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remmers
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Nominations for the 2005 Grex Board of Directors
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Oct 20 19:54 UTC 2004 |
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 will be held December 1 through December 15. Terms of
office begin on January 1, 2005, 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:
S. Lynne Fremont (slynne), Bruce Howard (bhoward), Larry
Kestenbaum (polygon), and Mary Remmers (mary). Hence there is
no point in nominating any of them.
The three board members whose terms end on December 31 are
Mark Conger (aruba), Joe Gelinas (gelinas), and Anne Perry
(mooncat). Joe Gelinas is completing his first term and is
eligible to run for re-election. Mark Conger and Anne Perry
are completing the second of two consecutive terms and are
therefore *not* eligible to run this time, although they can
run in future elections.
To appear on the ballot, a person must be nominated in this
item by November 15 and affirmatively accept the nomination
in this item before the start of voting on December 1. Seconds
are not required. Self-nominations are permitted.
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mfp
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response 1 of 188:
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Oct 20 20:53 UTC 2004 |
I nominate Anne Perry.
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mooncat
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response 2 of 188:
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Oct 20 21:05 UTC 2004 |
I nominate Joe Gelinas, he's been great on the board and think he
should stick around for another term.
(thanks for the nomination, but I'm not eligible. :) I served my time,
I'm free damnit!! well, almost...)
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aruba
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response 3 of 188:
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Oct 20 23:15 UTC 2004 |
I second the nomination of Joe Gelinas. I'd also like to nominate John
Remmers.
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mfp
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response 4 of 188:
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Oct 20 23:27 UTC 2004 |
I nominate Mark A Conger.
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gelinas
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response 5 of 188:
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Oct 21 01:55 UTC 2004 |
I gratefully accept the nomination. :)
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keesan
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response 6 of 188:
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Oct 21 02:29 UTC 2004 |
I nominate Scott Helmke. I would be happy to nominate Jan but I bet he is
too busy.
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cross
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response 7 of 188:
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Oct 21 03:11 UTC 2004 |
I second the nominations of John Remmers and Scott Helmke, and third the
nomination of Joe Gelinas. I'm with Sindi on Jan.
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mfp
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response 8 of 188:
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Oct 21 03:22 UTC 2004 |
I nominate Jan Wolter, Sindi Loo Keesan, Valerie Mates with Krauts, Joel
Joelinas, and Danielle Cross.
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scott
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response 9 of 188:
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Oct 21 05:12 UTC 2004 |
Thank you for the nomination Sindi, but I'm not interested in running.
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mfp
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response 10 of 188:
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Oct 21 05:22 UTC 2004 |
I nominate Scott Helmke, Form Empl E., and myself.
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albaugh
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response 11 of 188:
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Oct 21 05:46 UTC 2004 |
Since aruba is out again (sigh - unless he is happy to be out) note that
someone from the board will have to succeed him as treasurer effective
January 2005.
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mfp
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response 12 of 188:
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Oct 21 05:50 UTC 2004 |
I nominate Kevin Albaugh.
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richard
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response 13 of 188:
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Oct 21 06:07 UTC 2004 |
The membership could vote to add an extra seat to the board of directors,
which would be a permanent board seat assigned to the treasurer. With the
proviso that the treasurer only ever votes as a board member to break a
tie. The treasurer would not vote to make quorum or for any other reason.
It would be for most intents and purposes a non-voting board position. Or
just change the bylaws to say that the treasurer doesn't necessarily have
to be a member of the board.
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richard
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response 14 of 188:
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Oct 21 06:10 UTC 2004 |
Inasmuch as precedent has been set and grex accepts out of state board
members who attend the meeting by telephone, I nominate Morena Timm, aka
Munkey. She runs the grexergallery.net page. can't think of anyone more
committed to this place than she is.
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naftee
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response 15 of 188:
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Oct 21 06:40 UTC 2004 |
I nominate Richard J. Wallner.
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happyboy
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response 16 of 188:
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Oct 21 07:45 UTC 2004 |
i nominate richard wallner too.
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richard
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response 17 of 188:
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Oct 21 08:08 UTC 2004 |
thanks but no thanks, I'm too much of an anarchist to be on the
board. :)
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mfp
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response 18 of 188:
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Oct 21 15:33 UTC 2004 |
I nominate Richard J. Wallner, Jim Daloonik, and Reverend Dalvador Dali
Parton, though not necessarily in that order.
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naftee
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response 19 of 188:
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Oct 22 01:27 UTC 2004 |
I second the nomination for the Reverend Partoon.
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mfp
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response 20 of 188:
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Oct 22 04:46 UTC 2004 |
I fully nominate Jim Daloonik.
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janc
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response 21 of 188:
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Oct 22 14:13 UTC 2004 |
I regret that I can't run this time. I think the next Grex board is one that
is going to have some work to do. With Grex's revenues dipping the time has
come to make some changes, and the board is going to have to be in the drivers
seat on many of these.
I think Grex needs to move out of the pumpkin. We need to be looking for a
lower cost location with better network bandwidth. My preference of all the
options I've heard discussed would be the Ann Arbor District Library. I think
that is doable, but it is going to require quite a lot of legwork and
saleswork to get that deal done. I bet there are other non-commerical options
that might also be possible, and finding those will require even more energy.
Commercial co-location is also a viable alternative, and the deal is likely
easier to make, but still not trivial.
I still like the retroGrex idea, but it probably isn't compatible with moving
out of the pumpkin. I think if we do retroGrex we'd probably have to house
it someplace like somebody's basement. It could still be retro.grex.org even
if it wasn't in the same physical place as grex.org.
I think we also need to do some creative thinking about the services Grex
provides. I hope to be working on some of these issues from a technical end,
doing things like RSS and email notification which have a chance of increasing
usership of the conferences. But there are policy issues here too.
So I think we need a board that is more active than usual at this juncture
if Grex is going to return to a growth mode rather than continuing to dwindle.
I'm not exactly sure who the right people are. One obvious candidate,
if he's willing, would be Dave Cahill.
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mfp
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response 22 of 188:
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Oct 22 14:40 UTC 2004 |
I nominate Jan Wolter.
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naftee
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response 23 of 188:
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Oct 22 21:27 UTC 2004 |
I completely and utterly nominate More Femme Please, our Form Empl E.
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richard
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response 24 of 188:
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Oct 23 03:30 UTC 2004 |
I'll nominate krj because well, I can't pester him about running unless
he's nominated :) But actually most who end up in Party during the
lurking hours know that krj is a fine source for learning about grex's
history, as he's been around longer than most as he's been around here for
years. He'd be a fine board member.
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