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2004 USENIX Nominating Committee
Dan Geer (Chair), Consultant
Andrew Hume, AT&T Labs—Research
Aviel D. Rubin, Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute

Report from the Nominating Committee
The USENIX Association is governed by its Bylaws and by its Board of Directors. Elections are held every two years, and all eight Board members are elected at the same time. Four of them serve as at large and four also serve as statutory officers—President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary.

Per Article 7.1 of the Bylaws of the USENIX Association, a Nominating Committee proposes a slate of board members for the membership's consideration. As a practical matter, the purpose of a Nominating Committee is to balance continuity and capability so as to ensure that the incoming Board is composed of persons shown by their actions to be both dedicated to the Association and be prepared to lead it forward.

Our recommendations to you are as follows:

PRESIDENT:	Mike Jones, Microsoft Research
VICE-PRESIDENT:	Clem Cole, Ammasso
SECRETARY:	Alva Couch, Tufts University
TREASURER:	Ted Ts'o, IBM
AT LARGE:	Brian Noble, University of Michigan Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group John Nicholson, Shaw Pittman LLP Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Consultant Jon "maddog" Hall, Linux International

We have every confidence that this slate is exactly what the Association needs. As always, if you feel otherwise we invite you to submit your own name according to Article 7 if you feel better qualified to lead; this is exactly what democracy is about. As to your nominees, you will hear more from them directly. In the meantime, we thank the Association for this opportunity to serve in this most important of roles, but more importantly we thank the nominees for their willingness to stand for election and to serve.

Dan Geer, Chair, Nominating Committee

Original Letter from the Chair