[K3CAL] Open letter to the board

[Eric Christensen]

On 03/04/2016 05:39 PM, David Olenjack wrote:
> As Bill stated above, it does not say in the bylaws section that you
> quoted that the president has the authority to disband a committee at
> his or her whim.

But the President DOES have the ability to appoint members to the
committee.  The Constitution, Article IX, Section 3, says that the term
of a committee [with the exception of the audit committee] shall not
extend beyond December 31st.

I don't believe the President disbanded any committee but rather
appointed new members which the bylaws say he can do.

> Again, not trying to be negative or derisive here.  I'm saying that I
> just don't think you know exactly what you're doing or how this stuff works.

How what stuff works, exactly?  Repeaters?  RF data networks?  Satellite
communications?  Tactical and strategic HF operations?  Wireless and
wired networking?  Whatever I didn't learn from eight years in the Navy
I learned from my time working for the State of North Carolina managing
conventional and trunking public safety voice and digital radio systems
or from the amateur radio community that I was a part of that had many
repeaters linked together to cover hundreds of square miles of area.  I
don't know everything but I don't have to as this club has a lot of
knowledge to go around.

I should point out that as chairman of the repeater committee, my
personal mission is to facilitate the committee meetings and help keep
things on track.  I'm relying on everyone on the committee, and people
not on the committee, to help pull everything together.  I want this to
be a team activity and not just a single person making changes to the
system as has been done in the past.  If I can make it easier for the
team to get the ideas out and work done by being the "project manager"
and handling all the paperwork and other overhead tasks then I've done
my job.  I'm not here to dictate or otherwise influence the committee.
Everyone has input and I encourage you, and everyone, to come to the
next committee meeting.  I submitted the notes from the last meeting to
the K3CAL list so they should also be available to review.

This is also supposed to be educational for everyone.  I don't want to
treat our repeaters as enterprise communication systems that are off
limits to our members.  I want people to ask questions and make
suggestions and work together to build our systems.  I've done enough
enterprise work where the only goal in life is to have uptime of 99.999%
(roughly 5 minutes per year).  Is uptime important to us?  Absolutely.
But I think education and getting other people involved is as important.

If you disagree with anything I've said lets discuss it.

73,
Eric WG3K