[PDB Gov] Call for candidates for Board of Directors of PeeringDB & Member mtg reminder

[Chris Caputo]

This is a call for candidates for the Board of Directors of PeeringDB.

 - The second half of April, there will be an election for the Board of 
   Directors. Like the last election, BigPulse.com will be used, along 
   with Single-Transferable-Vote (STV). The STV results table will be part 
   of the election results.

 - Candidacies along with max 300 word statements should be submitted to 
   secretary at peeringdb.com prior to April 15th. Anyone can run for 
   election to the Board.

The organization documents (Articles, Bylaws, etc), Board meeting minutes, 
and finances, are up at:

  https://gov.peeringdb.com/

There are 5 seats on the Board of Directors, 2 of which are up for 
election this year. A Director term is 2 years.

Election dates are UTC. Candidates must submit their name and a maximum 
300 word statement, as determined by the POSIX "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 wc -w" 
command, by April 14th 23:59:59 UTC 2020.

A voter's guide containing the current list of candidates and statements, 
sorted alphabetically by last name, will be kept updated at:

  https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/misc/2020-04-14_election.html

Candidates may revise their statements until the April 15th UTC cut-off. 

Please submit your candidacy or questions/concerns to 
secretary at peeringdb.com. Please know that for the month of April, email to 
secretary at peeringdb.com goes to secretary Chris Caputo and election 
observer Steve Feldman.

Discussion/questions/concerns also welcome on pdb-gov at lists.peeringdb.com.

Chris Caputo
Secretary, PeeringDB

PS: The April Member Meeting agenda is below and calendar ICS file for it 
is attached.

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** Notice of the Annual Meeting of PeeringDB - Friday April 17th, 2020 at 1600-1700 UTC

** The meeting will be held online as follows:

     https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/546414541

     [dial-in numbers below]

** The meeting will be recorded.

** Bylaws and important docs are posted at https://gov.peeringdb.com/

** Please contact stewards at peeringdb.com if you have additional agenda suggestions.

Agenda:

 - Call To Order - Aaron Hughes

 - Welcome & Thanks - Aaron Hughes

 - Approval of minutes from previous meeting - Aaron Hughes

     https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/legaldocs/2019-04-25_PeeringDB_Member_Meeting_Minutes.pdf

 - Financial Update & Call For Sponsors - Chris Caputo

 - Admin Committee Update - Stefan Funke

 - Operations Committee Update - Job Snijders

 - Outreach Committee Update - Greg Hankins

 - Product Committee Update

 - Data Ownership Task Force Update - Filiz Yilmaz

 - Items brought up by the members / Technical and Policy Questions & Answers

 - Encourage Voting in Board Election - Aaron Hughes

 - Adjourn

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