[HOT] Congratulations to our new voting members!

[Heather Leson]

Thank you. I'm looking forward to learning and helping.

Heather

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Schuyler Erle <schuyler at nocat.net> wrote:

> Greetings, HOTties! and a happy new year to you all.
>
> First, let me thank those of you who participated in the new member
> election in December. This year was the first time we were obliged to hold
> an actual vote for the new member induction, and enough of you finally
> submitted ballots to make it possible for me to welcome the following
> contributors to voting membership in our formal organization:
>
>   * Robert Banick
>   * Jaakko Helleranta
>   * Heather Leson
>   * Tim Waters
>
> All four inductees have devoted significant time to the Team in the past,
> and have rendered significant service for their efforts. We are proud to
> announce their induction, and hope that they will continue to provide the
> excellent contributions for which they have been justly recognized, and
> which make our organization capable of doing the work that we do.
>
> I would like to offer recognition to the nominees who were not elected in
> this round. In particular, there were two individuals who have also devoted
> significant time and effort to HOT's work, who missed induction by only a
> single vote. I hope that we will be able to induct them, as well as the
> other worthy nominees from last month's ballot, in a future new member
> election.
>
> On that note, the Board of Directors has been discussing the possibility
> of holding new member elections more frequently, in order to give
> participants in the organization more opportunities to get involved and
> have an active voice in the direction of the org. We are hoping to
> undertake, with your full involvement, an exploration and discussion of
> what it means to be a member of HOT, and what you all would like the
> direction of our Team to be over the next year. We are looking to conduct
> this discussion over the next few months, with the hope of holding another
> new member election later in the spring.
>
> The nomination period for the Board of Directors election has been
> extended to January 9, end of day PST, as mentioned previously on the
> mailing list. The Board election will commence thereafter and continue
> until end of day January 16. We will send you voting instructions and other
> reminders about this over the next week.
>
> If you have any comments or questions about this process, or thoughts
> you'd like to share on the Team and on the responsibilities of voting
> membership within the Team, I wholeheartedly invite you to reply to this
> message and kick off the discussion forthwith.
>
> On behalf of your Board, I wish you all a happy and productive 2013!
>
> SDE
>
>
>
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