Todd Plesco Campaign Statement

Dec 3 18:02 UTC 2004

You'd find me a very active, persistent, and experienced board member.
I am a constant participant in the conferences and in party on Grex. 
Experience tells me the board should be more active in finding ways to 
combat spam and loss of members.

I was treasurer for Arbornet. 
I would be glad to be treasurer for Grex -- wouldn't mind it a
bit. Paying bills and doing monthly balance sheets is nothing new to me.

I have been on the board of Arbornet as President and other positions.
I was responsible in the oversight and project management of moving
M-Net to colocation at WWNet, moving the Arbornet office out of the 
highpriced New Center, organizing brunch fundraisers, and doing the first 
ever snail mail fundseeking from mailing lists provided from outside 
sources. I even oversaw the rebuild/acquisition of the new M-Net 
hardware in 2000 after our system was badly damaged after a hacking 
incident. My background with hardware and software is extensive.

I've worked on Sun server hardware (I donated a Sun 3 server to Grex 
back in 1997).  I currently work around IBM and various OSes from AIX to 
Linux and FreeBSD.  Most of my software experience involves websites and 
scripting.

My experience in politics and nonprofits is very diverse.  I've 
served on the SecureWorld Expo 2004 Seattle Executive Steering Council, 
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post boards, volunteered with
Veterans for Common Sense and Gulf War Veterans organizations, and am 
even a member of the Military Order of the Cootie (MOC) which is the 
honor degree bestowed upon the elite VFW members who have served as 
VFW leadership. 

Vote for me and I'll stick to an agenda to see the spam gets blocked, the 
new system comes up, and the membership improves.  I'll get things done.