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Kendal is a database strategist, community advocate, public speaker, and blogger. A practiced IT professional with over 15 years of SQL Server experience, Kendal excels at disaster recovery, high availability planning/implementation, & debugging/troubleshooting mission critical SQL Server environments. Kendal is a Senior Consultant on the Microsoft Premier Developer Support team and President of MagicPASS, the Orlando, FL based chapter of PASS. Before joining Microsoft, Kendal was a SQL Server/Data Platform MVP from 2011-2016.
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Awesome, I get to make the first comment.
Currently the by-laws do not allow a community choice vote for the elections. If you are saying that only 1 of the rejected candidates can be added to the ballot by a community vote then I'd still be off the ballot this year.
Great post. One point though:
"At last year's Summit the entire BoD was available for an hour-long Q&A session. I was there and if memory serves me correct there were as many BoD members on stage answering questions as people who showed up to ask them."
That's because the BoD announced it last-minute and it conflicted with sessions. I couldn't go because I was presenting, for one. It shouldn't have been scheduled at the same time as community presentations, and it should have been publicized.
Jack, I read the bylaws and I think there's enough wiggle room in there for the NomCom to present a revised slate that includes a community choice or someone on the BoD to "sponsor" a community choice candidate.
Are you assuming that you wouldn't win the community choice? For that matter whose to say that there would even be enough votes for the community choice to be valid in the first place? My point by suggesting a minimum is to prove out that the community at large cares enough to make it happen vs. the vocal minority making an issue bigger than it potetially is.
Brent, valid point about the meeting at the Summit but I don't think it was done so as to exclude people from attending. They did ask bloggers and speakers to spread the word. I hope that this year they do another session and do a better job of advertising it ahead of time.
Let me piggy-back on to what Brent said. Realize that anything "at the Summit" excludes the majority of the community who can't make the Summit. Like virtually my entire chapter (only 1 of my chapter is going to the Summit this year because of cost and location). What about a LiveMeeting session or something of that sort? That will include more people.
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