Re: [SAGE] Alternative Nominations for USENIX Board of Directors Election

[Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>]

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On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Andrew Hume wrote:

>
>     as for greg's group's work being good for the organisation, how can
> you tell?
> his motivation, as he said, was to to correct the mistake that no
> "SAGE-positive"
> were nominated at the last USENIX election, without over-correcting. (i
> have no
> idea what this means really; i was nominated and i have worked my butt
> off working
> with the SAGE Exec (for several years) and helping with Certification.
> my intent and effort
> have always been for teh good of SAGE.


Andrew,

	nobody, as far as I can see is criticizing your work for SAGE, or
USENIX for that matter, in fact speaking for myself, I'm grateful for all
the work you have done. This year , especially the last few months I'm
sure has been "the hell year" for you in regards to this. And I'm glad you
stuck to your guns, and have expressed your opinion. I may not totally
agree with you, but I am glad you have been there for us.


>     to the extent that greg is somehow helping people participate in the
> democratic process,
> that's great. to the extent that greg is helping politicise the
> elections, i think that's bad
> for all USENIX members.
>
>

I think, in retrospect, what Greg did was very good for us as an
organization, it has headed off some major dissatisfaction in SAGE over
the events from the viability review. In essence, what Greg did was calm
things down a bit. I don;t think its politicizing it at all. I think what
it did in fact is minimize the politicizing, and flooding of the
nominations with many other parties. In fact, I think the nominations that
Greg's group came up with were very good ones. I'm not disputing the facts
that USENIX is for the advancement of computer research, but at the same
time, I think Greg did a good job at "damage control", for the good of
both SAGE and USENIX. I applaud both of you.

I'm glad we have people who care willing to do the work for SAGE, I
personally don't have much time, and I'm willing to volunteer what I have,
but you and Greg and all the others nominated have gone "above and beyond"
in many senses, and I don't think anybody is trying to seem ungrateful for
your work. I know, I for one, am very grateful, and thought that this
might be an appropriate time to express this.

So, thanks! to both you and Greg and everyone else that worked hard on
both the nominations and damage control after the viability review.

- -Trish

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