GCD Board Votes - 2007
January 2007
VOTE: NEW POSITIONS Message-ID: <008f01c72ff9$2a7596a0$6502a8c0@Matthias>
Dear Board members,
the first vote of the year is regarding the creation of two new GCD positions.
The first proposal is by Jim Ludwig. It was seconded by Matthias Hofmann. The second proposal is by Will Allred. It was seconded by Ray Bottorff Jr.
Please vote on the following subjects with an "X":
1. ESTABLISHING A SENIOR EDITOR POSITION
We want to create the official position of "GCD Senior Editor" to better reflect the current situation.
This position includes: - must be experienced enough to help other editors - OI (Online Index) Access level: Administrator - processing of Admin duties - maintaining all GCD email lists including the all country-specific lists
VOTE: Should the position of "GCD Senior Editor" be created officially?
( ) Yes ( ) No ( ) Abstention
2. ESTABLISHING A PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR
We want to create the official position of "GCD Promotions Coordinator" to better reflect the current situation.
This position includes: - Public Relations for the GCD project - advertisment - press releases
VOTE: Should the position of "GCD Promotions Coordinator" be created officially?
( ) Yes ( ) No ( ) Abstention
Deadline: January 13, 2007.
Please post your vote to the GCD Board List.
VOTE: NEW POSITIONS - RESULTS Message-ID: <024f01c7326c$7aefef70$6502a8c0@Matthias>
Hello Board,
the results are in. I am counting them before the deadline because everybody has sent in their votes and we want to resolve this as quickly as possible.
All nine GCD Board members voted on the subject.
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1. VOTE: ESTABLISHING A SENIOR EDITOR POSITION
We want to create the official position of "GCD Senior Editor" to better reflect the current situation.
This position includes: - must be experienced enough to help other editors - OI (Online Index) Access level: Administrator - processing of Admin duties - maintaining all GCD email lists including the all country-specific lists
QUESTION: Should the position of "GCD Senior Editor" be created officially?
7 Yes 77.8% 1 No 11.1% 1 Abstention 11.1%
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2. VOTE: ESTABLISHING A PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR
We want to create the official position of "GCD Promotions Coordinator" to better reflect the current situation.
This position includes: - Public Relations for the GCD project - advertisment - press releases
QUESTION: Should the position of "GCD Promotions Coordinator" be created officially?
7 Yes 77.8% 1 No 11.1% 1 Abstention 11.1%
This means that we will create those two positions. The final job descriptions need to be written and approved. I suggest that the Board members who voted with "No" and "Abstention" bring forward their concerns and objections now, so this can be considered when the jobs are finalized and occupied by actual persons.
MOTION? Re: GCD Board - Press Release In-Reply-To: <00f401c7319e$2f7fb1c0$6502a8c0@Matthias> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I didn't really state it as a motion, so let's do this:
I Move that we release the Press Release, as listed below, with the missing fields filled in. Now, if you will second it Matthias (or someone else) then please send out the ballot today if you can. As this has some ugency, I would say if you get enough votes that state yes to carry the motion we proceed ahead with Ray acting as publicity person and send this out, instead of waiting for the last few votes to straggle in. Mike Nielsen
"Matthias Hofmann (GCD)" <[email protected]> wrote:
I would like to start the vote. Whenever ready, let me know, and we can start the vote. Tomorrow, I will post the ballots for Chairman+Secretary by the way. Regards, Matthias ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Nielsen To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 11:58 AM Subject: MOTION? Re: GCD Board - Press Release
I've filled in a few blanks from an email Ramon sent. He joined in 2005 and at the time had 1546 or so, which I say should be "over 1500". All we need is the start date for the GCD. Someone should have that. I know it's been over 10 years, but that's all I know. I say fill that in and send it, Ray. I suppose we need to vote on it, but can we make it a quick vote. We really need to get this thing out. Mike Nielsen
[email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 1/5/07 8:13:46 PM, [email protected] writes:
I think Gregg agreed that it had to be Ramon, so I'd go with that.
Who has the info for the other points we need?
I'm going to limited on-line this weekend, lots of stuff going on here, but I'll check in as I can.
