From elections at baylisa.org Wed Nov 8 19:42:44 2006 From: elections at baylisa.org (BayLISA Election Staff) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:42:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: BayLISA Elections : How To Vote! Message-ID: <200611090342.kA93gio8008625@www.baylisa.org> Hi all, As mentioned in the last email, we are now sending out details of how to vote in the upcoming BayLISA board elections. Voting methods ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are two methods for recording your vote. 1) Turn up to the november general meeting and vote in person As usual, a table will be setup at the november meeting, with a ballot box and some helpful people sitting behind it. The November general meeting is Thursday, November 16th. You need only give the folks at the ballot table your name and have them verify that you're a member, and then you can drop your vote in the ballot box. 2) Send an email ballot to vote at baylisa.org Note : THIS IS NOT ANONYMOUS OR SECRET. Well, inasmuch as somebody will count the vote and verify you are who you say you are, so they can concievably connect name with vote. Really though, thats not going to happen. For next year we'll have a better online voting mechanism, but it takes much review to do that right and this way at least theres some method for folks to vote online if they choose. It will help greatly if you can email vote at baylisa.org from the email address we have on-file in your member record. If for whatever reason this isn't possible, we'll attempt to sort out who you are manually based on whatever email address you send from. The membership isn't large enough for this to be a difficult task. EXTRA BONUS !! You can start voting by email right away, and voting will continue up to the end of the November general meeting. EXTRA SUPER BONUS!! You can even just reply to this email, and it will be sent to vote@, vote early vote often. etc... (assuming I got the reply-to header correct) Candidates ~~~~~~~~~~ So far, we have four candidates who have expressed an interest, and there are two seats up for grabs. The candidates are : o Bruce Coston o Rob Markovic o Heather Stern o James 'Mikey' Turner As always there is a 'write in' entry on the ballot. In other words you can really vote for anyone you like. The only caveat is they have to be a member to take their seat if elected. You should vote for up to two candidates. The two candidates with the largest total votes will win. Thanks, Election Staff From ahorn at deorth.org Tue Nov 14 20:51:22 2006 From: ahorn at deorth.org (Alan Horn) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:51:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: Meeting (and election!) reminder Message-ID: Folks, Just a reminder, the November general meeting of BayLISA will be held in the usual Yahoo room (Bldg E, classroom 9, directions at the end of the email). The topic is "Open Source IT Monitoring Tools", and speaker is Thomas Stocking. It should be a very interesting session. Also, november is VOTING time, so if you want to vote for one of our four candidates for board, you can come to the meeting, or send an email vote to vote at baylisa.org. The candidates are : Bruce Coston Rob Markovic Heather Stern James Turner The candidate statements we've received are attached below : James 'Mikey' Turner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To the President, Board, and Membership of BayLISA, I present myself as a candidate for the Board of Directors. My platform for this election is a very simple one - no politics. Entirely too much time is wasted in organizations like BayLISA over silly political drama. It is my goal to minimize such, thereby maximizing the amount of time we can spend listening, learning, and eating pizza. Pizza > Drama. I am currently a System Administration intern at Yahoo! Inc., hopefully moving to full-time in December. I've been using various flavors of Unix since the early '90s, and I love what I do. The fact that I get paid to do it still makes me giggle. I will bring energy, enthusiasm, and a distinct lack of drama to the position if I'm elected. I can't wait to see what we can accomplish together for ourselves and for BayLISA. :) Rob Markovic ~~~~~~~~~~~~ To whom it may concern, Rob Markovic here, technical geek of many trades, would like to participate on the board of BayLISA, as I find the group interesting and useful, as well as the chance to make it even better. Until then, Finally, directions to the Yahoo meeting : Follow the directions detailed at http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/address.cfm However, ignore the last two steps. Instead of turning first right into Yahoo bldg D, turn first LEFT into Yahoo bldg E. A guard will let you into the lobby and direct you to classroom 9. Cheers, Al From star at starshine.org Wed Nov 15 08:44:55 2006 From: star at starshine.org (Heather Stern) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:44:55 -0800 Subject: Meeting (and election!) reminder In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061115164455.GA22710@starshine.org> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:51:22PM -0800, Alan Horn wrote: > > Folks, > > Just a reminder, the November general meeting of BayLISA will be held in > the usual Yahoo room (Bldg E, classroom 9, directions at the end of the > email). The topic is "Open Source IT Monitoring Tools", and speaker is > Thomas Stocking. It should be a very interesting session. > > Also, november is VOTING time, so if you want to vote for one of our four > candidates for board, you can come to the meeting, or send an email vote > to vote at baylisa.org. > > The candidates are : > > Bruce Coston > Rob Markovic > Heather Stern > James Turner > Heather Stern ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (as announced on mic at a previous general meeting) I've been deeply involved with the BayLISA board for some years now, just plugging along, making things work. Like our web description for the board says, you know, all those boring things that we don't always want to do at work either, but make the cool things happen. If elected I won't run away. . . . . . I'm also this month's EC, and I look forward to seeing you all there! . | . Heather Stern | (408) 374-7623 land --->*<--- star at starshine.org - * - (408) 761-4912 cell ' | ` BayLISA Board |