News for The GDL Alliance, Founding and Charter Members

Volume 3 – Nov. 6, 2000

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Elections are coming up for the GDL Alliance and the deadline for nominations is tomorrow. Looking forward to hearing from everyone.

Kimon G. Onuma
President Pro Temp, GDL Alliance

[1] German Language Page

Our Charter Member, Karl-Heinz Pfefferer of Germany, has offered to translate The GDL Alliance pages into German. The first version is up on the web right now. Many thanks.  We have a volunteer for French but are still looking for the other languages of the world.

[2] Membership Numbers

We are at 103 members.

[3] Call for Nominations

We have nominations for 26 people so far. The names to date are listed below. If you sent in a nomination please check to make sure your names are in here.  Elections will be starting a few days on the web site and will last for one week.

There is still one more day to place nominations at: http://www.GDLalliance.com for instructions.

Here are the names so far:

Payman AbolfathiGrondorf Field Black Co.USAJoeBayerUSASezen Beserler Vermillion/Beserler USAGregBlunierIntegrated Computer ResourcesUSA MarkChristopherUSA DavidCorreia ObjectsOnline USA Theo De Clerk Theometric Designs, New Zealand Laurent GodelLaurent GodelSpain DavidGublerarchimedia schweiz agSwitzerland WillemLangelaanLangelaan Architect Canada RexMaximilian Maximilian Architectural Technology ServicesUSA NeilMcCann DIMENSIONS Design Group, Inc.USA LauriMelvasaloM.A.D. OyFinlandImre Molnár Graphisoft R&D Rt. Hungary David Nicholson-ColeObject FactoryUK Kimon Onuma Onuma/Webscape USA XavierRuchti IDCSwitzerland Woody Schempp CADD Works USA OlegShmidtRussiaTom Simmons ArchVista USA John StebbinsDigital VisionUSA Pal Szabo GSCNE Inc.Canada TiborSzolnoki Graphisoft HungaryProf. Kollhoff Urs Esposito ETH (federal institut of technology) Switzerland Duane Valencia Visual Frontiers USA SeveriVirolainen M.A.D. OyFinland

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[6] Contact us

If you have any questions or comments about The GDL Alliance please contact us:

Officers, (forming the Executive Committee pro temp until elections in Jan 2001):

President: Kimon Onuma – GDLalliance@onuma.com
Vice President: Duane Valencia - VFrontiers@aol.com
GDL Evangelist: David Nicholson-Cole - davidnc@innotts.co.uk
Director of Education: John Stebbins -- john@digitalvis.com