Election-20071020

This election is for the WPLUG board for 2007-2008. Votes may be cast by mail or in person at the October 20, 2007 business meeting. Ballots will be counted and results announced at this meeting, so your vote must be received before then to count.

The ballot for this election is available here. Detailed instructions for voting are on the main WPLUG site.

Those who were nominated at the September meeting and have agreed to be candidates are (in alphabetical order):

• Beth Lynn Eicher
• Michael Hansell (withdrawn)
• Vance Kochenderfer
• David Kraus
• Ted Rodgers
• Brian Seklecki
• Michael Semcheski

Ask the Candidates

There will be a special ask the candidates session in the WPLUG IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, channel #wplug) on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 from 8-9pm EDT. We encourage all members to attend and ask questions of the candidates.

Candidate Statements

Responses from candidates will be posted here in the order in which they were received.

Mike Semcheski

Received September 19th, 2007 @ 9:43am

I would like to see WPLUG continue to reach out to members of the Pittsburgh area Linux community. I am pleased with the board's one, three, and five year goals.

I run into people frequently that use and love Linux. They don't necessarily want to join WPLUG, but I want them to know it exists. I would also like to see more about companies and organizations in the area that use Linux.

Members need to contribute to WPLUG for it to reach its potential. I've been a member of WPLUG for about 2 years. I am the moderator of the wplug-plan list, and I am working on the Internet committee to stabilize and improve WPLUG's online presence.