There are four candidates for the three OpenNTF Contributor Director positions.  So, if you are a registered OpenNTF Contributor, you can help decide who will represent you on the OpenNTF Board of Directors.

To vote, simply send an email to ip-manager@openntf.org with between one and three of the following names before Friday, October 14.  
Niklas Heidloff
Elijah Lapson
Frank van der Linden
Rene Winkelmeyer

To help with your decision, here are the statements from the Candidates.

Niklas Heidloff
Niklas Heidloff has delivered numerous projects on OpenNTF including Mobile Controls, Social Enabler, XPages for Connections, etc. He has also built the new OpenNTF web user interface plus the XPages.info web site, he is continuously maintaining and updating these sites, he has hosted the contests, ideajam etc. As IBM employee working on OpenNTF almost full time Niklas wants to be able to help defining strategy and direction of OpenNTF.

Elijah Lapson
As a Director of IT for a Global non-profit organization I am constantly balancing requests for all type of technology support. When I attempt to prioritize these requests for the organization I look to see which technologies are most appropriate for the job and which solutions will have the largest possible positive impact on our staff. I would love to bring these skills which I have been developing over the past 15 years to OpenNTF. All of those involved with using/developing/administrating a Lotus Notes Domino infrastructure know that the key component of the tools is the ability to get groups of people collaborating effectively in a short period of time. I would like OpenNTF to become the go to place for Developers and Administrators to get information and tools to help their clients collaborate more effectively. I would like OpenNTF to be the go to place to donate a piece of code, an administration tip, or a full blown application to the community. I want OpenNTF with the backing of IBM to be the place where non-Xpage/Domino developers can come and easily get up and running the current Lotus/IBM platforms without a significant time investment in proprietary technologies. Please consider me for a Contributor Director position.

Frank van der Linden
As a OpenNTF contributer I have noticed the growing role of OpenNTF in the IBM/Lotus community.
And as I strongly belief in the power of OpenNTF as the main resource in the IBM/Lotus community, I will be part of OpenNTF to help guiding in the good direction.

Rene Winkelmeyer
The platform of OpenNTF has always been a very helpful and inspiring resource for Notes and Domino developers and administrators around the world. The constitution of the new incorporated OpenNTF is now the right step to evolve to the next level. As seen in the last years more and more 'new' technologies like Plug-Ins, XPages and OSGi haven been added to our most loved platform. As a Director my mission would be to help OpenNTF to force the distribution of knowledge, information and code for those cutting-edge technologies and to attract more (and new) people for this great platform.

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