<div dir="ltr"><div>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!<br></div><div><br><br clear="all"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_-8135816894277587316gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Tim<br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Bill Kendrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nbs@sonic.net" target="_blank">nbs@sonic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 03:38:10PM -0800, Brian E. Lavender wrote:<br>
> You mean is it towel time? I say throw in the towel and have a<br>
> big party to celebrate the end! We worked hard. Time to rest.<br>
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</span>I didn't expect y'all to be so pessimistic. :) My objective<br>
was to find some fresh energy to keep things going after I leave<br>
(assuming I do -- seems likely, but nothing is confirmed.)<br>
<br>
Thanks to Will Marshall for offering to speak at November's meeting,<br>
and I'll try to do better to work through my backlog of<br>
"people to invite" sitting in my mailbox and Trello deck.<br>
<br>
Anyway, busy at work, but just wanted to drop a note to<br>
encourage folks to keep the flame alive. It's not like it's<br>
that difficult; it just takes some time (which I probably do have)<br>
and interest (which I admit is waning these days; I've got classic<br>
gaming podcasts keeping my interest right now).<br>
<br>
Tim and Kenny have been doing a fine job, and I'd like to<br>
take this opportunity to nominate them for their positions.<br>
<br>
Brian's kept the social gathering flame alive, and if he's<br>
interested in continuing as vice-pres, then consider this<br>
a nomination for him for that, too. :)<br>
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-bill!<br>
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> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:38:03PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > Right now it's LUGOD club officer election season, and we're<br>
> > accepting nominations for our four elected positions.<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm strongly considering NOT running for any positions this<br>
> > time around, as it's looking very likely that I'll be moving<br>
> > out of the area next summer.<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm concerned, since I take it upon myself to do a lot of<br>
> > work for the club, that I'll leave a vacuum in my place<br>
> > which could adversely affect the club. We obviously don't<br>
> > want that!<br>
> ><br>
> > Furthermore, even now, I've not had as much time (or in some<br>
> > cases, not had the energy or inclincation) to do some of the<br>
> > things necessary for the club. I've been terrible at putting<br>
> > meeting minutes up on the website (and have been bad at<br>
> > asking for help), and have been struggling to work on finding<br>
> > guest speakers. Doing that kind of stuff for a good portion<br>
> > of the past ~16-17 years has admittedly gotten a bit tiresome.<br>
> ><br>
> > The club needs help right now, so I encourage people to please<br>
> > consider running for officer positions. It'd be revitalizing,<br>
> > I think, to actually hold elections _with voting_ for once.<br>
> ><br>
> > So many past elections have been situations where only one<br>
> > person was nominated for each position (if that!), so we've<br>
> > accepted them after a simple 'call for objections' at the<br>
> > meeting.<br>
> ><br>
> > LUGOD is a 501(c)7 non-profit, with a somewhat active<br>
> > membership, and I think we can thrive if energetic people<br>
> > take part in running the club again.<br>
> ><br>
> > That's my 2c, (and, uh, I guess a kind of warning? :) )<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > With that, I need to hurry up and find a guest speaker/topic<br>
> > for next week's meeting! :^(<br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > -bill!<br>
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> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other<br>
> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."<br>
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> The 1980 Turing award lecture<br>
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