<div dir="auto"><div>Congratulations to the new Chair and the six Vice-Chairs! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We can hopefully take up more activities given this additional capacity within the leadership.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">satish</div><br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 24, 2017 20:15, "Andre Schappo" <<a href="mailto:A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk">A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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① I am ok with having 6 vice chairs. I think it will be good for this group. The names are familiar to me and they are all people who contribute significantly to UA & i18n
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<div>② How many subscribers does this ua-discuss list have? I am interested in how many people have a direct interest in UA.</div>
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<div>On 23 Feb 2017, at 19:04, Ram Mohan <<a href="mailto:rmohan@afilias.info" target="_blank">rmohan@afilias.info</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">First off, thank you for re-nominating me to the Chair of this community initiative! I’m pleased and honored to serve this second and last term.</span></div>
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and energy to build momentum for the UA initiative – that’s phenomenal!</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">May I suggest that we accept
<b>all six</b> volunteers to the position, and do away with a vote? I know that I could use the help, and I also know that corralling the energies of these six individuals, all of whom who have already participated and made material contributions to
the UA initiative, will be a worthwhile enterprise.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If you agree with my proposal (or have a different point of view), please post back to the list. If we can hear some consensus on my proposed approach,
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a>Skype:gliderpilot30</a> |@rmohan123|<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/<wbr>in/rmohan</a></span></div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [UA-discuss] Election update...</span></div>
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