Nominations for Special Election to Grex Board of Directors

Jan 24 17:05 UTC 2007

Nominations are now open for the Cyberspace Communications, Inc. Board 
of Directors. Nominations will close at Midnight February 5 and an 
online election will be held from Midnight February 7, 2007 through 
Midnight February 21, 2007. Terms of office begin on January 1, 2007, 
and are two years in length. This is a special election, authorized by 
the Board of Directors to fill the seat vacated by John Remmers.

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.

To appear on the ballot, a person must be nominated in this item by 
Midnight February 5 and affirmatively accept the nomination in this 
item before the start of voting on February 7.  Seconds are not 
required.  Self-nominations are permitted.

See http://cyberspace.org/local/grex/bod.html for a history of Board 
service since 1996.

(***This post is heavily plagiarized from previous coop items - Thanks 
Remmers!***)

response 2 of 57:

Jan 24 17:28 UTC 2007

I also nominate scholar

response 4 of 57:

Jan 24 17:37 UTC 2007

I second for twenex, munkey and mcnally.

response 6 of 57:

Jan 24 17:56 UTC 2007

I would also like to nominate:

Jeanne Manigold (furs),
John Ellis Perry Jr. (jep),
James P. Howard (jp2),
Larry Smith (lar),
TS Taylor (tsty),
Sindi Keesan (keesan),
Jim Deigert (jim),
Jim Daloonik (naftee),
Marc VanHeyningen (marcvh),
Rex Roof (trex)

response 8 of 57:

Jan 24 19:34 UTC 2007

I accept my nominations.

response 10 of 57:

Jan 24 21:32 UTC 2007

Jep knows that, but has stated that he does not wish to be a member right now
because of grex's large surplus of cash: he does not think that grex needs
members to be paying dues at the moment.

response 12 of 57:

Jan 25 02:08 UTC 2007

thanks for the nomination, nate, but unless the ID rule gets changed for
members here, i won't be eligible

response 14 of 57:

Jan 31 19:10 UTC 2007

I rescind my candidacy for the Board election.

response 16 of 57:

Jan 31 21:14 UTC 2007

Awesome, cmcgee!

response 18 of 57:

Feb 1 02:25 UTC 2007

Glad to hear it, Colleen.

response 20 of 57:

Feb 1 02:54 UTC 2007

It looks like chamberl and cmcgee have accepted so far, with roughly six days
to go.

response 22 of 57:

Feb 2 03:49 UTC 2007

Unless !member is out of date -- which, well, wouldn't surprise me -- neither
chamberl nor cmcgee have paid their membership dues and are hence inelligible
to run for the Board.

Also, I apologize for my flakiness, but I reaccept my nominations to run for
the Board.

While one person out of isn't going to have much effect as far as voting goes,
I am running in the hopes of making Grex a more welcoming place for both new
users and those who have become disaffected with certain aspects of Grex's
current power structure which, I believe, has caused many talented and vital
members and potential members of the community to decline to provide their
services to Grex and, worse, participate in its community.

While at times I seem to be more or less antagonistic to Grex, I've been a
consistent member for years and I want it to thrive like it did before I even
arrived.

In short, if elected, I intend to shake things up as much as possible.

response 24 of 57:

Feb 2 04:36 UTC 2007

If I had more computer knowledge and a current member, I'd consider helping
out. But since I can't run, I'll just do what I can in my own way in keeping
some of the community feeling up and running. :-)