Board of Directors Candidates

The following DACS members have been nominated for the Board of Directors for 2010-2012. Please show your support by voting at the annual meeting, December 7, or by volunteering to serve on our Board.

Richard Corzo (incumbent) – Richard Corzo has been a computer programmer for over 25 years starting on IBM mainframes and working his way down to personal computers. He's been a PC user and DACS member since 1993, a Mac user since 2000, and has written many articles on operating systems and utlilities for the DACS newsletter. He has been leader of the Macintosh SIG since the spring of 2004, and is interested in contributing a Macintosh perspective to the board. In April, 2010, Richard became DACS president.

Richard F. DiFranco – Richard has been a DACS member since 1986 and is very active in many SIGs. He is also responsible for the monthly press releases sent to all area publications and media stations, and is a frequent dacs.doc contributor.

A retired application programmer, Richard has a continuing involvement in all computer related activities.

Patrick Libert (incumbent) – A resident of Litchfield and a member of DACS for four years, he has actively participated in the Mac SIG. He has been using Apple computers since 1992, but is fully competent with PC's. He has been working actively for five years as a volunteer testing the latest builds of the Opera browser.

Patrick has spent most of his career working with French and Belgian companies which manufac- ture glass and plastic packaging for the cosmetics industry. He is fluent in French and has traveled extensively for business to many countries before he retired in 1998. He lived in Ridgefield for 23 years, moved to Hawaii for seven and then returned to Connecticut in late 2001.

Patrick is delighted to be a member of DACS and he hopes that his varied experience will help the Society to continue its growth and participation in our community.

Rob Limbaugh (incumbent) – Rob has been infatuated with computers since his first experi- ence with Commodore and Apple machines in the early 80's. He got his first 'professional' computer job working for an OEM/VAR system builder in the mid-west. For the past 8 years he has been a system administrator for a global corporation.

Rob came to DACS in April, 2006 and quickly established a leadership role, joining the board eight months later and serving as president from 2008 to 2010.

Joseph Tobin – At sixteen years old, in the tenth grade, Joseph Tobin is already a two-year veteran on the DACS Board of Directors. He started at eight with video games and became intrigued with creating ‘virtual reality’ out of something called a ‘program’. He began getting into the basics of using a graphical computer, and around the age of 12 he learned the Ruby language, and was programming in no time at all.

Joseph developed an interest in Linux and learned how to create a ‘Dual Boot’, eventually running only Linux . He also started getting into Vector Graphics, playing with HTM and some more complicated programming languages.

Joining DACS and the Linux SIG., he was then nominated and voted to be on the Board of Directors. He says he learned a great deal and enjoys discussing Linux with the group. “One of the most appealing aspects of the DACS group is that my comments and questions are always welcome. I enjoy trying new things, and look forward to continuing with DACS.”

Andy Woodruff – Andy Woodruff has been a DACS member for 20 years and Bethel homeowner for 23 years. He has experience on the Boards of nonprofit organizations of various sizes. He served five years as a Board member and Chair of the Finance Committee, at an organization that is much larger than DACS and runs a budget over $1 million per year (www.rowecenter.org). At the other end of the spectrum, he chaired the startup committee that wrote the organizational Bylaws and obtained IRS 501(c)(3) status for a new nonprofit organization (www.ctswing.org). Andy has dual careers as an engineer and professional cellist, both on a contracting basis. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, and has degrees in physics and electrical engineering from Brown University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Andy participates in the Web Design, Drupal, and Digital Imaging SIG’s.