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From: paw@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson)

>Funny - I've been on the nominating comittee for Usenix (a multi-million
>dollar non-profit corporation), and _they_ have mechanisms in place
>for allowing members to nominate people for the Board.

bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:

>You've gotten the wrong impression here somewhere, members of SUG can
>certainly nominate other members to run for the board. In fact, that's
>the only way anyone gets on the ballot. . . .

Since Pat hasn't followed up on this particular point, I'll take a risk
and go by what I thought she was saying.....

There is a nominations committee for USENIX which is charged with the
duty of ensuring that there are enough candidates to make a minimum
slate.  While this committee hasn't been perfect in the past, it has
ensured that there are enough qualified and willing people for every
office on the USENIX board.  We took that committee as an example in
doing the SAGE nominations.  The result was a large set of candidates
from the self-nominated (allowed under SAGE bylaws), the committee
picks, and encouragement by other members.  SUG should take a lesson
from this.
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