Nominations are now open for the Cyberspace Communications, Inc. Board of
Directors. In accordance with Article 4, Section d of the Bylaws, nominations
were supposed to close on November 15 and an online election be held December
1 through December 15.  Unfortunately, I misremembered the timeline, so I'm
opening the nominations late.  Unless overruled, I will run the election from
December 7 to December 22, the usual fifteen days, just one week later than
required.

Terms of office begin on January 1, 2009, and are two years in length. Three
seats are up for election this time around.
 
Grex membership is a requirement for serving on the Board. Any current member
of Grex who has paid at least 3 months' membership dues and meets state of
Michigan eligibility requirements may 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: Denise Anderson
(denise), Steve Andre (steve), Mark Conger (aruba), and Chuck Martin
(unicorn). Hence there is no point in nominating any of them.
 
The two board members whose terms end on December 31 are Dan Cross (cross)
and Colleen McGee (cmcgee).  Both are eligible for another term as Director.
The third seat open this year is currently vacant.

To appear on the ballot, a person must be nominated in this item by November
30 and affirmatively accept the nomination in this item before the start of
voting on December 7.  Seconds are not required.  Self-nominations are
permitted and will be interpreted as active acceptance of the nomination.

37 responses total.

I nominate myself (gelinas).

I also nominate Mary Remmers (mremmers) and Jeanne Manigold (furs).

I nominate:

 Dan Cross (cross)
 Coleen McGee (cmcgee)
 Todd Plesco (tod), 
 S. Lynne Fremont (slynne)
 John H. Remmers (remmers)
 Mike McNally (mcnally)
 Sindi Keesan (keesan)
 Rane Curl (rcurl)
 John Ellis Perry Jr. (jep)
 Marc VanHeyningen (marcvh)
 TS Taylor (tsty)
 Jan Wolter (janc)
 Ken Josenhans (krj)
 Tony Chamberlain (chamberl)
 April M. Morrison (hera)
 Greg Russo (jerryr)
 Dan Zatkovich (tanis)
 Kevin Nicholls (twinkie)
 Rex A. Roof (trex)
 Rick Root (ric)
 Anthony Schneider (styles)
 
 ...and the users known as triluda, cdalten, polytarp, scholar, 
 cyklone, bellstar, jvmv, lar, and zulu.

I accept.

 I decline.

I guess nharmon pretty much nominated every Grex account showing signs of
life. Is there a secret message to that?

I also nominate bellstar.

You already did that on #2. Thank you. But of course I am not a member and
I also am unable of doing anything for Grex requiring physical presence which
is probably the thing Grex needs above all--physical presence and caring of
its core members.

The two Grex members I have actually seen doing things for Grex are cross and
gelinas. I propose their nominations and will also vote for them if given a
chance.

I'd like to include Glenda in the list of nominations.

i nominate polytarp and nate harmon (nharmon) as well as his dopplegaegner,
nhardon (nate hardon).

i also nominate mary and john remmers from the remmers family (always kosher,
never fresh!) and tsty (otherwise known as lkjh when he can't spell the
former).

the former .....  tsty
  
i accept and if elected will pay 100% of a years membership between
election and taking office. (i hope there is a week's time between - if there
isn;t, i;ll pay the year's membership at the first available oppeorunity
and before the first meeting is called to order.)
 
 tnx nhard ... and naft ...

I nominate the user known as mickeyd.

Nominations are closed.  Three have accepted nominations: tsty, gelinas and
cross.  Others may still accept in the next few days.

I've given it some thought and will pass on running for the BOD this time 
around.  Thanks for the nominations though. 

I am not eligible, as I am not a member.

I would not run anyway, as I perceive a conflict of interest for me.  I
am a member of the Board of Directors of Arbornet.

I do appreciate Grex and wish it the best, along with all who make
themselves available for it's Board of Directors.

resp:15 Just out of curiosity, why do you see this as a conflict of
interest?

M-Net and Grex compete with one another for attention and money from
mostly the same group of users.  They offer the same services, use the
same software and are centered in the same community.  We don't have any
conflicts with one another but just as a general rule, I think it's best
for me to be a member of just one Board.  Others may make their own
decisions on that and I think they are free to do so.  This is what
works for me.

Okay, fair enough.

I apologise for the delays in this election, and for the short notice.

We have three candidates for three seats: tsty, gelinas and cross.  So I'm
going to open the polls at midnight tonight and leave them open for one week,
until midnight Monday, Dec 22, 2008.  That should be enough time for any one
who wants to vote.

The web booth will open as soon as I can figure out how to add the links
to the grex home page.

I can't figure out the xhtml, and the polls will only be open for a few more
days, so the web polls won't open.  I apologise for any inconvenience.

if there is no web poll, how else can ppl vote - what method - 
instructions ????
  

type the 'vote' command at the command line like people have been doing
forever....

might want to put #22 into the MOTD??  some ppl might not know as
much as you do .... adn yu know one hulluva lot so my thinker is
still werking jurst fyne ... 

ilove grex.org  :)

The votes have been counted, and the three candidates were elected: Each
received four votes from members.  The tally of the twelve ballots is:

Candidate       Member          Non-member      Total
tsty              4                 3              7
cross             4                 7             11      
gelinas           4                 8             12      

We once again have seven Directors of the corporation.

Nice.  Thanks to Joe, TS & Dan.

Congrats to the new board members!

I won!  I won!  Oh, wait....

Reality sets in. ;-)

Yeah, the reality that, if anyone at all voted for me, I couldn't have
lost....  :-/

Which, in a sense, is a bad thing.  I mean, not vis-a-vis me, but rather in
the sense that it means that almost nobody was running.  What's up with that?

I guess we do have a thankless job, in some people's minds, at least.

I guess the question I have is whether it's in anybody's mind at all, other
than a very small few.  The idea that it might not be is what worries me.

One of the things to be discussed at January's meeting, I think.

wow ... now for the earmarks .... ! whooppee!

Congratulations folks. I'll refrain from saying you deserve it. But I _will_
say thanks!

It's time to freeze this item: it has fulfilled its purpose.

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