27 Oct 2005: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2005
From: "Barry Salter" <com2k05@blackhole.southie.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:00:49 +0100
Subject: RESULT - UK Usenet Committee Elections 2005
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.management
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Result of Call for Votes
UK Usenet Committee Elections 2005
Due to the continued prevalence of viruses and worms the harvest Usenet
posts for e-mail addresses, all e-mail addresses in these results are
modified to prevent this.
Summary:
The following people are elected to serve as Open Members of the UK
Usenet Committee until December 2008:
Geoff Berrow
Mark Goodge
Alison Hopkins
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Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 22nd October 2005.
Primary Votetaker: Barry Salter <com2k05-query (at) southie.me.uk>
Secondary Votetaker: Pedt Scragg <com2k05-query (at) mx2.org.uk>
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Distribution:
These results have been posted to the following newsgroups:
uk.net.news.announce
uk.net.news.config
uk.net.news.management
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The full results follow below in the following order:
1) Information on the Ballot
2) Summary of Mail Received During the Voting Period
3) Results in Detail
4) Voter List
5) Counted Vote List
6) Votetaker's Comments
7) Voting and Appeal Information
8) Copy of Statements from the CFV
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Information on the Ballot
Voters were asked to rank the following candidates in order of
preference:
Geoff Berrow Candidate A
Paul Cummins Candidate B
Graham Drabble Candidate C
Mark Goodge Candidate D
Andrew Hodgson Candidate E
Alison Hopkins Candidate F
Thomas Lee Candidate G
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Summary of Mail Received During the Voting Period
133 messages were received to the Ballot Request Address, of which:
130 were valid Ballot Requests
2 had names, but no addresses, in the Reply-To header, resulting in
the ballot papers being bounced
1 was a test message sent by the votetaker
116 messages were received to the Voting Address, of which:
103 were valid and counted votes
8 were deemed invalid by the votetakers due to attempted multivoting
2 were rejected due to the voters omitting their name, though they
did later submit valid votes
1 valid vote subsequently superseded by the voter
1 was deemed invalid due to the acknowledgement having bounced
1 was an abstention
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Results in Detail
The election was conducted using the Single Transferable Vote method of
voting, with the count carried out under the Electoral Reform Society's
1997 (3rd Edition) rules.
The STV analysis is as follows:
UK Usenet Committee Elections 2005
Stage 1
Total Valid Vote: 103
Places to be filled +1: 4
So Quota = 103/4
Quota = 25.75
First Preferences:
Geoff Berrow : 48
Paul Cummins : 3
Graham Drabble : 6
Mark Goodge : 20
Andrew Hodgson : 4
Alison Hopkins : 20
Thomas Lee : 2
Geoff Berrow ELECTED
with 48.00
over quota 25.75
Active Vote: 77.25
Places left +1: 3
Vote required for election now: 25.75
Stage 2
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Geoff Berrow
Graham Drabble gets 21 papers
Mark Goodge gets 16 papers
Andrew Hodgson gets 2 papers
Alison Hopkins gets 7 papers
Thomas Lee gets 2 papers
48 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 48.00
0 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 22.25/48
Papers transferred at 0.46
Graham Drabble now has 15.66 votes.
Mark Goodge now has 27.36 votes.
Andrew Hodgson now has 4.92 votes.
Alison Hopkins now has 23.22 votes.
Thomas Lee now has 2.92 votes.
0.17 votes non-transferable.
Mark Goodge ELECTED
with 27.36
over quota 25.75
Active Vote: 51.33
Places left+1: 2
Vote required for election now: 25.67
Stage 3
The sum of
Paul Cummins: 3.00
Thomas Lee: 2.92
Andrew Hodgson: 4.92
and the total surplus: 1.61
is less than the support for the next lowest candidate,
Graham Drabble: 15.66, so those candidates are excluded.
Excluding Paul Cummins
Excluding Andrew Hodgson
Excluding Thomas Lee
Transferring papers worth 1.00
Graham Drabble gets 6 papers.
Graham Drabble now has 21.66 votes.
Alison Hopkins gets 3 papers.
Alison Hopkins now has 26.22 votes.
Alison Hopkins ELECTED
with 26.22
over quota 25.75.
