# Nominations for two open Council of Elders seats (Oct 10 through Oct 20, 2023) **URL:** \ **Category:** Council of Elders\ **Created:** [October 10, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715 "2023-10-10T10:39:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![uuazed](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/uuazed/32/3333_2.png) [@uuazed](https://forum.numer.ai/u/uuazed)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/1 "2023-10-10T10:39:58Z")
Please nominate your fellow participants to take over one of the two open seats on the Council of Elders currently occupied by ‘arbitrage’ and ‘TheMicon’. Nominated participants must accept their nominations in this thread as well to be included in the poll that we will conduct on Numerbay. For reference, checkout the nominees in the last election: [Nominations for open Council of Elders seat (June 21 through June 28, 2022)](http://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-open-council-of-elders-seat-june-21-through-june-28-2022/5526) Nominations will be open from Oct 10 through Oct 20 at midnight UTC. Voting will last one week after the close of nominations. Current nominations and responses correlator declined **bigbertha (gbrecht)** accepted degerhan declined gammarat declined jefferythewind declined **ia\_ai** accepted joakim declined jrai declined murkyautomata declined nyuton declined quantverse declined restrading declined @shatteredx **studym8** accepted **wigglemuse** accepted ---
**Author:** ![uuazed](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/uuazed/32/3333_2.png) [@uuazed](https://forum.numer.ai/u/uuazed)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/2 "2023-10-10T18:52:12Z")
I’d like to nominate (in alphabetical order): @correlator @degerhan @jefferythewind @ia_ai @jrai @restrading ---
**Author:** ![dzheng1887](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@dzheng1887](https://forum.numer.ai/u/dzheng1887)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/3 "2023-10-10T20:06:23Z")
nevermind, best of luck to all! ---
**Author:** ![unsentient](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/unsentient/32/3438_2.png) [@unsentient](https://forum.numer.ai/u/unsentient)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/5 "2023-10-11T00:57:16Z")
I nominate @wigglemuse, @shatteredx, @gbrecht, @nyuton, and @joakim ---
**Author:** ![degerhan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/degerhan/32/3449_2.png) [@degerhan](https://forum.numer.ai/u/degerhan)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/6 "2023-10-11T07:50:15Z")
Thank you for the nomination. I respectfully decline. I nominate: @wigglemuse @quantverse @shatteredx @correlator @ia_ai (ia\_ai\_Joe) @jefferythewind ~~surajp~~ (edit: just realized surajp is already an elder) ---
**Author:** ![gbrecht](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/gbrecht/32/3509_2.png) [@gbrecht](https://forum.numer.ai/u/gbrecht)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/7 "2023-10-11T12:25:24Z")
I accept my nomination (gBrecht on discord and account/model name, bigbertha only in forum) ---
**Author:** ![numerologist](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/numerologist/32/2824_2.png) [@numerologist](https://forum.numer.ai/u/numerologist)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/8 "2023-10-14T19:29:14Z")
I nominate: @gammarat - great recent write-up on genetic algorithms, has a lot of smart thoughts and ideas, would love to hear them more and more often @nyuton - not highly active recently (maybe because there is still [no incentive for high quality data science posts?](http://forum.numer.ai/t/proposal-bounty-for-high-quality-data-science-posts/3996) 😅), but I really liked older model ideas and project initiatives @surajp - can’t nominate an elder, sorry, but since this comment has transformed into a shoutouts post: love following your work on transformers, would love to read more on that. Also, I have yet to look into your signals work but kudos on that too! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gammarat](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/gammarat/32/3281_2.png) [@gammarat](https://forum.numer.ai/u/gammarat)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/9 "2023-10-14T23:47:07Z")
Thanks @numerologist, but I’m too old and erratic to contribute much on a regular basis… ---
**Author:** ![ia\_ai](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/ia_ai/32/3543_2.png) [@ia\_ai](https://forum.numer.ai/u/ia_ai)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/10 "2023-10-16T09:26:54Z")
Hey fam, thanks again for the nomination (this is the third time IIRC). I accept my nomination 🙏 At the same time, I would also like to nominate Peter (@studym8) who has been organizing local community events (even before we visited Toronto) and creating educational content (e.g. [YouTube videos](https://www.youtube.com/@studym813/videos) & [NumerWki](https://sturdy-hugger-07e.notion.site/d7ac1e054e534ca3bfdc795a56deda7a?v=6e47c569559747488c673a0be444b744)). Regardless of the election results, I will continue to work on [community events](https://github.com/councilofelders/meetups) and tools like my [dashboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/jofaichow/shiny-numerati). ---
**Author:** ![quantverse](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/quantverse/32/2022_2.png) [@quantverse](https://forum.numer.ai/u/quantverse)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/11 "2023-10-16T12:15:07Z")
> [@degerhan](#): > > quantverse I am honored to see my name here, but I have to respectfully decline. Too busy with other things now, I would not be able to promise the sufficient amount of time and effort I could allocate to this. ---
**Author:** ![restrading](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/restrading/32/2928_2.png) [@restrading](https://forum.numer.ai/u/restrading)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/12 "2023-10-16T15:57:47Z")
Thanks for the nomination, but I would like to respectfully decline due to conflict of interest and other commitments. ---
**Author:** ![jrai](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/jrai/32/3291_2.png) [@jrai](https://forum.numer.ai/u/jrai)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/13 "2023-10-17T00:46:04Z")
Thanks for the nomination, but I’ll respectfully decline. ---
**Author:** ![wigglemuse](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/wigglemuse/32/3094_2.png) [@wigglemuse](https://forum.numer.ai/u/wigglemuse)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/14 "2023-10-17T00:50:11Z")
_just waiting for somebody to disrespectfully decline_ ---
**Author:** ![nyuton](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/nyuton/32/687_2.png) [@nyuton](https://forum.numer.ai/u/nyuton)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2023, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/15 "2023-10-18T12:27:25Z")
Thanks for the nomination! I can’t accept it. I unstaked recently and I’m watching events from the sidelines… ---
**Author:** ![studym8](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/studym8/32/2904_2.png) [@studym8](https://forum.numer.ai/u/studym8)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/16 "2023-10-19T13:36:25Z")
Thanks for the nomination Joe! I accept. ---
**Author:** ![wigglemuse](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/wigglemuse/32/3094_2.png) [@wigglemuse](https://forum.numer.ai/u/wigglemuse)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/17 "2023-10-19T15:34:46Z")
Ok, I mulled it over. I accept. ---
**Author:** ![joakim](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/joakim/32/3442_2.png) [@joakim](https://forum.numer.ai/u/joakim)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/nominations-for-two-open-council-of-elders-seats-oct-10-through-oct-20-2023/6715/18 "2023-10-19T21:25:06Z")
Thanks for the nomination. I respectfully decline. I won’t have time to do it justice and I think there are many others who I think would do a much better job. Cheers.