[vox] The future of LUGOD

[Timothy D Thatcher]

Yay, I'm happy to keep doing what I'm doing, but anyone interested is
welcome to run against me for treasurer, too. It's not a tough job!


Tim

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 03:38:10PM -0800, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> > You mean is it towel time? I say throw in the towel and have a
> > big party to celebrate the end! We worked hard. Time to rest.
>
> I didn't expect y'all to be so pessimistic. :)  My objective
> was to find some fresh energy to keep things going after I leave
> (assuming I do -- seems likely, but nothing is confirmed.)
>
> Thanks to Will Marshall for offering to speak at November's meeting,
> and I'll try to do better to work through my backlog of
> "people to invite" sitting in my mailbox and Trello deck.
>
> Anyway, busy at work, but just wanted to drop a note to
> encourage folks to keep the flame alive.  It's not like it's
> that difficult; it just takes some time (which I probably do have)
> and interest (which I admit is waning these days; I've got classic
> gaming podcasts keeping my interest right now).
>
> Tim and Kenny have been doing a fine job, and I'd like to
> take this opportunity to nominate them for their positions.
>
> Brian's kept the social gathering flame alive, and if he's
> interested in continuing as vice-pres, then consider this
> a nomination for him for that, too. :)
>
> -bill!
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:38:03PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > >
> > > Right now it's LUGOD club officer election season, and we're
> > > accepting nominations for our four elected positions.
> > >
> > > I'm strongly considering NOT running for any positions this
> > > time around, as it's looking very likely that I'll be moving
> > > out of the area next summer.
> > >
> > > I'm concerned, since I take it upon myself to do a lot of
> > > work for the club, that I'll leave a vacuum in my place
> > > which could adversely affect the club.  We obviously don't
> > > want that!
> > >
> > > Furthermore, even now, I've not had as much time (or in some
> > > cases, not had the energy or inclincation) to do some of the
> > > things necessary for the club.  I've been terrible at putting
> > > meeting minutes up on the website (and have been bad at
> > > asking for help), and have been struggling to work on finding
> > > guest speakers.  Doing that kind of stuff for a good portion
> > > of the past ~16-17 years has admittedly gotten a bit tiresome.
> > >
> > > The club needs help right now, so I encourage people to please
> > > consider running for officer positions.  It'd be revitalizing,
> > > I think, to actually hold elections _with voting_ for once.
> > >
> > > So many past elections have been situations where only one
> > > person was nominated for each position (if that!), so we've
> > > accepted them after a simple 'call for objections' at the
> > > meeting.
> > >
> > > LUGOD is a 501(c)7 non-profit, with a somewhat active
> > > membership, and I think we can thrive if energetic people
> > > take part in running the club again.
> > >
> > > That's my 2c, (and, uh, I guess a kind of warning? :) )
> > >
> > >
> > > With that, I need to hurry up and find a guest speaker/topic
> > > for next week's meeting! :^(
> > >
> > > --
> > > -bill!
> > > Sent from my computer
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> > --
> > Brian Lavender
> > http://www.brie.com/brian/
> >
> > "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
> > make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
> > way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
> >
> > Professor C. A. R. Hoare
> > The 1980 Turing award lecture
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> --
> -bill!
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