Board elections: 3 seats up

As per our by-laws and resolution 2004-08-10.dbg.2 , three board seats
will be up for election at this year's Annual Board meeting on July 1st.

At that time, anyone who wishes to run for any of these seats, including
any interested incumbents, will be asked to send a position statement to
the Secretary. These position statements will be collected and posted from
the 1st to the 13th of July. From the 15th to the 28th of July, voting
will take place.

After the election results are posted, the Board will select from among
its members the executive (president, vp, treasurer, secretary).

http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/resolution-2004-08-10.dbg.2

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David Graham, SPI Secretary
cdlu(at)spi-inc(dot)org D5F45889

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:13:41PM -0400, David Graham - SPI Secretary wrote:
> As per our by-laws and resolution 2004-08-10.dbg.2, three board seats
> will be up for election at this year's Annual Board meeting on July 1st.

I'm not sure if it's been said explicitly elsewhere, but if so I haven't
noticed, so maybe others haven't either -- anyway, the three SPI board
members whose terms are expiring are John Goerzen, Benjamin Mako Hill
and Bruce Perens. For anywone who /really/ hasn't been paying attention,
John's currently the President of SPI, and Mako is the Vice-President
and also has the somewhat SPI related position of "Debian accountant".

John, Mako and Bruce were elected in February 2003 by about 140 SPI
members; the terms for the remaining board members, namely Martin (Joey)
Schulze, Ian Jackson, David Graham, Jimmy Kaplowitz, Bdale Garbee and
Branden Robinson, all expire at next year's annual meeting.

As well, aiui, Jimmy is intending not to continue in his role as treasurer
(though is expecting to remain on the board), and I think David might be
hoping to hand over the role of secretary too once the new board elects
its officers.

According to

http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/votes/vote5/nominations/

the nominations so far have been Michael Schultheiss, Josh Berkus and
Joerg Jaspert; though I'm led to believe that the incumbents are planning
on running again too. So far, David Graham is the only non-DD on the board
(ever), and Josh Berkus is currently the only candidate who's not a DD.

Apparently the annual meeting has been delayed (due to lack of quorum)
until the 11th, which is just two days before nominations for the three
seats close (the 13th).

HTH.

Cheers,
aj

<quote who="Anthony Towns" date="Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:30:28PM +1000">
> I'm led to believe that the incumbents are planning on running again
> too.

I mentioned at previous board member that I was considering it. I
considered it and decided to take at least a year off for a number of
reasons but also because I think a little bit of fresh blood might do
the SPI board some good. :)

For those that do not read Planet Debian, I wrote a rather extensive
blog entry on my decision that included a restrospective of my term
and some thoughts about the future of SPI. You can read it here:

http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/freesoftware/20060705-00.html

I plan on staying involved and am open to considering running again
next year or at some other point in the future.

Regards,
Mako

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Benjamin Mako Hill
mako(at)debian(dot)org
http://mako.cc/