Mike Nielsen
Here is the original email that needed to be filled in...
Let's the the world know about it!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GCD Passes 100,000 Mark
While comics fans the world over were unwrapping their gifts over the holidays, the indefatigable indexers at the Grand Comics Database celebrated a major milestone -- individually indexing over 100,000 comic books!
The honor of indexing the 100,000th issue went to Ramon Schenk, working on the Charlton title "Li'l Genius" at 10:40 a.m. UTC/GMT (5:40 a.m. EST), December 25, 2006.
[Anybody know what issue number? Ramon?]
Schenk has been indexing for the GCD since 2005 and has over 1500 issues to his credit.
The Grand Comics Database (www.comics.org), an online all-volunteer organization, was founded in _____ and is dedicated to indexing every comic book ever published, worldwide. In its ____ years of service to the online comics community, the GCD has identified over 1.5 million individual comic book credits from more than 3,000 publishers.
The GCD catalogs key story information, creator information, and other information which is useful to readers, fans, hobbyists, and researchers and makes it available to anyone through a simple, searchable website at www.comics.org.
Statistics on the project are updated every 30 minutes on the GCD homepage (www.comics.org) and currently show: 3,185 Publishers/imprints 20,226 Series 264,385 books (100,004 indexed) 517,741 Story objects 1,572,173 credits 136,170 covers
For further information, including information on how you can contribute to the greatest comic book cataloging project of all time, contact: [Ray?]
The last part could still be me as I am, I guess, still promotions coordinator...or it could be you Mike, now that you'll soon become Board Chair... or anyone else for that matter. The inquires are pretty much guarantee to be very few, if any at all.
I would love to see the web page updated before the press release goes out.
Please vote on the following subjects with an "X":
We want to send out a press release to announce our 100'000 indexed comic book. The text was written mainley by Mike Catron.
Press Release text (Quote):
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GCD Passes 100,000 Mark
While comics fans the world over were unwrapping their gifts over the holidays, the indefatigable indexers at the Grand Comics Database celebrated a major milestone -- individually indexing over 100,000 comic books!
The honor of indexing the 100,000th issue went to Ramon Schenk, working on the Charlton title "Li'l Genius" at 10:40 a.m. UTC/GMT (5:40 a.m. EST), December 25, 2006.
[Anybody know what issue number? Ramon?]
Schenk has been indexing for the GCD since 2005 and has over 1500 issues to his credit.
The Grand Comics Database (www.comics.org), an online all-volunteer organization, was founded in _____ and is dedicated to indexing every comic book ever published, worldwide. In its ____ years of service to the online comics community, the GCD has identified over 1.5 million individual comic book credits from more than 3,000 publishers.
The GCD catalogs key story information, creator information, and other information which is useful to readers, fans, hobbyists, and researchers and makes it available to anyone through a simple, searchable website at www.comics.org.
Statistics on the project are updated every 30 minutes on the GCD homepage (www.comics.org) and currently show: 3,185 Publishers/imprints 20,226 Series 264,385 books (100,004 indexed) 517,741 Story objects 1,572,173 credits 136,170 covers
For further information, including information on how you can contribute to the greatest comic book cataloging project of all time, contact: [Ray]
(UNQUOTE) VOTE: PRESS RELEASE In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Not trying to step on the new Secretary's toes here, but that should be everyone on the vote and I don't remember a single no vote.
