I think many good names have come up already and I support those, especially Steve and Nancy for a second term. My motivation is primarily to make room for non-americans in the executive committee. In my opinion, this is important to ensure that AoIR has credibility as an _international_ organisation. (I think it is self-explaining why AoIR in particular should have such credibility.) To achieve this is harder than you might think. More than half our members are American. And most of us would like to vote for someone we know. If all Americans vote for Americans, well... So when voting, please consider international candidates as well. And for you guys from .il, .nz, .jp, etc.: Please come forward with your nominations :) My nominees are: Jenny Sundén (Sweden) jensu@tema.liu.se Frank Schaap (The Netherlands) architext@fragment.nl Stine Gotved (Denmark) gotved@hum.ku.dk Lisbeth Klastrup (Denmark) klastrup@it-c.dk Kate O'Riordan (UK) k.s.o-riordan@sussex.ac.uk Ken Friedman (Norway) ken.friedman@bi.no Nicholas Jankowski (The Netherlands) nickjan@pop.xs4all.nl Nils Zurawski (Germany) zurawsk@uni-muenster.de (I will not run for an open seat myself, but will be happy to serve a second term as Information Officer, if the new executive committee decides it.) Charlie -- Charlie Breindahl Ph.D. Student, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen Web: http://computer.media.ku.dk/breindahl/ E-mail: hitch@hum.ku.dk PGP: ldap://certserver.pgp.com Phone: +45 35 32 81 19 Mobile: +45 51 92 15 98 "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed to turn into knights" - Janet H. Murray