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Grex > Coop12 > #49: Nominations for the Board of Directors | |
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remmers
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response 2 of 332:
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Oct 18 15:12 UTC 2001 |
I nominate Jan Wolter (janc).
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other
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response 3 of 332:
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Oct 18 15:22 UTC 2001 |
Damnit, Dave! Do you have to be so darn *quick* about it?
(Was that cash or check?)
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aruba
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response 4 of 332:
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Oct 18 16:03 UTC 2001 |
Correction to #0: To be eligible to run for the board, a member need not
have paid for three consecutive months. However, to be eligible to *vote*,
a member needs to have paid for at least 3 consecutive months.
I nominate Colleen McGee.
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remmers
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response 5 of 332:
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Oct 18 16:29 UTC 2001 |
Oops, you're correct. The 3-month requirement applies to voting
eligibility.
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janc
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response 6 of 332:
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Oct 19 14:04 UTC 2001 |
Hmmm. I'm still undecided about this. I like being on the board. Its fun.
But most of the actual agenda I have for Grex (mostly hardware and software
upgrades) I can pursue just as effectively as a staff member as as a board
member. So I don't think being on board really enables me to increase my
contribution to Grex much. So in a way it would be a waste of a board seat
that could otherwise be filled by someone who isn't otherwise in a position
to contribute to Grex.
So for the moment I'll leave my name off the ballot, reserving the right to
change my mind if the direction of the wind changes.
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aruba
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response 7 of 332:
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Oct 19 15:33 UTC 2001 |
I'll nominate Mary Remmers.
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mary
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response 8 of 332:
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Oct 19 17:20 UTC 2001 |
I'll accept the nomination.
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mary
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response 9 of 332:
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Oct 19 17:21 UTC 2001 |
Thanks, Mark.
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scott
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response 10 of 332:
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Oct 19 18:29 UTC 2001 |
(Mary accepted?!!??)
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aruba
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response 11 of 332:
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Oct 19 22:20 UTC 2001 |
Great!
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spooked
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response 12 of 332:
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Oct 20 03:38 UTC 2001 |
Is it possible to change the bylaws sometime in the future so we can have
non-local board members? Afterall, we are net litterate.
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aruba
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response 13 of 332:
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Oct 20 04:27 UTC 2001 |
The issue is attendence at board meetings. If we had a good system for
allowing non-local people to participate in board meetings in real time, I
think it would work to have non-local board members. That would mean a
conference call, I guess.
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styles
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response 14 of 332:
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Oct 20 07:39 UTC 2001 |
conference calls do work.
i am a non-local board member for m-net, and three way calling works out
fine.
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spooked
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response 15 of 332:
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Oct 20 07:48 UTC 2001 |
Yup, yup - something like that was my idea... I'd definately "attend" in
real-time, via bits - netmeeting, or something along those lines. Maybe
we could set up a board meeting sometime, with netmeeting attendant
capibility?
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pfv
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response 16 of 332:
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Oct 20 08:13 UTC 2001 |
(I'm minded of the flat-screens & cameras mounted around the conference
table in "Demolition Man" ;-)
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aruba
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response 17 of 332:
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Oct 21 01:41 UTC 2001 |
The room we currently meet in is in a restaurant, and doesn't have a phone
line available that we could take calls on. We'd need to find a different
room or a cell phone with speaker capability (does such a thing exist?)
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other
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response 18 of 332:
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Oct 21 06:48 UTC 2001 |
Hmm. An option might be to obtain access to Zingermans' wireless network
-- an option suggested by Jared Mauch at the last board meeting.
Of course, this would restrict us to meeting within the range of their
wireless access point unless we can come up with a comparable
alternative.
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aruba
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response 19 of 332:
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Oct 21 16:15 UTC 2001 |
(Jared wasn't at the last board meeting.)
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other
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response 20 of 332:
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Oct 21 17:33 UTC 2001 |
He was in the next room.
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aruba
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response 21 of 332:
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Oct 21 21:45 UTC 2001 |
OK...
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mdw
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response 22 of 332:
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Oct 22 00:54 UTC 2001 |
Lots of places have wireless connections. But it is still another
restriction...
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keesan
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response 23 of 332:
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Oct 22 01:16 UTC 2001 |
Can't you meet in someone's home? (I would offer my house but it is not yet
heated.) Maybe the out of town board members could even get some sort of
computer (free) phone service set up.
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mary
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response 24 of 332:
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Oct 22 01:21 UTC 2001 |
I'd like to nominate Dave Lovelace (davel) and Scott Helmke (scott).
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aruba
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response 25 of 332:
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Oct 22 04:00 UTC 2001 |
I'll second those nominations.
Sindi: Yes, we could do that. I gather the founders used to meet a lot in
people's houses.
Experience has shown, however, that when the meeting is in a public place,
especially one with food, random Grexers are much more likely to show up to
meetings. The more people that show up, the more lively things are, and I'm
all for that.
That said, if it wasn't for the fact that Zingerman's allows us to have a
room to ourselves, i would have pushed for moving to someone's home a long
time ago. I find it very hard to hear other people and to concentrate when
trying to have a meeting in the middle of lots of people having unrelated
conversations.
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davel
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response 26 of 332:
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Oct 22 13:20 UTC 2001 |
I'm afraid I'll decline the nomination, Mary & Mark. But thanks.
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