Dear NYCwireless Memebers, The NYCwireless board elections are ending this weekend. voted will not be accepted past saturday, 8/2/03. The results of the vote will be tallied and delivered to the greater NYCwireless community monday afternoon. Once again, only members are allowed to vote. If you are a member and have not voted, please review the candidate's information below and email your votes to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; you may vote for 2 candidates. if you are not a member, but still wish to participate in this election, you may apply for membership online by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your personal information (name, email, level of techinical expertise, whether or not you are interested in vollunteering) as well as sending a $22 paypal donation to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information about membership please visit: http://www.nycwireless.net/membership/
Below you will find a list of candidates and their statements of intent: 1. Ladjick� Diouf I hereby confirm my intention to be an active member of the NYCwireless board. I have telecom working experience at AT&T as a Systems engineer and more recently at Motorola. At Motorola, I�ve deployed their networks at major client sites and my last assignment was as a System Architect in their multimedia messaging division in Mountain View, CA. I�ve also had the opportunity to contribute to Wireless Village standards now part of the Open Mobile Alliance. After that experience I came back to Columbia University to finish a Master in Electrical Engineering. Wireless networking is my area of interest and I see Wi-Fi as the solution for wireless data that will allow carriers to bypass 3G data solutions. I believe in Wi-Fi and I want to be involved as much as possible, that�s my main motivation for wanting to be a part of the NYCwireless board. 2. Dana Spiegel As a member of NYCwireless for the past 2 years, I have seen the organization grow tremendously. We have, in those two years, built many public networks and have helped educate the community about Wi-Fi technology. Over the coming years, I believe it is essential for NYCwireless to continue to reach out to the community, expand our connections to the industry and the research communities, and to support all aspects of wireless technology, not just hardware and network design. As a board member, my mandate will be to expand NYCwireless' reach, while maintaining and increasing our connection with our members. My primary goals as a board member are to: - Represent NYCwireless in the tradition that has been maintained by the current board - Increase my leadership of Apps SIG, including seeking funding for new projects - Raise the visibility of NYCwireless' Apps and Arts SIGs in media and industry - Increase my participation in representing NYCwireless to media and industry organizations - Build partnerships with companies creating software and services in the Wi-Fi space - Bridge new partnerships with other user organizations to build new apps and services, as I have helped do with NYPHP - Work with members to increase participation in projects - Expand the reach of Apps SIG to include usage and evaluation of third party software and services - Create new and exciting programs that expand NYCwireless visibility and membership, such as our Wireless Art Project 3. Joe Plotkin As an early outspoken supporter of NYCwireless and the free wireless movement, I feel I bring a wide range of experience and skills that would help amplify our message and grow the organization. -First, I have been a leading advocate in the ISP community to encouraging ISPs to allow their customers to share their broadband connections publicly. (see: http://ispcon.com/spring2003/attend-sessionlist.asp?CS_ID=902 ). I believe that adding an ISP to the NYC Wireless Board would greatly reinforce this message. -Secondly, I hope to use my marketing, media and business development skills to expand NYCwireless' outreach, to help more businesses and individuals run access points as well as developing closer relationships with software and hardware vendors. -Third, NYCwireless' preeminent position in the free wireless movement should be expanded by taking leadership positions on appropriate political and regulatory issues, like increasing spectrum allocation for public use. I intend to help Dustin and others on the political front, having run public media campaigns and lobbied Congress, the White House and the FCC on behalf of ISPs. Finally, I hope NYC wireless will be able to stage one or two large public events each year, to promote our agenda, celebrate our community and generate some funding. My pre-broadband career was largely spent as a rock concert promoter, so I'd be glad to produce and manage these events. 4. Yury Gitman I'd like to be considered for the board so I can play a more active role in helping NYCWireless expand it's voice and further it's mission, to provide free wireless Internet in public spaces. I've been active in the organization already by starting the Arts group which seeks to bring design professionals, artists, and New York's creative capital into the WiFi space. Additionally, a wireless game I co-created and produced to spread the "share to bandwidth" message, Noderunner, emerged not only as a successful collaborate between NYCWireless and Eyebeam (a top art and technology organization) but also received Europe's highest electronic art award in 2003, the Golden Nica. Noderunner, Magicbike (www.magicbike.net, a bicycle hotpsot), and the NYCWireless Arts group all represent my commitment to seeing that NYCWireless is active in developing new technology, new usage models, and new inroads to community development and involvement. As a board member I will help NYCWireless pursue community and technology-based grants and develop relationships with other organizations and establishments that further NYCwireless's mission. Thank you for your consideration. BIO: Yury Gitman is a wireless and emerging media artist. His projects, noderunner.com, magicbike.net, and evill.net, use WiFi, the web, hardware hacks, and cultural forces to create expressive art pieces and initiate public interventions. He was awarded the Golden Nica for Net Vision at Ars Electronic 2003, and has exhibited work at Eyebeam, the New Museum, and elsewhere. Currently he teaches wireless art to graduate students at the Parsons School of Design. Additionally, he is the director of the Arts group at NYCWireless. He received a Masters and Bachelors degree from New York University and the Georgia Institute of Technology respectively. 5. Dario Laverde Statement: I'd like to become a board member to help the organization achieve and expand it's mission to serve the NYC area WiFi community. To continue my active participation in promoting community nodes with the Community Outreach Effort SIG as well my participation with software projects (e.g. PDA project) with the Apps SIG. As well as bring in non-profit organizational experience and software design expertise. Bio: An Electrical Engineer with Java/C++ programming and software architecture expertise (8+ years). Currently the founder of Mediatracker software which is developing a commercial hotspot software product, ControlAP to help promote free community nodes. Previously he served as VP of System Architecture at an online games dot com, PlayLink and can also be found lecturing at the NYPC users group as the chair of the C++ and Java SIG. 5. Dario Laverde Statement: I'd like to become a board member to help the organization achieve and expand it's mission to serve the NYC area WiFi community. To continue my active participation in promoting community nodes with the Community Outreach Effort SIG as well my participation with software projects (e.g. PDA project) with the Apps SIG. As well as bring in non-profit organizational experience and software design expertise. Bio: An Electrical Engineer with Java/C++ programming and software architecture expertise (8+ years). Currently the founder of Mediatracker software which is developing a commercial hotspot software product, ControlAP to help promote free community nodes. Previously he served as VP of System Architecture at an online games dot com, PlayLink and can also be found lecturing at the NYPC users group as the chair of the C++ and Java SIG. .jordan. Jordan Schuster NYCwireless http://www.NYCwireless.net e/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] p/ 917-697-7616 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
