[Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I've no idea if my input as a hobbyist user is wanted, but from the list of nominees so far, I've been very impressed with their patience with this old fart, and their knowledge, both on the list and on IRC. So the questions I have are, how many 'chairs' are there around this table?

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Hi Gene At the moment, there are 5 board members: Jon Elson Ray Henry Alex Joni John Kasunich Chris Radek (Chairperson) I suspect there will be 5 after the election as well :) - Steve Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings; > >I've no idea if my input as a hobbyist user is wanted, but from the list of

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Chris Radek
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:07:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I've no idea if my input as a hobbyist user is wanted, but from the list of > nominees so far, I've been very impressed with their patience with this old > fart, and their knowledge, both on the list and on IRC. Ever

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: >>>Hi Gene >>> >>>At the moment, there are 5 board members: >>>Jon Elson >>>Ray Henry >>>Alex Joni >>>John Kasunich >>>Chris Radek (Chairperson) >>> >>>I suspect ther

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Gene Heskett wrote: >On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > > >>Hi Gene >> >>At the moment, there are 5 board members: >>Jon Elson >>Ray Henry >>Alex Joni >>John Kasunich >>Chris Radek (Chairperson) >> >>I suspect there will be 5 after the election as well :) >> >>- Steve >>

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-26 Thread Ray Henry
I'll put in a bit of history and m2cw regarding the EMC board about here. Back in the 90s we ganged up on Matt Shaver during the NAMES show and by a show of hands elected him our "supreme superior officer." After a couple of years of this we added some other "board" positions for prominent fo

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Chris Radek wrote: >On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:07:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I've no idea if my input as a hobbyist user is wanted, but from the list >> of nominees so far, I've been very impressed with their patience with this >> old fart, and th

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: >Hi Gene > >At the moment, there are 5 board members: >Jon Elson >Ray Henry >Alex Joni >John Kasunich >Chris Radek (Chairperson) > >I suspect there will be 5 after the election as well :) > >- Steve No doubt. But that does seem to be a pretty

Re: [Emc-users] Board Seats

2007-07-28 Thread paul_c
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 20:14, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > The board is distinct from the developers.  The board is there to make > decisions that affect the direction of development (do we deviate from > the RS274NGC spec, do we add features for 23-axis machines ...), > decisions about things