Failure to present papers or other evidence of progress at the symposium will send a pretty clear message to the membership that these projects are well and truly dead. Is that what we want to do?
Dan Schultz N8FGV
------ Original Message ------ Received: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:02:08 PM EDT From: "Frank Brickle" brickle@pobox.com To: "Daniel Schultz" n8fgv@usa.netCc: eagle@amsat.org Subject: [eagle] Re: 2008 Symposium deadline
Dan --
Understand that I mean nothing controversial by saying this, but it's very unclear what the status of the Eagle and/or Intelsat projects *is*. There's potentially a lot to say, but hard to know whether any of it is pertinent
at
this point.
I was prepared to deliver a paper on AMSAT-specific aspects of the same topic (Delay Tolerant Networking) that I wrote up for DCC. The gist of the paper was an outline of the specific implementation of a comprehensive text-messaging service for Eagle. Given the current level of uncertainty even about *who* the teams are, and the ambient level of acrimony in the membership, it's questionable whether the time is worth spending.
73 Frank AB2KT