[SIPForum-discussion] SIP Forum Board of Directors - candidate nominations open

[Jay Batson]

Dear SIP Forum Member --

In accordance with the Bylaws of the SIP Forum, individuals on the  
SIP Forum Board of Directors serve for two (2) year terms.  At each  
year's General Meeting, elections are held to vote for Directors.

At this year's General Meeting, three Director seats are open for  
election.  Nominations for Directors to be elected in this meeting  
can be made by any member -- Participant or Full.

Nominations are open until August 1, 2005.  If you would like to  
nominate any person to serve as Director, please do the following:

- Send email to me, Jay Batson, Chairman of the Board, at the address  
below, indicating the name and contact information for the nominee;

- The nominee should send to me -- before the expiration of the  
nomination period -- a biographical paragraph, and a one-paragraph  
statement that will be published to the voting membership indicating  
why the nominee believes he/she wishes to serve as Director.

Final notes about Director elections:
1)  Please note that, according to SIP Forum Bylaws, anyone can  
nominate a person for Director, but only Full Members are entitled to  
vote for Director nominees, which is done in conjunction with the  
annual General Meeting.

2) For reference, some, but not all, of the Directors in the three  
seats up for election are standing for re-election.

3)  Directors do not "represent" a company or Full Member; they are  
elected as individuals.  (E.g. a different person from a company  
cannot be "substituted" for another person who was duly elected; and  
if a Forum Director leaves the employ of a company, he/she remains a  
Director outside of that company.)

Thank you in advance for any nominations you provide.
Cheers
-jb

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Jay Batson
batsonjay at sipforum.org
+1-978-824-0111