Re: News Flash: New Executive Board]

I hereby second Simon's nomination. He has a get-'er'-done attitude

that this network needs and I feel that he will be able to do a lot for 
this network as part of the EB.

-terminal
server administrator, matzah.mi.us.blitzed.org

Simon Pearson wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:15 +0000, Blitzed News Goat wrote:
>  
>
>>   You may know that a few months ago we lost our [1]Executive Board
>>   and we are now looking to reestablish it in a democratic way. So we
>>   ask you, our users, for volunteers.
>>    
>>
>
>I'd like to nominate myself for EB; I hope this will be considered even
>though I haven't had a registered nickname on Blitzed for a year yet
>(but it's close): 
>
>Time registered: May 06 10:47:16 2005 UTC (9 months, 3 weeks, 4 days,
>00:44:16 ago)
>
>Anyway, that aside, I began helping out on Blitzed shortly after joining
>the network for the first time. Came across Blitzed after seeing some
>users in #blitzed that I knew from OpenProjects.net (now Freenode) many
>moons ago.
>
>Began helping out by joining the OPM team and being an OPM administrator
>on the mailing list. That is a role that I still undertake to this day
>(although Antony does most/a lot of the work in that respect). 
>
>Shortly after I linked quiche.fr.* from a dedicated box in Redbus
>Interhouse, Paris. It was successfully permlinked until I had to delink
>from the network as I moved to a box a bit closer to home in London's
>Telehouse. Since then I have been global oper on tabasco.hub.* and am
>now co-admin (though, again, Antony does most of the work there and is
>the only one with shell access). 
>
>I have also now been given the role of routing secretary. I can't
>comment on this as I have not really done much in this role, but it's
>further contribution to the network. I have, however, compiled a new
>routing plan[1] since taking on this role and hopefully it will mean a
>quick turnaround with regards to new server applications/testlinks etc.
>
>I only started offering assistance in #help in recent weeks, but have
>given a helping hand to a few people there. 
>
>I try to be "on the ball" as such and have been quite active on the
>staff and admins mailing lists. I've tried to get the ball rolling with
>a few things; this would be the role people in the EB would have to
>undertake after all! 
>
>Whilst I'm not on the systems team I do monitor the system log bots for
>nubian/lamancha and try to alert others of issues there (happened the
>other day with MySQL, by way of an example and the DNS zone issue we had
>around Christmas time etc). Always try and keep a close eye on the state
>of the network as a whole which includes the servers "behind the scenes"
>which run Blitzed on a day-to-day basis. 
>
>I'm also a member of the web team but this is a role that I, again,
>haven't had much of an active role in. However, that said, I have made
>lots of changes/additions to the Blitzed wiki[2] and continue to do so.
>This includes formatting of the main page to try in an attempt to try
>and have users find answers to the most frequently asked questions asked
>in #help. I'm not sure if it's an improvement or not, however!
>
>The wiki's recent changes page[3] lists stuff that I've changed on the
>wiki recently. (Note the entries on the page are purged regularly so no
>edits earlier than 29 Jan [at time of writing this] can be seen.)
>
>I hope I haven't missed anything from the above, but if I have I shall
>reply to this message. Whilst I am only 20 years of age I hope this
>won't go against me!
>
>I also hope to see more nominations from a few other members of staff
>who have been around longer than I have :)
>
>[1] http://blitzed.org/docs/routing.phtml
>[2] http://wiki.blitzed.org/
>[3] http://wiki.blitzed.org/Special:Recentchanges&days=30
>
>Regards,
>
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