Folks, Following up on Joe's message, I wanted to remind folks that we are approaching the annual NANOG election and appointment time, and to ask you to consider nominating qualified folks for the NANOG Program Committee. The Program Committee is a group of sixteen individuals from the NANOG community who together are responsible for the solicitation and selection of material for NANOG meeting Programs. A new Program Committee will be selected by the Steering Committee after the election in October. Eight positions are to be filled. The currently-serving Program Committee members whose terms are expiring are Joel Jaeggli, Rodney Joffe, Sylvie LaPerriere, Kevin Oberman, Lane Patterson, Ren Provo, Josh Snowhorn and Todd Underwood. Furthermore, Joel, Ren, Josh and Todd have all served two consecutive terms so per the charter, they cannot be considered for another Program Committee appointment until October 2010. Important Dates: PC Nominations begin: Sep 08 2009 PC Candidate Information posted/nominations close: Oct 19 2009 New PC appointed: Oct 22 2009 Please consider nominating those people who meet the criteria set forth in the charter [0] and who will are interested in helping to continue (and improve) the overall quality of the NANOG program. Thanks, Dave (for the NANOG Program Committee) [0] Please see http://nanog.org/governance/charter, Section 6.2.1.