[K3CAL] Open letter to the board

Fri Mar 4 18:42:33 EST 2016

THAT WAS GREAT  THANK YOU DAVID     AB3LE

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 6:33 PM, David Olenjack <dolenjack at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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