Meet the Candidates!

 

Molly Duncan

Jane Hill

Chris Kramer

Mike Kruchoski

Mike Kruchoski will be a ten-year NMIPA member this fall -- not quite a founding member, but he's seen a few of our more "colorful" members come and go.  As a past membership chair, he was responsible for having persuaded a few of them to maintain their memberships, perhaps a bit longer than they ought to have.

Although Mike didn't help Al Gore (and Barb Tomlin) invent the Internet, he's been a long-time computer network user, dating back to the distant days of gopher, WAIS, and other archaic predecessors of the Worldwide Web.  Heck, he's even used lynx and Mosaic browsers.  Mike was once a self-taught BBS sysop who could do a complete system backup -- a whopping 20MB! -- in less than three minutes, while others took more than three hours.  Today, he's just a retired scientific analyst and engineer, with more than 35 years experience in a variety of military, technical, and social disciplines.

Always the skeptic about the "Internet snake oil" peddled during the early heyday of Internet commercialization, he's a down-to-earth realist.  He stays focused on making technology work for us, not the other way around.  He never lets technology become a substitute for real relationships with people.  (It's just a tool, folks, just a tool.)  He loves to debunk technologists' starry-eyed claims and help everyday users find tools that work for them.  He promises to do a conscientious job on the Board for you.

 

Michael Odza

John Schroeder

Peter Small

 

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