[wplug-members] Minutes from the October 15 (Nominations) Meeting

[Mark Dalrymple]

Greetings,

Appended you'll find the minutes from the wplug nominations meeting,  
including the official list of nominations.  You'll receive an  
official ballot later this week, along with instructions (or a  
pointer to a website) for voting procedures for the November 5  
election meeting.  The official language from the bylaws is included  
in the minutes, but we hope to have a more human-readable version  
available soon.

Cheers,
++Mark Dalrymple, markd at borkware.com
   http://borkware.com



Minutes of the WPLUG NOMINATIONS MEETING:
October 15, 2005 10:00am
Carnegie Mellon University, Newell Simon Hall room 1507

CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 12:50PM by Madame Chairperson Beth
Lynn Eicher

Board members present were:
   Beth Lynn Eicher, Chairperson

Members of WPLUG present were:
   Mark Sikora
   Bobbie Eicher
   David Ostroske
   Evelyn Chao
   Partick Wastrom
   Jonathan Billings
   Scott Kriebel
   Chris Teodorski
   Bill Moran
   Brian Sammon
   Tom Watson
   Chris Ott
   Stephen (Steve) Hancock
   Michael P. (Mike) O'Connor
   John Koczko
   John Vukovic
   Vance Kochendenfer
   Steve Boffardi
   James O'Kane

Also Present were:
   Walter Perz
   Keith Wolters
   David Tessitor
   Janoj Dohanicj

SECRETARY APPOINTMENT:
Steve Hancock was appointed as the Secretary for the nominations
meeting by Beth Lynn Eicher since Mark Dalrymple, WPLUG's Secretary,
was not present. These minutes were drafted by Steve Hancock and
edited later by Beth Lynn Eicher.

NEXT MEMBERSHIP BUSINESS MEETING:
It was announced to all present that the next business meeting will be
held on November 5, 2005 at 10am to 3pm at Carnegie Mellon University
in Newell Simon Hall room 1507

NOMINIATIONS:
   Beth Lynn Eicher by self - expressed interest in serving as Vice  
Chair
   David Ostroske by Steve Hancock - expressed interest in serving as  
Secretary
   Patrick Wagstrom by Mike O'Connor
   John Vukovic by David Ostroske
   Steve Hancock by Bill Moran
   Mike O'Connor by Steve Hancock - expressed intentions to serve as
       the "Member at Large" Director only, not interested in other  
director
       positions
   Scott Kriebel by Chris Teodorski
   Chris Teodorski by Scott Kriebel
   Bobbie Lynn Eicher by Mike O'Connor
   Bill Moran by David Ostroske
   Steve Boffandi by self
   Mark Sikora by David Ostroske
   12 total nominations

Failed Nominations:
   XXX - DECLINED Mark Dalrymple by James OKane
   XXX - NOT A MEMBER William Eddie by Mike O'Connor
   XXX - DECLINED Duncan Hutty by Evelyn Chao
        (Mr Hutty was not present and declined nomination on October  
16, 2005)

OTHER BUSINESS:
Chris Ott and Tom Watson paid dues. As per the order decided in the
October 14 WPLUG board meeting, both Mr Ott and Mr Watson were
considered members in good standing effective immediately upon dues
payment.

(Beth Lynn explained voting process adopted for the November 5, 2005
Annual Membership meeting)

That an ELECTION SPECIAL RULE OF ORDER be adopted as follows: Each
voting member may rate any number of nominees in a manner that assigns
to each nominee 1, 2, or 3 points. Members may also write in
unnominated candidates names and assign 1, 2, or 3 points to each
write-in candidate. (Such write-in candidates are treated as identical
to nominees for the voting method, but write-in candidates are
permitted to serve as election tellers, as they may not have known in
advance that they received points.) A voting member expresses consent
for a nominee by giving the nominee a rating. Only nominees who have
been rated by a majority of the voters can possibly be elected.

Beth Lynn talked about opportunities to serve on other committees:
internet, program, investigation, Erie lug revival, & newsletter.

Beth Lynn explained newsletter article writing opportunities. Review a
Prentice-Hall or O'Reilly book for the newsletter any book and get it
for free Opportunities for cooperation with other area users groups
such as The Pittsburgh Perl Mongers and the Pittsburgh Java Users
Group were discussed

Mike O'Connor suggested that the board of wplug look into web logs to
keep track of all business.

NOMINATIONS CLOSED AT 1:40 PM