On Tue, Feb 24, 2004, Mihaly wrote: > [quoting me] > > Hey folks, > > > > If you want to be on committee next year, can you nominate yourself > > ASAP? Historically, it's a pain to get people to nominate when they > > don't know if the current committee is running again. > > > > -Mary
Well, I suppose that should teach me to never ever say something on the committee list that I wouldn't want quoted verbatim on a public archived mailing list with no context. I'll give this a little more context: traditionally, people haven't wanted to run against existing committee members -- so one good way to get new people on committee is for the existing committee to show their hand early (as it were), so that others know that there will be vacancies this year. (And there will be, I'm not nominating for a 2004 position, for example.) HOWEVER, I would also like to encourage people to go for positions that an existing committee member is nominating for. They don't have some kind of divine annointment to the position, after all. Far from it. Fresh blood is tasty blood... :) In summary, run for committee everyone. C'mon, you know you want to. Anyway, I apologise for any uninviting tones that the above may have -- I didn't intend it to be distributed to everyone, I intended it as an abbreviated message to ctte to get the nominations rolling. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