***Finished***
In grid format, this is expressed as follows:
UK Usenet Committee Elections 2005
Number to be elected: 3 (from 7)
Counted votes: 103
Quota for election on first round: 25.75
1st Stage 2 Stage 3
Pref T A T A
48 -22.25 25.75 25.75 Elect Geoff Berrow
3 3.00 -3.00 0.00 Exclude Paul Cummins
6 9.66 15.66 6.00 21.66 Graham Drabble
20 7.36 27.36 27.36 Elect Mark Goodge
4 0.92 4.92 -4.00 0.92 Exclude Andrew Hodgson
20 3.22 23.22 3.00 26.22 Elect Alison Hopkins
2 0.92 2.92 -2.00 0.92 Exclude Thomas Lee
0.17 0.17 0.17 Non-transferable
103 103.00 103.00 Totals
Key to grid:
Stage 2 - Surplus of Geoff Berrow
Stage 3 - Exclusion of Paul Cummins, Andrew Hodgson, Thomas Lee
T = number of votes transferred at this stage
A = votes for candidate after transfer
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Voter List
The following individuals supplied valid votes:
Name Email
{R} {R}=semolina=ogr
3Phase Phase3#worldnet|att*nte
Adam Price adam+usenet?pappnase$co?ku
Adelaide atc12~mole!bio/cam$ac^ku
Alan LeHun ukvote#lehun=clara$co^ku
Alex Holden abgphzzvafntnva|alexholden%co~ku
Ali ali_on_usenet'ntlworld*cmo
Alison Hopkins fn62|dial^pipex|cmo
Andrew Hodgson andrew#hodgsonfamily$ogr
Andy Hartley andy|soright=co|ku
Anthony Edwards anthony!catfish|nildram?co%ku
Bill Jillians Bill|Jillians'virgin$nte
Bob Scott bob=bobandaileen#co*ku
Bootlaces boot_laces!hotmail$cmo
Brett Paul Dunbar brett~dimetrodon#demon*co/ku
Brian Brian~bjforster|force9*co/ku
Charles Lindsey chl=clerew!man/ac~ku
Chris Croughton chris~keristor/nte
Chris Street chris~chris-street$demon'co=ku
Chronos matt|mattsnetwork~co$ku
Clive Martin clive~cmartin'demon*co*ku
Clive R Robertson cvote05!clive'org~ku
Colin Rosenstiel usenet#rosenstiel~cix^co'ku
Darren Wyn Rees darren#cymraeg/ogr
Dave Fawthrop hyphen#hyphenologist$co?ku
Dave Hillam brillig!dsl?pipex~cmo
Dave J. requiem!freeuk/cmo
Dave Mayall dave|research-group*co*ku
David Aldred david~familyaldred$org*ku
David Mahon dmahon_vote_xcom2k5b$amigo%co~ku
David Uri daviduri%bigfoot#cmo
Debbie Herring debbie#cybertheology$nte
DG dickg~dickalba/demon$co?ku
Dr Zoidberg Alex|drzoidberg|co$ku
Edward King eaking#ulape=org#ku
Fishter usenet2004!fishter$org*ku
fred fredc~emailacc/cmo
Geoff Berrow response%ckdog/co~ku
Graham Drabble usenet05%drabble#me*ku
Grant unncvote05!mason#hs
Guy Morgan guy=firstlight/plus*cmo
Ian Clifton ian=clifton?chemistry^oxford|ac!ku
James Farrar james~farrar=gmail$cmo
Jeff Gaines jgaines_newsid/yahoo$co?ku
Jim Crowther Don't_spam!crowfam$org*ku
Jim Riley jimrtex!pipeline#cmo
John Bean waterfoot^gmail|cmo
John Hall john|jhall!co'ku
John the R-T t_e_n_e_s_u?hotmail*cmo
Jon Atkins jon=jonatkins'cmo
