Nominations for the 2006 Grex Board of Directors

Oct 22 18:45 UTC 2005

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, 2006, and are two years in length.
Four 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 three board members have one more year to run:
Joe Gelinas (gelinas), Steve Van Loon (vanloons), and David
Cahill (dpc).  Hence there is no point in nominating any of them.

The four board members whose terms end on December 31 are
S. Lynne Fremont (slynne), Mary Remmers (mary), Bruce Howard
(bhoward), and Larry Kestenbaum (polygon).  Mary Remmers is
completing the second of two consecutive terms and is
therefore *not* eligible to run this time, although she can
run in future elections.  The other three are completing a
first term and can run for re-election.

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.  

response 2 of 115:

Oct 22 19:08 UTC 2005

I will accept my nomination and will second everyone else's there. 

response 4 of 115:

Oct 22 23:44 UTC 2005

I am more than happy to make the following nominations:  that of remmers (user
remmers), that of S. Lynne (user S. Lynne), and that of naftee (user asw).

response 6 of 115:

Oct 23 23:49 UTC 2005

I would like to nominate the following Grexers for the 2006 Grex Board
of Directors: 

Todd Plesco (tod)
Amichai Jeffrey Rollin (twenex)
Sean Granger (granger)

response 8 of 115:

Oct 24 00:20 UTC 2005

(Wait, I can't; I'm not a member anymore.  Nevermind.)

response 10 of 115:

Oct 24 02:12 UTC 2005

I respectfully decline.

response 12 of 115:

Oct 24 06:40 UTC 2005

slynne is curropt and did bad things with volley, the only thing she should 
be running is fat ass to get on a diet. seriously slynne should be allowed
to run for anything she is a evil liar and not worthy to run.

response 14 of 115:

Oct 24 14:48 UTC 2005

Re #8:  You don't have to be a member to nominate people.

response 16 of 115:

Oct 24 23:38 UTC 2005

I nominate Aitch (H) *hugs* remmers. (phD)

response 18 of 115:

Oct 25 16:18 UTC 2005

 Thank you for the nomination but I respectfully decline.

response 20 of 115:

Oct 28 00:37 UTC 2005

 Between work and house renovations I'm already fairly busy and am
 reluctant to add more time commitments when my recreation time is
 already regrettably scarce.  I've already got a volunteer role on
 Grex (as staff) that I so far haven't been able to give much time.

 I'm not sure how you manage it, Bruce, but I've also got concerns
 about the time zone factor.  With a four hour time shift between
 Ann Arbor and Alaska I fear weekday evening meetings would 
 conflict with the tail end of my workday.

 I'll reconsider in the future when the time commitment required by
 my house settles down a bit but at the moment I don't think it would
 be a good idea.

response 22 of 115:

Nov 1 05:36 UTC 2005

GOOD LUCJ THIS TIME AROUND< TOID

response 24 of 115:

Nov 1 19:12 UTC 2005

I'd like to announce that I support the todd campaign, though I don't think
he's done enough since the last election (where I also supported him) to sway
the opinions of thick-headed Grexers who don't seem to realise he's the best
thing that could possibly happen to Grex.

Todd, the issue of Grex crashing every two days seems to be more one to do
with PEOPLE than with technology.  It seems pretty clear that crashing every
two days is something indicative of a SERIOUS PROBLEM and that this serious
problem probably wouldn't be all that hard to fix.  However, Grex's staff
seems to insist on merely restarting the system every other day -- which,
probably, is going to end up taking up more time than merely fixing the
problem once and for all -- rather than trying to tackle the problem this all
poses.  What, as a board member, will YOU do to make sure the potentially
serious problem is fixed and will not cripple Grex?