• Board Members

last modified January 8 by tomlowenhaupt

Our Board of Directors has five voting seats and ex-officio representation. Biographical information and areas of interest / oversight of our board members are presented here.

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Board Membership

We have created a Board Governance Committee to oversee the member recruitment process. We currently have five members and are considering expanding membership. In any such expansion, or in filling vacancies, we will seek members whose backgrounds include the following :

    • knowledge of the city's economic, social, and cultural history and needs;
    • representative of city's cultural and ethnic diversity;
    • passionate about creating better communities and a better city;
    • work comfortably in group situations;
    • listen well and be thoughtful in considering issues;
    • Internet savvy; and
    • willing to make a substantial time commitment for during the acquisition phase (July 2009 - June 2010). This should include one Saturday per month to meet about current issues. Additionally, willingness to take on an occasional special task , e.g., pick up the phone and make a call to that special person, plan or attend a event...
If you are interested in serving on our board, email tom@connectingnyc.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  • ­dotNYC-Thomas-Lowenhaupt2-one-half.JPGThomas Lowenhaupt - Thomas has been engaged with community governance and advanced technologies for 30 years. He was a member of Queens Community Board in 2001 when it passed its Internet Empowerment Resolution and was a founding member of Connecting.nyc Inc. His education includes a B.A. in government studies from Queens College (CUNY), and a Masters from NYU's Interactive Telecom Program (ITP). He is the board chair and currently leads the effort to acquire the .nyc TLD. More.
  • dotNYC-John-Moran-one-half.JPGJohn Moran - John is a retired attorney living in Jackson Heights. He has been involved with civic causes as an advocate for livable communities and for civil rights since 1978. Prior to receiving his law degree, John taught high school Spanish for 8 years.
  • dotNYC-Jeffrey-Barkey-one-half.JPGJeffrey Barke - Jeffrey's immediate portfolio includes guidance on our public facing technology. Professionally, he is committed to W3C standards-compliant HTML and CSS encoding, the practice of unobtrusive JavaScript development and object-oriented PHP scripting, and of a rigorous approach to relational database design. A firm believer in the open source ethos, Jeffrey has a preference for the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) environment, but is also a Microsoft Certified Application Developer. He oversees all aspects of application development for theMechanism.com where he is senior developer and information architect.

    Residing in Brooklyn, but originally from Milwaukee, Jeffrey's studied philosophy, urban geography, and GIS (Geographic Information Systems), and worked in the nonprofit sector creating data maps and desktop applications for community-based social advocacy organizations. Jeffrey spoke at an Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) conference and taught workshops on mashup development at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

    He co-organizes and speaks at the New York Web Standards Group on accessibility, microformats, the Google Maps API, best practices in AJAX-driven user interface design, and natural search engine optimization.

    In addition to his contributions to Connecting.nyc Inc., Jeffrey provides internet consultancy and development assistance to several New York based arts organizations, including Glowlab, ArtBots, and the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology.
  • dotNYC-Jeffrey-Lowenhaupt-one-half.JPGJeffrey Lowenhaupt - Jeffrey is a NYC Teaching Fellow and a graduate of CUNY's Macaulay Honors College. His interests lie in ways we might better connect and train city residents in the opportunities provided by a city-TLD. In addition to his activities with Connecting.nyc Inc., Jeffrey leads the effort to create a dog park for his beloved Pickles in his neighborhood. He maintains oversight of our education efforts.
  • dotNYC-Michael-Johnson-one-half.JPGMichael Johnson - Michael's efforts over the past few years have focused on developing an open source, large-scale collaboration system that will be facilitate governance, particularly e-governance - see Ideologi.org. He was raised and educated in California where he started his business career with Netscape. Now a Manhattan resident, Michael sees keeping a well delineated space between the commercial world and the non-commercial aspect of CnI from inappropriate commercial influences as his portfolio. Until recently Michael worked on a family founded business offering web-based employee training programs. He is interested in the operational processes of a non-profit board and gaining experience for future endeavors (e.g., Ideologi.org).
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  • Hannah Kopelman - Hannah sits in the ex-officio board seat reserved for the coordinator of our Resident Advisory Network. A member of the Internet Society-NY, Hannah is an artist at heart and deed, with a separate professional life that includes network administration and support.

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