Jonathan Wheeler jfw73~rl%ac?ku
kat kat=committee'ntlworld*cmo
Keith Lawrence adsl|perrydell/cmo
Kevin Andreoli kevin~andreoli/co~ku
Kevin Ashley k/ashley%ulcc'ac#ku
Kim Andrews somerat!hotmail|cmo
Lt. Cmdr. Jim jim=us-lot!ogr
Martyn Bailey m/101fc!nte
Maurice Bickerstaff mbickers%netcomuk~co$ku
Michael Hoffman mh391~cam^ac=ku
Michael Parry mjp=crowsnest'co#ku
Mike Davis miked~trustsof/demon$co?ku
Mike Fleming mike|tauzero=co|ku
Mike Henry {$usenet-spamdump$}*mrtickle|demon!co'ku
Mike Stanton mike|stanton=dsl#pipex*cmo
Mike Tullett miketullett?ntlworld$cmo
MJR mjr=phonecoop'ocpo
Molly Mockford com2005!mollymockford^me'ku
Nadeem bambi~sushi?co/pj
Neil Matthews neil|chaos!org/ku
Nick Leverton nick|leverton'ogr
Nick Odell themusicworkshop#ntlworld/cmo
Owen Rees owenrees%waitrose~cmo
Patrick Herring ph%anweald!co'ku
paul {voter}!watman/clara$co?ku
Paul Carpenter paul|pcserviceselectronics%co~ku
Paul Cummins paul|cummins=ie|eu$ogr
Paul Giverin paul|giverin=co|ku
Paul Harper paul|harper?nte
Pekka P. Pirinen ppp=pirinen?demon~co$ku
Pete Fenelon pete|fenelon=cmo
Peter Duck pduck~zetnet=co|ku
Peter Duncanson mail|peterduncanson*nte
Peter Robinson pmrobinson!gmx/nte
Peter Smyth psmyth#gmx!nte
Philip Powell philip#blencathra~org^ku
remblem remblem!aol?cmo
Rex M F Smith usenet#juu!san/gehena^demon=co#ku
Richard Clayton richard!highwayman$cmo
Richard Letts richard!illuin/ogr
Robbie robbie#babblings#org$ku
Robert Marshall robert$spam0104$#chezmarshall~freeserve|co$ku
Roger Hayter roger~hayter=demon$co^ku
Ronan Flood ronan~noc^ulcc/ac~ku
Rusty Hinge horrid#squeak'zetnet$co?ku
Safesound safesound^tiscali~co$ku
Simon Turner simon~twoplaces|co$ku
sparhawk sparhawk2^ntlworld$cmo
Stuart Millington comvote2005?dsv1#co*ku
Stuart O'Donnell stuart#o'donnell#venicones%demon%co?ku
Thomas Lee tfl=psp!co!ku
Tim Sharrock tim-mospam!sharrock*org?ku
Tony tony|darkstorm/co~ku
Wm tcnw81#tarrcity|demon^co'ku
The following ballot papers were rejected as invalid:
Name Address Reason
Arthur Ascii arthuraskey?gmail~cmo Multivoting
Charlie Drake charliedrake=tiscali$co?ku Multivoting
Claire Kiff clairekiff!tiscali$co^ku Multivoting
Dangerous sjalldred^tiscali~co$ku Multivoting
David Kiff davidjkiff!tiscali$co^ku Multivoting
Karen A karenalldred=gmail$cmo Multivoting
Martin Biddiscombe public#priatel/co~ku Ack Bounced
Steve Baker stevebakerj?freeuk$cmo Multivoting
Sue Baker susanjbaker?tiscali*co*ku Multivoting
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Counted Vote List
The guidelines for the UK Usenet Committee Elections stipulate
that the votes of all voters shall be published in such a way that
only the voter can recognise his/her own vote.
