loaded (into this application) upon start up." 

The project repo is [here](https://github.com/paradox-tt/TVP_Nomination_Bot).

Here is his announcement [tweet](https://twitter.com/ParaNodes/status/1472731426978160640). 

Polkachu

https://twitter.com/ruitao_su/status/1208305894083022848

For an open-sourced tool to help nominators select validators based on user-specified criteria