Hi, I'm Larry Kestenbaum (polygon), and I've been nominated for the board of directors. I live in Ann Arbor and would be able to attend meetings in person. I have been an active Grex user since the beginning, and served for a while as co-fairwitness of Agora. I have also been an M-Net user since 1990, though I'm not as active there as I used to be. I have also been a user of shell accounts on other Unix systems, including the server where my web sites reside. If I'm elected to the Grex board, I will be an advocate of responsible stewardship of the organization's resources, respect for the user community, and appreciation for the volunteer staff. I'm a research specialist at the U-M Institute for Social Research, and the webmaster of PoliticalGraveyard.com. I am also an attorney licensed in Michigan, though I'm not in active practice these days. I have a great deal of experience in committee-type work, including service on elected county boards in Ingham (1983-88) and Washtenaw (2000-02) counties, as well as numerous committees to those boards. I was also a board member for the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission, the Capital Area Substance Abuse Commission, the Capital Area Transportation Authority, the East Lansing Planning Commission, the Ann Arbor Historic District Commission, the East Lansing Historic District Study Committee, the Wayne State University Planning Committee, and quite a few others. I have served on the boards of several nonprofits. When M-Net was imperiled in the early 1990s, I was instrumental in creating Once and Future Systems (OAFS), and later negotiating its merger with Arbornet Inc. I was also a board member for the MSU Student Housing Corporation (housing co-ops), the Ann Arbor Historical Foundation, the Lansing Area Folksong Society (Ten Pound Fiddle), and the Looking Glass Music and Arts Association. In addition to being a board member, oftentimes I held offices such as chair, vice-chair, secretary, or committee chair. Over the last thirty years, I have chaired hundreds of meetings. In addition to The Political Graveyard, a popular political history site, I have also created the Nigerian Fraud Email Gallery. I write all my own HTML, and the only web-page-generating programs I use are the ones I wrote myself. I have a B.A. in Economics from Michigan State University, and a law degree from Wayne State University. I did graduate work at Cornell University in City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation. I have taught graduate courses in Historic Preservation Law, and in Data Management for Social Science Research. I also did many lectures on computer related topics (particularly computer security and viruses) in the MSU School of Criminal Justice; I also helped organize training for police personnel in computer related crime, and assisted in the creation of a degree program in industrial security. It wasn't my idea to be a candidate for the Grex/Cyberspace board. I do expect to be pretty busy during the coming year. However, I don't currently serve on any other boards, so I'm pretty sure I can fit this in.20 responses total.
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(I find it interesting how #0 started with "...board of directors. I live in Ann Arbor and would be able to attend meetings in person." Almost a subtle push toward voting for him because he's not a remote candidate.)
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I think it's a valid point to make, since electing a remote candidate will result in extra complications and quite possibly extra expenses.
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"I think it's a valid point to make, since electing a remote candidate will result in extra complications and quite possibly extra expenses." I think this is the point other tried to make in another item. When you're electing a board member, you want to elect the best person. And subtracting points based on localness isn't fair. The fair way to go is to come up with a solution that makes the factor of whether a board member is local or not a moot point in deciding whether or not to vote for him. However, ignoring the issue about how to deal with remote board members, and not coming up with a solution is going to prevent remote board members from being voted. It makes the whole policy amendment process moot.
There is a phone jack in the current meeting space. I _thought_ using it was one of the options we are investigating before the next Board meeting.
That option wasn't mentioned. There was mention of using Zingerman's wireless bandwidth.
I mentioned that I'm local to Ann Arbor because it is true. Whether it's a positive or negative factor in your voting decision is up to you. I plan to devote as much time to the job as it requires. If I don't have enough time available, I will resign. I don't expect it to be a problem, however.
Re resp:7: And subtracting points based on localness isn't fair. Life isn't fair. ;>
I am only too aware of that :( But I strive for fairness.
That's *your* opinion that it isn't "fair". You have your vote, use it any way you want to.
Yet another fool who doesn't believe in absolute truths.
I see where you stand. That's ok. I intend to use my vote the way I want to.
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It is fair to make one's decison based upon that, Sapna. What *isn't* fair is not allowing someone to run based upon their pladce of residence.
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TROGG IS DAVID BLAINE
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