Re: Executive Board Nominations

On 3/20/07, Simon Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 20:05 +0000, Antony Seedhouse wrote:
> > It is time again to elect a new Executive Board, to decide the three
> > people who will have the power to decide the course of the network for
> > the next twelve months.
>
> I would like to stand for EB again this year; after being voted in as EB
> member last year but deciding to stand down for a number of reasons, I
> chose to stand down. However, more recently, things look on the up, as
> there seems to be some more interest and we've recruited some new
> servers and staff as a result.
>
> The past 12 months, as Antony mentioned, hasn't been so great; however,
> looking forward, things could really pick up and personally, I would be
> more than prepared to help on getting things going again with OPM and
> IRCd/services. Stability isn't something to write home about over the
> past year, perhaps something to think about.
>
> As far as day-to-day administration of the network goes, we had some
> issues with large botnet attacks; however, these issues are now
> resolved. Was very active with day-to-day AKILLing/services quarantining
> of drones etc.
>
> Past Blitzed 'experience' includes OPM administrator, web team member,
> server admin tabasco.hub and now tabasco.uk. In addition, I have helped
> Blitzed by way of resources 'behind the scenes' by providing a static.*
> mirror and a powerdns geodns backup.
>
> Over the next twelve months, I personally would like to finally see
> Blitzed move to a new IRCd, something less ancient and buggy. Again, in
> that respect, two competent IRCd coders would be willing to help
> Blitzed; this is a good thing as we only currently have one or two
> active C coders. Coupled with that, services could possibly be looked
> at, there are still some issues from years ago including more/better
> caching.
>
> OPM is, again, something that would be good to get back online as there
> is currently no other equally as effective DNSBL for all IRC networks.
> After all, all the reporting stuff is in BOPM, so it was a very
> successful and sane solution for IRC networks. There are some
> equivalents now, such as AHBL, but they're nowhere near as popular as
> OPM was. In addition, OPM made Blitzed quite a respected network and
> brought some interest to the network.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Simon 'sonorous' Pearson
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Seconded
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Antony Seedhouse