The New York Tech Meetup, now 19,524 members strong, is holding an election for one of the 13 positions on its board of directors. Last year, Anil Dash and Evan Korth were elected by members; so far, 28 people have been nominated for this election’s spots. The nominees are not official candidates until they accept their nominations.
“Not only will four Board members be directly elected by the broader membership (referred to as “Class B Members” in the Bylaws), but we’ve also decided that the Programming Committee, which governs our monthly Meetup and other programming, will always be Chaired by one of the member-elected Board members,” the NYTM says on its website.
New Work City is hosting a meet-the-candidates event tonight at 7 p.m. Nominations close tomorrow, candidates will speak on December 5 and the election will be held online starting December 6.
Nominees as of 9:38 a.m. on November 28*:
Murat Aktihanoglu
Tony Bacigalupo
Peter Chislett
Rohan Deuskar
Brandon Diamond
Phil Thomas Di Giulio
Eric Friedman
Shai Goldman
Alexis Goldstein
Baba Guhan
Dan Healy
Whitney Hess
Nathan Hurst
Vanessa Hurst
Jalak Jobanputra
Izzy Johnston
Ben Kessler
Matthew Knell
Tarikh Korula
Jesse Landry
Michael Liebow
Gregory Schnese
Evan Schreiber
Scott Schwaitzberg
Elena Silenok
David Tisch
Jack Welde
Wei Zhao
Nominations can be submitted online until 11:59 p.m. time on November 30, 2011.
It was only a year ago that New York Tech Meetup incorporated as a nonprofit.
