With the nomination deadline the day after tomorrow (Friday April 26 5pmEDT), this'll be the final post from me in this thread.
Thanks to those who have nominated me, and I'm happy to have had a role in causing more people to upgrade their membership to full Member.
By my inexact count, I'm about 14 nominations from reaching 100. Nobody has ever been able to achieve success, although a number have tried, and it's both encouraging and disappointing to get so close to the binary decision. And to be the first and only...
If there is still anyone who is a full Member and would be interested to cast a nomination, it's easy and I'd appreciate it:
Create an email to
[email protected]Subject line: 2024 Election Nomination-Mortensen-President
Content: I nominate Dan Mortensen for AES President in the next election.
Then add your name and membership number.
It's probably too late to complete the Associate->Member upgrade in time to nominate, but if you have been considering upgrading, go ahead since there's no deadline for that.
A clear benefit from being a full Member is that, if you've paid dues for 20+ years, and been a full Member for 5 years when you turn 65, you can apply to be a Life Member and not have to pay dues again. You get in free to Conventions but not Conferences. That's a good deal and a benefit I enjoy.
FYI, a lot of the meetings I've done for my Section have been about the subjects covered in this forum at one time or another, and I've always enjoyed and learned from being part of this group.
Here is a document that's now on my AES profile; if you scroll through it past the bio stuff there's a list of the meetings and links to the meeting summaries. A lot of them are us getting piles of gear together and messing around with it, as we like to do.
Thanks to those who have helped me get this far, and especially to Dave Stevens for creating this wonderful resource that we still enjoy every day.
Dan
