Now that the nomination period is over and all the candidates went unchallenged, I think us candidates can prepare ourselves for an exciting year! I'd like to take the opportunity to congratulate all of us and suggest to start thinking how to make NPOC work better, especially in the role that we applied for. I will have my first appearance as an official NPOC representative in Tallinn next week and am quite thrilled about it! I will be manning the ICANN booth at times, which we share for our spanking new brochures, that aren't even out of the print yet. :) I'm glad to work with you fine people and if no one has any objections, I would like to add these new people to the excom mailing-list already and which we need to open for public scrutiny anyway. -Raoul