[TriLUG] nomination deadline for Steering Elections extended

Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail.com
Mon May 7 15:23:21 EDT 2007


Sounds like someone cares enough about the lug to say something.
Perhaps you'd care to run for the SC also? O:-)

Cheers,
Tanner

On 5/7/07, jason <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
> hey! this aint ebay!
>
> u sniper!
>
>
>
> Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> > when (finalSteeringCommitteeNominationDeadlineTimestamp-1 == now() &&
> > numNominees < 5) {
> >    nominate(self);
> > }
> >
> > -Andy
> >
> > Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> >> This email would have gone out sooner, but we had a disk failure on
> >> our web/list/mail server. Please accept my apologies. Thanks also to
> >> Tanner Lovelace, Kevin Otte and Matt Frye for their work to get us
> >> back up and running.
> >>
> >> = Executive Summary =
> >>
> >> The deadline for Steering Committee nominations has been pushed back.
> >> It is now Wed May 9 21:00:00 EDT 2007. That's nine PM (9:00 PM) the
> >> evening of this coming Wednesday. Please email the list, me, or fill
> >> out the form at http://www.trilug.org/contact to nominate yourself or
> >> someone else.
> >>
> >> = Full Text =
> >>
> >> The deadline set for nominations for the Steering Committee election
> >> has passed. It was posted here: http://www.trilug.org/node/50. After
> >> reviewing our Articles of Incorporation
> >>
> >> http://www.trilug.org/articlesofincorporation
> >>
> >> I realized that for annual elections there is no stipulation that
> >> nominations be received by some fixed point before the election. For
> >> elections to fill a vacancy there is such a stipulation (10 days).
> >>
> >> I and other members of the Steering Committee feel that it's important
> >> to have a deadline if we're going to have ballots printed that make it
> >> reasonably easy to vote (and, just as importantly, count the vote)
> >> quickly and accurately. That said, we've only received two (2)
> >> nominations so far, and there are five (5) posts.
> >>
> >> I'm not going to try to push people into running for the Steering
> >> Committee, since I'd sooner help run the LUG shorthanded than have
> >> people on board who aren't really interested, but we'll be in
> >> uncharted territory without five people, and frankly it'll be rather
> >> sad to win my post by default, to say nothing of the meta-messages
> >> about our group and its direction. I'm going to resist the urge to
> >> soapbox further.
> >>
> >> We, the Steering Committee, have therefore decided that the deadline
> >> for nominations should be pushed back. The deadline is now Wed May  9
> >> 21:00:00 EDT 2007. That's nine PM (9:00 PM) of this Wednesday evening.
> >> If you have some strong feelings about any of this, I suggest you
> >> speak up (or email, or call, etc.) now and not Wednesday.
> >>
> >> Please feel free to nominate someone (yes, you can nominate yourself)
> >> any of three ways:
> >>
> >> (1) fill out the form: http://www.trilug.org/contact
> >> (2) send an email to a steering committee member (that includes me and
> >> other people listed at http://www.trilug.org/about-steering)
> >> (3) Send an email to the list (trilug at trilug.org)
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >
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-- 
Tanner Lovelace
clubjuggler at gmail dot com
http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
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