Path: border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!87.106.161.54.MISMATCH!feeder1.news.weretis.net!newsfeeder.dynfx.net!weretis.net!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!news-peer-lilac.gradwell.net!not-for-mail From: Barry Salter Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.management Subject: RESULT - UK Usenet Commitee Elections 2008 Followup-To: uk.net.news.management Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:00:24 +0100 Message-ID: Sender: Chris Croughton as Control Approved: Chris Croughton as Control Lines: 213 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.31.120.41 X-Trace: 1222639238 news.gradwell.net 515 control/81.31.120.41:63867 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@gradwell.net Bytes: 7325 Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com uk.net.news.announce:3758 uk.net.news.config:232664 uk.net.news.management:69899 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Result of Call for Nominations UK Usenet Committee Elections 2008 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 unopposed to serve as Open Members of the UK Usenet Committee until December 2011: Geoff Berrow Mark Goodge NB: This leaves one vacancy on the Committee for this class. ====================================================================== Nominations closed at 23:59:59 BST, 23rd September 2008. Primary Votetaker: Barry Salter Secondary Votetaker: Alex Holden ======================================================================== Distribution: These results have been posted to the following newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce uk.net.news.config uk.net.news.management ======================================================================== The full results follow below in the following order: 1) Summary of Mail Received During the Nominations Period 2) Candidates 3) Votetaker's Comments 4) Voting and Appeal Information ====================================================================== Summary of Mail Received During the Nominations Period 7 messages were received to the Nominations Address, of which: 2 were valid nominations which were later confirmed 1 was rejected as the would be nominator put the names of two candidates on the nomination form, with himself as sole nominator 4 were test messages by the votetaker to ensure the forwarding was working correctly following the DNS issues on the first day ======================================================================== Candidates: Two nominations were received. The Committee had three vacancies for the Open Class, therefore no Election was necessary and both candidates were elected unopposed. A list of the candidates is below (in alphabetical order by surname). Candidates: Geoff Berrow Candidate A Mark Goodge Candidate B 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. ======================================================================== Candidate A Name : Geoff Berrow E-Mail: bl (at) ckdog (dot) co (dot) uk Nominators Name : Wm E-Mail: tcnw81 (at) tarrcity (dot) demon (dot) co (dot) uk Name : Molly Mockford E-Mail: com2008 (at) mollymockford (dot) me (dot) uk Name : Chris Croughton E-Mail: chris (at) keristor (dot) org Name : Charles Lindsey E-Mail: chl (at) clerew (dot) man (dot) ac (dot) uk Statement: None provided. ======================================================================== Candidate B Name : Mark Goodge E-Mail: com2008 (at) good-stuff (dot) co (dot) uk Nominators Name : Molly Mockford E-Mail: com2008 (at) mollymockford (dot) me (dot) uk Name : Clive Feather E-Mail: clive (at) demon (dot) net Name : 'kat' E-Mail: kat (dot) news (at) ntlworld (dot) com Name : Martyn Bailey E-Mail: nospam (at) nominet (dot) name Statement: I've been doing this job for the past three years, I'm happy to continue if that's what the electorate wants. ======================================================================== Votetaker's Comments Barry:- I think it's safe to say that this is the first time that I can recall there being insufficient candidates for the OPEN class to not need an Election. The last record I can find of there being less candidates is the 2000 Committee Elections, where Peter Corlett was elected unopposed as a New Class candidate. After the initial DNS-related teething troubles, the rest of the process has gone fairly smoothly, apart from the person listed above who didn't read the nomination instructions. Alex:- Barry, as ever, ran a faultless operation making my job as secondary votetaker extremely easy. Needless to say I also think that the shortage of nominations is notable. ======================================================================== 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: The UKVoting web pages can be found at 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. ====================================================================== (The information in this and the following section is a copy of that provided in the Call for Nominations) Definition of Open Class of Membership Any participant in the uk.* hierarchy qualifies as a candidate in the Open class. ======================================================================== 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. ======================================================================== Persons retiring from the Committee Open Member Class: Geoff Berrow Mark Goodge Alison Hopkins All of whom have served their three year term. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG-v1.4.6-(GNU/Linux) Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBSN/+fGOfGXkh8vHZAQIm3AP/cdBoZeG3t1ylqBRZZ0erQSovza7cO4im iD6vwcgqiRaPopGrUbRLcJXz+JoBJyL2lsD5P8zWPVy+S+tSMtvZpZo4yCIQfgh0 zsjhvb3DyWPnqn42zl0DrgK1uATOUi/WRcFrmqpLDlbEiCe8VFmfNUb1SvZ16cwq Jsx38cf8+uw= =U/Vx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----