The following votes were counted, listed in alphanumeric order of
the Voter ID:
Candidate Rankings
Voter ID A B C D E F G
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0067b6ef303f9a54 3 - 5 1 2 4 -
00d27318965adfc5 - - 1 - - 2 3
06ce2e5954fccf6e 2 7 3 4 6 1 5
0d0a78b0ec1bf8d9 1 3 2 7 5 4 6
130f81f45239177e 2 1 3 7 6 5 4
13ac5d548f83c6c3 1 - 2 - - 3 -
146c57b579f16496 3 - - 1 - 2 -
171534fcbe0efc20 7 5 4 1 2 3 6
17f94d5ead72dd62 4 7 3 1 5 2 6
1c9d5e83704c0673 2 7 1 4 6 3 5
1f9351d35b497e65 1 7 6 2 4 3 5
20c9ef5429a9d51e 1 7 3 5 2 6 4
26504718045dbe16 3 - 2 1 - - -
28ad2d0a48d60896 2 7 3 1 5 4 6
2a4ad358dab6bdae 1 7 4 2 6 5 3
2b0a642c11d53de3 2 7 3 4 6 1 5
2b1d35e93e7deff5 3 - - - 1 2 -
346a119add8ba319 4 1 3 2 6 5 7
356256fdb01224b0 4 7 3 1 6 2 5
38244d278d1399e5 2 - 3 1 4 5 -
389fa91b4b027012 2 7 3 6 1 4 5
3a16f10b735f12bc 3 1 2 4 6 5 7
3ab760b5fd180ed1 1 6 3 2 4 7 5
42759b40fc88f577 1 7 4 2 6 5 3
45b54b53374f3dbc 5 7 4 1 3 2 6
45d2d03ca2667bc9 3 5 7 6 4 1 2
4966ee1483aaefc2 3 - 5 4 2 1 -
4a0ef3a2f3ebc349 1 7 2 3 6 4 5
4b018ebcd78e0c18 1 7 6 2 5 4 3
4f3620e567cf9d92 1 - 2 5 - 3 4
5047c201d11b5177 1 7 5 3 4 2 6
504c28752bdef5e7 1 7 4 3 6 5 2
517fd79ff0117a2a 1 - 4 2 3 - -
5471bb7f2f9f2548 4 5 2 6 1 3 7
56621a6215941c3a 1 7 3 2 6 4 5
5b08908ff1a0d235 1 - 2 3 6 5 4
5c1e9dd365943e43 3 2 5 - 6 1 4
5c9ec17674da630e 2 - 3 - - 1 -
5e605bd9b8bbf12e 2 4 1 3 6 5 7
60c253e5f131d25f 1 7 3 2 5 6 4
6208a53db155046c 2 - 4 5 6 1 3
6863c1c689491354 2 7 4 1 5 6 3
68f9982415eb408d 1 7 2 4 6 5 3
6a82b9825733271f 2 7 6 4 3 1 5
6ccdb055f4ff2c54 2 - 3 1 - 4 -
6cf1f563a5ca3c4d - - - 2 3 1 -
6d89aa3a747edb96 1 7 3 4 6 2 5
77f53e59173befc7 1 7 2 4 5 6 3
7af84b5169a6c4c4 1 7 2 4 5 3 6
7c138bc3398e00ae 2 7 1 3 4 5 6
7eb2f12df632c6b7 2 7 1 5 3 6 4
7ed2293084d193d1 1 7 2 4 5 6 3
826483d5b20b44ec - 2 - 1 - 3 -
8297abb7c10174aa 2 7 6 4 3 1 5
843ea5eba20be09b 3 7 5 2 6 1 4
894f28a63b335b8f 1 7 6 2 5 3 4
8cb562532456ba4d 4 7 5 2 3 1 6
8e9e2cc732200aa9 4 5 6 1 3 2 7
8fe9bff8394f7ef4 3 - 2 - - 1 -
9046e28ed212a3c0 - - - 1 - - -
932810e9feaf76d5 5 - 2 1 3 4 -
939c36cc1c6cf561 2 7 5 1 6 4 3
95808e3cf70e06b5 1 7 2 4 5 3 6
959b4bfcbeebd6d0 1 7 3 5 4 2 6
9642415baedd8fd9 1 7 5 2 6 4 3
98bcc28498fe001d 1 7 3 2 5 4 6
9e9ae24cc3403143 4 7 2 1 5 6 3
a6cb1f0aa1da9ecd 2 - 3 4 6 1 5
a99347a04d630265 1 - 2 - - 4 3
ab5b605e0fb4db6d 1 7 6 4 5 2 3
ab7a14cb09732512 1 7 4 3 6 2 5
ae89926255c509f4 3 7 2 1 6 4 5
b5c4f5e0354c9e3f 1 7 4 2 5 3 6
b7950f5659a092a3 1 7 2 6 4 3 5
b857adfa7a25849c - - - - - - -
bae3b862cee7130a 1 - 2 - - 3 4
bb4842958544b3bf 1 7 2 5 4 3 6
bb6716c7bf40a02d 3 - 2 - - 1 -
c1f058e6bbdbfb4e 1 7 2 5 6 3 4
c33a35a0508a59af 3 - 5 1 6 2 4
c54c6645116f6536 - - 2 - 1 3 -
c75aff1aa375bd45 2 7 3 4 5 1 6
d1e43583d95d6f07 1 7 2 4 5 3 6
d3964445a66dc0e0 1 7 3 4 5 2 6
d41474f9ccd22a7d 2 - 1 - - 3 4
d5db7e0bce55c18a 2 7 5 4 6 3 1
d65accc35c27b634 - 2 - - - 1 -
d773a2b81b9cf49b - 3 - 1 - - 2
d844a9b5a324941b 1 5 2 3 7 4 6
d9c7f39916692548 1 7 2 6 5 4 3
e02bcca5b989ffef 1 7 4 2 5 3 6
e05617e37fbb1797 3 7 5 4 2 1 6
e568cda6b87a2e3c 1 7 3 5 6 2 4
e7feb3da576724a2 1 6 4 2 5 3 7
ea5d05c69efb6a3b 1 5 4 3 7 6 2
ea71991a78c30c3e 2 3 7 4 6 5 1
ea9f8dadc7e7eb17 1 7 3 2 6 5 4
ebf472b03bd1955d 2 7 3 4 5 1 6
ed6228f19c46f1e0 2 7 3 5 6 1 4
ede5c179ad1fba58 1 7 5 2 6 3 4
f647aa8131adad14 1 - 2 - - 3 -
f7c2da0c73ae831d 1 5 2 4 6 3 7
f8651c0cd877bbc1 1 6 3 4 2 7 5
fa624ec261f8c20a 1 7 2 4 3 5 6
