[HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Board Director Elections - Tom
Bart Kus
me at bartk.us
Mon Jul 1 14:29:36 PDT 2019
Aye.
--Bart
On 7/1/2019 2:21 PM, Doug Kingston wrote:
> I vote Yes for Tom.
>
> -Doug-
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 2:05 PM Tom Hayward <tom at tomh.us
> <mailto:tom at tomh.us>> wrote:
>
> I am announcing my intention to serve on the HamWAN board of
> directors for the year following the conclusion of this vote. The
> voting period defined in the HamWAN constitution is 7 days,
> starting now. A reminder of the voting procedures can be found in
> the quoted email below.
>
> I have served as a Network Operator for HamWAN's Puget Sound
> network since 2013. I have contributed greatly to HamWAN software
> development: https://github.com/HamWAN. And I have taken an active
> role in new site research, design, and installation.
>
> Tom KD7LXL
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 8:37 PM Nigel Vander Houwen
> <nigel at nigelvh.com <mailto:nigel at nigelvh.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> It’s been a year since our current board members were elected,
> so it’s time for new elections.
>
> As a quick recap for folks that haven’t been around, or need a
> reminder:
>
> * Board member positions last for one year.
> * Any supporting member is eligible to vote for board members.
> * Any supporting member is eligible to run for a position on
> the board.
> * There is no limit on the number of board members, so if
> you want to run and participate, you’re not taking a spot
> away from anyone else.
> o There is a minimum number of 3 board members.
> * Supporting members are those who have contributed at the
> Basic level ($20/mo) (or more) for the last 6 months.
> * Voting is open for 7 days.
> * Each board member is a separate “election”, IE you don’t
> have to choose one person to vote for, you choose Yay or
> Nay for all individuals.
> * Please respond to the list with your votes, the list
> serves as our public record.
>
>
> Here’s our current list of supporting members (the folks who
> are eligible to vote on directors, or run for director
> themselves) (Thank you Cory for pulling this together):
>
> * Bart Kus
> * Bob Edmiston
> * Carl Leon
> * Cory Johnson
> * David Giuliani
> * Doug Kingston
> * David Yost
> * Dylan Ambauen
> * Ian Gallagher
> * Jim Hudspeth
> * Kenny Richards
> * Marc Lacy
> * Mark Sheppard
> * Mikel Shirley
> * Nick Hall
> * Nigel Vander Houwen
> * Robert Salsgiver
> * Ronald Zuber
> * Ryan Cukierman
> * Ryan Turner
> * Terence Chan
> * Tom Hayward
> * Randy Neals
>
> I’d like to thank everyone for contributing to the project,
> and helping us grow. We’ve seen a handful of new members added
> this year, in addition to quite a few new non-member
> users/orgs. This speaks greatly to the massive efforts of a
> number of folks in the project doing installs, giving
> presentations, and talking about HamWAN.
>
> We’ve seen a lot of great progress over the past year, not to
> mention a number of new users on the network. Here’s a small
> sampling of some of the things accomplished over the past year.
>
> * Quite a handful of new Network Operations folks have been
> brought on, and are quickly tackling issues and making
> improvements. Thanks team!
> * A couple visits to our Capitol Park site saw new backbone
> links installed, sector upgrades, and additional batteries
> in case of power outage.
> * Phone adoption has been taking off considerably with ACS
> and other emergency services folks on board.
> * Gear installed at Buck
> * Gear installed at Beacon Hill
> * Gear installed at Larch
> * Work at the Seattle EOC
> * Upgrade work at Snohomish County DEM
> * Upgrade work at Haystack
> * Upgrade and repair work at Gold
> * New edge router at FMT as a partial replacement for
> Tukwila, which gives us internet facing redundancy
> * Aiming visit to Baw Faw
> * Probably a bunch more that I forgot or managed to scroll
> past in my emails.
>
>
> All of these things and more have been the results of massive
> efforts of a whole lot of people this year. Thanks to every
> one of you for making this happen. HamWAN is entirely
> volunteer driven which makes such an enormous undertaking even
> more remarkable. Whether your contribution was in time onsite
> tightening bolts, or with a few dollars that helps us buy new
> modems and dishes, it’s all been valued. Thank you.
>
> So, to the final point. It’s time to vote again on the board
> directors. For the past year Bart Kus, Cory Johnson, Rob
> Salsgiver, Doug Kingston, and myself have acted as the board
> for HamWAN. I have appreciated their work over the past year,
> and if they choose, I hope to continue doing so this year.
>
> Cory Johnson - Cory has graciously handled HamWAN’s financial
> and legal filings and reports. I’m incredibly grateful for his
> efforts. Thank you Cory!
>
> Bart Kus - Bart continues to put enormous effort into the
> physical aspects of the network, particularly in his gracious
> hosting of our site at Haystack, some software projects, as
> well as acting as an administrator for the Puget Sound network
> day to day. Thank you Bart!
>
> Rob Salsgiver - Rob has been a significant driver in terms of
> organizing what work needs to be done in the network, and
> making sure it gets taken care of. In addition to that, he has
> been coming up to speed as a Network Operations member, and
> has been tackling a number of issues.
>
> Doug Kingston - Doug has been part of a number of big wins for
> the network over the past year, both in terms of new sites, as
> well as getting projects done and maintaining existing ones.
> He has additionally been working on Network Operations and has
> jumped in to tackle issues that the rest of the team hadn’t
> been able to get to.
>
> Nigel Vander Houwen - (me) I handle much of our contract work,
> and record keeping around technical aspects like LoAs, I serve
> as a day to day network administrator, and have helped deploy
> and maintain some of the on-network services, occasionally I
> manage to make a site visit to help out, and I handle things
> like the email you’re reading now.
>
> I have spoken with Bart, Rob, and Doug with regards to serving
> on the board again this upcoming year. Rob and Doug have
> graciously offered to continue serving. Bart has chosen to
> step away from the Board work and focus on the other aspects
> of HamWAN and I look forward to our continued work.
>
> For anyone who wishes to run for the board, please send an
> email to the mailing list announcing your intention to run
> (You’ll see mine momentarily as an example). The voting period
> on your election will end 7 days after your announcement.
> Duties are not time intensive, and mostly consist of being
> available for occasional calls to approve expenses, and
> assisting HamWAN in whichever ways your time and/or
> skills/knowledge allow.
>
> Thank you all for reading this rather long email, and I hope
> to work with you all here in this next year.
>
> Nigel Vander Houwen
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