[K3CAL] Open letter to the board

Fri Mar 4 18:33:56 EST 2016

Well first of all, Shipmate, I could care less about your Navy experience
or your experience working for this or that state government.  My 17 years
in the Navy taught me that leadership has nothing to do with any of the
technical know-how you keep prattling on about.  Your expertise and/or
knowledge of this or that mean nothing because the bottom line is that you
(and by you I mean the Board) have a growing number of people who fall
under one of the three categories:
1. People who have made accusations against one or more members of the
board (i.e. conflicts of interest, abuse of or overstepping authority,
etc..)
2. People (like me) who are trying (and miserably failing, I might add) to
mediate the two sides and help to bring the conflict to some kind of
resolution, and
3. People who are so tired of the drama and just want to sell the
equipment, throw in the towel, and call it a day.

Leadership is responsible not *for* the organization, but *to* the
organization.  You keep talking about what "you" know, or what "you" are
trying to do.  "You" aren't important in this issue.  What is important is
the fact that under (in part) your leadership, this organization is having
serious issues.  This is the problem.  It's not what you do or do not know
about repeaters or what you were doing behind legions of armed Marines
during 9/11.  It matters that everything is falling apart, and what is
supposed to be a fun hobby is turning into something that people are ready
to just walk away from.

You can wave your resume around all you want.  It doesn't change the fact
that the biscuits are burning and you can't seem to find the oven mitts...

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Eric Christensen <eric at christensenplace.us>
wrote:

> 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
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