Key: - = No preference expressed for that candidate
If you wish to check that your vote has been correctly recorded, your
Voter ID can be found on your ballot paper and your acknowledgement.
It should be noted that the Voter IDs were issued randomly, and the
sequence here does not match either the order in which ballot papers
were requested or the alphabetical sequence of voter names or email
addresses.
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Votetaker's Comments
Barry:-
After a small problem during the Call for Nominations, where a potential
nominator chose to use a different address to normal, which resulted in
the source of their confirmation being anonymised, and the candidate
supplying details of additional nominators, the Election ran reasonably
smoothly.
Having said that, as can be seen in the summary at the top of this
results post:-
a) Two people failed to provide their name in the space provided on the
ballot paper, so their votes were initially rejected, but they did
correct their mistake.
b) One vote resulted in a Challenge/Response e-mail from the voting
address. As per usual UKVoting practice, this was treated as a
bounce, and the vote was not counted.
c) Eight votes were disallowed for attempted multivoting. As is usual
in such cases, the exact method by which this was detected will not
be made public, but suffice to say, it wasn't hard to do so.
To close, I'd like to be the first to congratulate Geoff, Mark and
Alison on their Election, and offer commiserations to Paul, Graham,
Andrew and Thomas. Still, there's always next year.
I can't speak for the rest of UKVoting, but it'll be a shame to see
Mark, currently our Deputy Co-Ordinator, leaving after nearly six years
on the team, making him the third longest serving member after Jon and
myself, and I wish him the best of luck in his new role.
Pedt:-
Barry conducted a model vote for this year's Committee election. As the
Secondary Votetaker there was very little for me to do other than to
perform my own manual count to confirm the result, although I did take
on the duty of announcing the nominations to uk.net.news.management
after a nomination form was received.
I'd just like to add my own congratulations to those elected and wish
them the best of luck and offer my commiserations to the others.
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Voting and Appeal Information
This vote was conducted by neutral third party members of UKVoting.
UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on
CFVs in the uk hierarchy. The rules under which this vote is taken
are posted regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the
following URL: <http://www.usenet.org.uk/voting.html>
The UKVoting web pages can be found at <http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/>
There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted to
uk.net.news.announce.
Allegations of irregularity should be sent to the committee via email
to: control (at) usenet (dot) org (dot) uk.
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(The information in this and the following section is a copy of that
provided in the CFV)
Definition of Open Class of Membership
Any participant in the uk.* hierarchy qualifies as a candidate in the
Open class.
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Application Requirements
Any participant in the uk.* hierarchy qualifies as a nominator for the
Open class.
