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remmers
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Nominations for the Board of Directors
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Oct 27 02:30 UTC 1998 |
Nominations are now open for the Cyberspace Communications, Inc.
Board of Directors. In accordance with Article 4, Section d of the
Bylaws, nominations will close on November 15 and an online election
held December 1 through December 15. Terms of office begin on January
1, 1999, and are two years in length. Three seats are up for election
this time around.
Any current member of Grex who has paid at least 3 months' membership
dues is eligible to run for and serve on the Board unless they are
currently serving and are completing the second of two consecutive
terms. (People in the latter group are eligible to run again in
next year's election if they are still members at that time.)
The terms of four Board members have one more year to run: Mark
Conger (aruba), Dan Gryniewicz (dang), Scott Helmke (scott),
and Misti Tucker (mta). Therefore, there is no point in nominating
them.
The three Board members whose terms end on December 31 are Steve
Gibbard (scg), Valerie Mates (valerie), and Jan Wolter (janc).
Steve and Valerie will have completed two consecutive terms and
are therefore NOT eligible to run for re-election this time
(although they will be eligible next year). Jan will have served
only one term and may run for re-election.
Use this item to make nominations. To see the current membership list,
type
!members | more
if you are running Picospan. It is suggested that you check that a
potential nominee is eligible and is willing to serve before nominating
them.
The Bylaws are posted in item 2 of this conference and enumerate the
duties of directors.
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remmers
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response 1 of 126:
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Oct 27 02:32 UTC 1998 |
(I'll try to write a CGI that will allow Backtalk users to view the
membership list. I doubt I'll have time before next week though.)
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remmers
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response 2 of 126:
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Oct 27 02:37 UTC 1998 |
I should add that Board members should be able to attend the monthly
meetings, held in Ann Arbor.
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valerie
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response 3 of 126:
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Oct 27 03:22 UTC 1998 |
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valerie
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response 4 of 126:
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Oct 27 03:27 UTC 1998 |
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janc
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response 5 of 126:
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Oct 27 04:25 UTC 1998 |
Thanks to Valerie for nominating me. I happily accept.
Note: you are definately allowed to nominate yourself, and it is quite
usual to do so. The normal procedure in such cases is to accept the
nomination, but if you want, you may nominate yourself and then
respectfully decline.
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mdw
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response 6 of 126:
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Oct 27 05:23 UTC 1998 |
I'll nominate STeve Andre'.
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other
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response 7 of 126:
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Oct 27 05:48 UTC 1998 |
Thanks Valerie, for the nomination! I am inclined to accept, but I am not
sure that I would be able to guarantee my ability to attend board meetings.
Since I work in the field of performing arts production, many of my evenings
are unavailable, both weekday and weekend, and often on an unpredictable or
only partially predictable schedule. I would not like to impose upon the
membership the responsibility for replacing me due to an anticipatable
inability to perform the functions of the position, primarily, attending board
meetings.
This being stated, I think I *will* accept, and let the membership decide
whether it wants to take the risk of having to replace me.
Funny how the thought process is altered by the mere revelation of the thought
process itself... :)
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remmers
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response 8 of 126:
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Oct 27 13:10 UTC 1998 |
Seconds aren't needed, but I'll second Jan's nomination anyway. I think
he's done an outstanding job as board member and chairperson.
Re resp:4 - Actually I said I wouldn't be able to get to it until *next*
week, but thanks for writing the CGI anyway. Saved me some trouble.
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remmers
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response 9 of 126:
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Oct 28 00:12 UTC 1998 |
Keep in mind also that this time, at least two people *must* be
elected who are not currently serving on the board.
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valerie
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response 10 of 126:
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Oct 28 03:30 UTC 1998 |
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atticus
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response 11 of 126:
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Oct 29 00:20 UTC 1998 |
I nominate Cynthia Keesan (I haven't checked with her, though).
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scott
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response 12 of 126:
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Oct 31 14:52 UTC 1998 |
I nominate John Remmers.
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other
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response 13 of 126:
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Nov 2 03:53 UTC 1998 |
I second that.
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keesan
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response 14 of 126:
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Nov 3 20:36 UTC 1998 |
I decline the nomination because I know next to nothing about computers, but
thank you, Sreeni. I will confine myself to helping Jim introduce computer
illiterates to the joys of grex. Someone asked us to help set up computers
for their organization, which would like to help brain-damaged people find
new ways to socialize. Many of them can type okay.
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valerie
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response 15 of 126:
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Nov 4 13:18 UTC 1998 |
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keesan
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response 16 of 126:
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Nov 4 15:39 UTC 1998 |
Yes you do. I do not understand enough of the words to be able to vote on
the concepts involved. Your idea of 'anything' may be different from mine.
I still don't know how to use DOS, let alone UNIX.
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aruba
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response 17 of 126:
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Nov 4 16:40 UTC 1998 |
Actually, it would be very helpful to have a complete not-computer person on
the board, because it might force the more hardcore techies to limit their
technical digressions. :)
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