[TriLUG] nomination deadline for Steering Elections extended

[Tanner Lovelace]

Cristobal,

There is ample precedent for taking nominations from the floor
at the meeting where the election is held.  Hopefully that will
still be the case?

In any event, though, if you've ever thought to yourself, "dang! I
could do better than these bozos" here's your chance! (No offense
to current bozos in office, they're certainly no worse than
previous "bozos" who used to be in office.. ;-)  The LUG could
really use new people to step up and take responsibility for the
LUG.  So, volunteer!

Cheers,
Tanner

On 5/7/07, Cristóbal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> 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,
> --
> Cristóbal M. Palmer
> administrator!!! please hope me!
> --
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