Any individual may nominate a maximum of three candidates.
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Persons resigning from the Committee
Open Member Class:
Geoff Berrow
Thomas Lee
Who have served their respective terms,
Graham Drabble
Who was selected by lot from himself, Fiona Gostling (aka 'Kat'), Chris
Croughton and Jim Clokey (aka 'Lt. Cmdr. Jim')
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Candidates:
7 nominations have been received. The committee has 3 vacancies and
therefore an election will be held to fill the 3 vacancies.
A list of the candidates is below (in alphabetical order by surname).
Candidates:
Geoff Berrow Candidate A
Paul Cummins Candidate B
Graham Drabble Candidate C
Mark Goodge Candidate D
Andrew Hodgson Candidate E
Alison Hopkins Candidate F
Thomas Lee Candidate G
Please find below details of the people who nominated each candidate
(Name & Email Address) and a short statement from each candidate:
Note: In each case, only the names of the first four nominators to
confirm their nomination are listed.
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Candidate A
Name : Geoff Berrow
E-Mail: ce2005 (at) ckdog (dot) co (dot) uk
Nominators
Name : Molly Mockford
E-Mail: com2005 (at) mollymockford (dot) me (dot) uk
Name : 'kat'
E-Mail: kat (dot) committee (at) ntlworld (dot) com
Name : Charles Lindsey
E-Mail: chl (at) clerew (dot) man (dot) ac (dot) uk
Name : Graham Drabble
E-Mail: usenet05 (at) drabble (dot) me (dot) uk
Statement:
I hate to start on a negative note but it's probably fair to say that
the glory days of Usenet are over. Having said that I remain passionate
about Usenet and regard it as the 'Internet's best kept secret'. It is
educational, entertaining and informative and has helped and entertained
me enormously over the years. So much so that I am pleased to have been
able to put something back in my two terms in office as well as
maintaining the RFDMaker, and as UK Usenet Mentors Oversight Person with
Long Title.
As technical adviser to the us.* Interim Committee, I am constantly made
aware of what a good system we have here. uk.* is one of the great
success stories of Usenet and I hope it will remain so for a long time
to come. I'd very much like to continue to be part of that success
story. I hope my track record speaks for itself and that you will
support me in my bid for a third term.
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Candidate B
Name : Paul Cummins
E-Mail: Committee (at) vlaad (dot) co (dot) uk
Nominators
Name : Peter Smyth
E-Mail: psmyth (at) gmx (dot) net
Name : Clive Feather
E-Mail: clive (at) davros (dot) org
Name : Paul Harper
E-Mail: paul (at) harper (dot) net
Name : Roger Hayter
E-Mail: roger (at) hayter (dot) demon (dot) co (dot) uk
Statement:
I am a Training Officer, currently working within the NHS IT rollout
programme. I have been a regular participant in the UK hierarchy since
around 1999, with a 6 month break at the end of the year 2001.
I make no bones about my reason for standing for the committee. It is
time to step above personal issues, and consider not what the benefit to
the individual would be in any circumstance, but the benefit to the
hierarchy as a whole.
Since returning to usenet a little under 3 years ago, I have tried (and
have not always succeeded) to avoid the errors I made in the past, admit
my mistakes, and robustly challenge actions by Committee Members and UK
Voting which do not seem to be in the best interest of the UK hierarchy.
If you select me as a committee member, I will offer my judgement, my
diligence and my experience freely without complaint.
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Candidate C
Name : Graham Drabble
E-Mail: usenet05 (at) drabble (dot) me (dot) uk
Nominators
Name : Dick Gaughan
E-Mail: dg (at) dickgaughan (dot) co (dot) uk
Name : Ali Hopkins
E-Mail: fn62 (at) dial (dot) pipex (dot) com
Name : 'kat'
E-Mail: kat (dot) committee (at) ntlworld (dot) com
Name : Charles Lindsey
E-Mail: chl (at) clerew (dot) man (dot) ac (dot) uk
Statement:
I was originally coopted onto the committee in April 2003 and was then
elected for a full term later that year. If elected again I would
continue to work in the same way that I have done up to now. I feel that
the process works far better when all parties work together applying
common sense rather than trying to prove they have the right to do X and
think that things have improved in that regard over the last few months.
