Brad,
What transparency and progress has been brought to the organization from the members that you speak of? Specifically? It appears that since they were voted in, everyone in the organization is now walking on egg-shells. The BB is now plastered with emails asking which words mean what feelings, name calling and chasing after the organization using whatever legal means the wizards-of-smart can conjure up all in the name of almighty, all-righeous, '''transparency'''. It all seems rather insincere and unproductive to me. People like this should do the organization a favor, and leave, run their own competing organization and take whatever people and dollars happen to follow them.
I would honestly like to return to the ARISSat-1 days, where it was just full-speed-ahead engineering and not all this talk all about 'saving AMSAT' and ORI garbage. All this ORI promotion on the BB, is absolute garbage. No rational AMSAT member should be OK with that, especially from an AMSAT BOD member. ORI is a separate, competing organization and their bylaws are..... telling. If AMSATs bylaws were ever amended to be anything like those, you can kiss your membership goodbye, ref: https://openresearch.institute/organization-documents. Their bylaws literally say "Membership shall consist of the Board of Directors.". Quite an Open organization, indeed!
But I digress... The more of these kinds of people you vote in, the more the organization is going to be hurt, guaranteed. Because not only is nothing going to get done, obviously some people don't want to work with them for whatever-reasons and THAT actually is important. And, the reasons are important too. Have you wondered why...? I do! As a small business owner, when I hear such-and-such doesn't want to work with so-and-so, I immediately want to ask "What happened"? From what the email traffic looks like, it seems like you may have to worry about legal action for everything you say or do around them or, maybe there was some pre-election history that most of the people that voted for them, didn't know about. I have no clue, but this all does make me wonder.
Either way, it seems like the state of things right now is Much Worst than it was prior-to the last election, so... Not sure why anyone would want more of this. For me, the socio-political environment is just as important as the engi-nerding portion.. At the very least, BOD members need to be promoting the organization they are on the board of and noone should have to worry about legal retaliation over every little thing.
Joseph Armbruster KJ4JIO
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 3:58 PM Brad Smith via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
If you care about the AMSAT organization continuing to help hams in space communications, please read and reread Patrick's and Michelle's explanations. They layout exactly what happened. Now we learn that the expenditure is over 16k. That is 363 memberships, if this retired engineer's math is correct. This is money wasted to beat down two members who want transparency and progress. This was not right. Our money was wasted! I am anxious for the election.
Again, I ask that members do not resign over this. That helps nobody and hurts out hobby, which has already taken a huge hit. Solve this with your voting privilege.
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