Ray, do you have the updated one? Since you are our 'publicity' guy for now, do you want to start sending it out? If you could send me a copy of what you are sending, I have a few places I'd like to send it, some blogs and such that use our site quite a bit, we might get a few plugs from them
So officially:
The following vote of the GCD board of directors has unanimously passed:
We want to send out a press release to announce our 100'000 indexed
> comic book. > The text was written mainley by Mike Catron. > > Press Release text (Quote): > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > GCD Passes 100,000 Mark > > While comics fans the world over were unwrapping their gifts over the > holidays, the indefatigable indexers at the Grand Comics Database > celebrated a major milestone -- individually indexing over 100,000 > comic books! > > The honor of indexing the 100,000th issue went to Ramon Schenk, > working on the Charlton title "Li'l Genius" at 10:40 a.m. UTC/GMT > (5:40 a.m. EST), December 25, 2006. > > [Anybody know what issue number? Ramon?] > > Schenk has been indexing for the GCD since 2005 and has over 1500 > issues to his credit. > > The Grand Comics Database (<A HREF="http://www.comics.org/">www.comics.org</A>), an online all-volunteer > organization, was founded in _____ and is dedicated to indexing every > comic book ever published, worldwide. In its ____ years of service to > the online comics community, the GCD has identified over 1.5 million > individual comic book credits from more than 3,000 publishers. > > The GCD catalogs key story information, creator information, and > other information which is useful to readers, fans, hobbyists, and > researchers and makes it available to anyone through a simple, > searchable website at <A HREF="http://www.comics.org/">www.comics.org</A>. > > Statistics on the project are updated every 30 minutes on the GCD > homepage (<A HREF="http://www.comics.org/">www.comics.org</A>) and currently show: > 3,185 Publishers/imprints > 20,226 Series > 264,385 books (100,004 indexed) > 517,741 Story objects > 1,572,173 credits > 136,170 covers > > For further information, including information on how you can > contribute to the greatest comic book cataloging project of all time, > contact: [Ray] > > (UNQUOTE)
VOTE: CHAIRMAN & SECRETARY OF THE GCD BOARD
Message-ID: <028a01c7326e$07323230$6502a8c0@Matthias>
Hello Board members,
it's time to have our vote for Chairman and Secretary.
Ray and myself will not run again this time.
Mike Nielsen is running for Chairman. His announcement reads as follows:
QUOTE: I'll throw my hat into the ring for Chairman. I would like to see the board deal with several issues that are coming to a head. We need to update the Charter and By-laws to reflect how we are currently doing things and to change anything that needs to be changed. We need to "ride herd" on the tech guys to make sure that progress is being done, and also to get ahead of them on issues like location of servers. The third big item I see ahead of us is incorporation. Are we goint to incorporate or not? It needs to be decided, and if we are then we need to move forward. As far as where we will be in 5 or 10 years, I think that's hard to say. A lot of that will hinge on what happens in the next few years, along with where we have come from. I would like to see us get to the point where the GCD's credits are accepted by the comic community at large as the definitive answer of 'Who Did That?'. UNQUOTE
Lou Mazzella is running for Secretary. His announcement reads as follows:
QUOTE: I'd like to go ahead and present myself as a choice for Board secretary. UNQUOTE
Voting to start on 00:00 GMT Sunday January 7, and will end 23:59 GMT Saturday January 13.
We have one seat each to fill. Select one option next to each candidate for each job and mark it between brackets with an "X".
Example:
(X) John Doe
IMPORTANT:
Please post your vote/ballot to the mailing lists! Deadline: January, 13 2007
1. VOTE: Chairman of the GCD Board of Directors
Candidate:
( ) Mike Nielsen ( ) No ( ) Abstention
2. VOTE: Secretary of the GCD Board of Directors
Candidate:
( ) Lou Mazzella ( ) No ( ) Abstention
DEADLINE:
Please post your ballot back by January 13, 2007.
VOTE: CHAIRMAN & SECRETARY OF THE GCD BOARD - RESULTS Message-ID: <017c01c734d4$6a16aad0$6502a8c0@Matthias>
Hello Board,
the results are in. I am counting them before the deadline because everybody has sent in their votes.
All nine GCD Board members voted on the subject.
1. VOTE: Chairman of the GCD Board of Directors
Candidate:
9 100% Mike Nielsen 0 0% No 0 0% Abstention
2. VOTE: Secretary of the GCD Board of Directors
Candidate:
9 100% Lou Mazzella 0 0% No 0 0% Abstention
Congratulations to the new Chairman and Secretary!
I will send out my last BOARD UPDATE next annoucing the result.
GCD Board - election rules revisited Message-ID: <20070115025346.FRBJ8137.ibm68aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>
One thing for one motion. I make a motion >
> > that we officially adopt the last 14 days of the > > month of October >(12:00:00am GMT, October 18th - 11:59:59pm GMT > > October 31st) as the official >period that people may announce their > > candidacy for the Board