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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/Oct/15 16:33, Patrick Gilmore
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I completely agree the board elections have a big impact.
Personally, I think the more, the merrier. I would love to see
everyone voting.
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<div class="">However, I also think The PDB has done a pretty good
job “promoting” this. An email was sent to
_every_single_contact_ in the DB. And when we did that, we
explained that if people wanted to be involved, here were the
lists to join. In that email, we promised not to do it again. I
would like to hold to that promise.</div>
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<div class="">We also went to multiple conferences, talked to
individuals, sent the survey around, etc., etc. This is not PDB
trying to hide anything.</div>
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<div class="">If anyone would like to post to NANOG, or announce
at a conference, feel free. Again, nothing to hide. But my
personal opinion is most people are tired of hearing about this.
The community has been asked multiple times, and their voices
are overwhelmingly clear. Well, OK, the vast majority of people
are more in the “huh, did you say something?” category. But the
ones who do give a shit have repeatedly and overwhelmingly said
“get on with it” and “keep it independent”.</div>
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<div class="">So we are trying to do just that with the least
amount of annoyance to people who did not “opt in”.</div>
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<div class="">In summary, you are welcome - encouraged! - to
socialize this however you feel appropriate. Get your friends to
join pdb-gov. Get them to vote. Get them involved. Post to
whatever mailing list you like - as yourself, individually. But
I am conflicted about the PDB organization itself sending more
emails to more people after we said we would not.</div>
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I agree with Patrick.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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