I am also a believer that the D in RFD is important, the best proponents
listen to the discussion and try to work with the community at large for
consensus rather than trying to defend their original proposal to the
death and hope they have the numbers to force it through a vote. In
general I believe that charters are best viewed as a guide to help
people rather than as a set of rules to be enforced and that ignoring or
filtering those seeking to disrupt groups is a better deterrent than
complaining.
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Candidate D
Name : Mark Goodge
E-Mail: markgoodge05 (at) listmail (dot) good-stuff (dot) co (dot) uk
Nominators
Name : Owen Rees
E-Mail: owenrees (at) waitrose (dot) com
Name : David Lane
E-Mail: d (dot) lane (at) lineone (dot) net
Name : Robert Marshall
E-Mail: robert (at) chezmarshall (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot) uk
Name : Debbie Herring
E-Mail: debbie (at) cybertheology (dot) net
Statement:
I have been reading and contributing to usenet, and uk.* in particular,
for over ten years. I run my own news server, and look after the
sysadmin side of a moderated uk.* newsgroup. I have been the
(successful!) proponent of three uk.* newsgroups. I currently work as a
web author and programmer, prior to that I managed the technical support
team for a major UK ISP. I am currently a votetaker; I will, of course,
stand down from UKVoting if elected.
Beyond this basic information, I hope that people will judge me on my
record of contributions to uk.* over the past few years.
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Candidate E
Name : Andrew Hodgson
E-Mail: andrew (at) hodgsonfamily (dot) org
Nominators
Name : Ronan Flood
E-Mail: ronan (at) noc (dot) ulcc (dot) ac (dot) uk
Name : John Bean
E-Mail: waterfoot (at) gmail (dot) com
Name : Simon Turner
E-Mail: simon (at) twoplaces (dot) co (dot) uk
Name : Adam Price
E-Mail: adam+usenet (at) pappnase (dot) co (dot) uk
Statement:
My name is Andrew Hodgson, and I have been a participant in Usenet for
around 8 years, and a participant in UNNC/M for around 2 years. Whilst I
don't feel I would be able to change anything much in the committee
(because I am happy with how things run currently), I feel I could take
an active role in discussions on the committee.
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Candidate F
Name : Alison Hopkins
E-Mail: fn62 (at) dial (dot) pipex (dot) com
Nominators
Name : Kim Andrews
E-Mail: kim (at) totternhoe (dot) demon (dot) co (dot) uk
Name : 'Dr Zoidberg'
E-Mail: Alex (at) drzoidberg (dot) co (dot) uk
Name : Molly Mockford
E-Mail: com2005 (at) mollymockford (dot) me (dot) uk
Name : 'Rusty Hinge'
E-Mail: horrid (dot) squeak (at) zetnet (dot) co (dot) uk
Statement:
When explaining to an electorate why you wish to stand for office, you
must first question why you are doing it! I thought about this long and
hard; it's a compliment to have others suggest and support me, but
flattery is never a good motivation for action in my book.
So, why am I standing? I believe strongly in key principles in both Real
Life and Usenet. Firstly, if you are part of a community, then at some
point making a contribution becomes essential if that community is to
thrive and grow. This is my way of trying to give something back after
many years of enjoyment and participation.
I believe in due process, fair play, the English Law concept of
reasonableness and the rights of the individual to be heard no matter
how unpopular or contentious their point of view. The UK hierarchy
should not be constrained by unnecessary bureaucracy, nor should it ever
become a bear garden where only the loudest are heard. Consensus and
reasoned argument are key; and change can be a Good Thing.
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Candidate G
Name : Thomas Lee
E-Mail: tfl (at) psp (dot) co (dot) uk
Nominators
Name : Chris Croughton
E-Mail: chris (at) keristor (dot) net
Name : 'kat'
E-Mail: kat (dot) committee (at) ntlworld (dot) com
Name : Alison Hopkins
E-Mail: fn62 (at) dial (dot) pipex (dot) com
Name : Martyn Bailey
E-Mail: m (at) 101fc (dot) net
Statement:
I have been a member of the Committee since it was first setup in 1995.
In that time, I've raised a few RFDs for new groups and for group
charter changes, and I try to stay up to date on conversations in unn*.
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