[PSDR] HamWAN Development Team

[Bart Kus]

Hello,

HamWAN needs an official development team to solve many of the tough 
problems facing us.  Membership in this team obligates you to taking on 
specific development tasks with specific deadlines, and attending a 
weekly virtual progress discussion meeting.  Your name will go on the 
HamWAN website as an official developer, along with a description of 
your areas of expertise and contact information (snazzy @hamwan.org 
address!).

General criteria are:

1) A dedication to perfection.  Lazy engineering is detrimental in the 
long term.  The nature of networks makes them not-so-easy to patch once 
they've grown.  Just look at IPv6 and how long that's taken to deploy on 
the Internet.  We need to get many of the important things right at the 
outset.
2) A commitment to continuous effort.  Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% 
perspiration after all.
3) An ability to work with others.  This means you're capable of hearing 
someone's opinion of why you're wrong without holding a grudge or ill 
feelings. It also means you can tactfully convey your own negative 
opinions of others' work without provoking strife. This does not mean 
you have to agree with the opinions of others about why you're wrong, 
nor does it mean they have to follow your advice either.  Disagreements 
on direction will be settled by benevolent dictatorship.  I don't want 
to deadlock on committee. Often times any decision is better than inaction.

Development team work is NOT restricted to engineering!  Members are 
also needed for working on promotion, fund raising, partnerships and 
recruiting.  These tasks are just as crucial as the engineering work itself.

So, if you think you would like to dedicate a part of your life to 
launching HamWAN and setting the next decade of ham radio into motion, 
email board at hamwan.org with:

1) Your name, callsign (if you have one), and phone #s
2) A description of your skills (things you think you can do)
3) Your resume (things you've been paid to do)
4) Pointers to past projects (things you have proven you can do, but may 
or may not have been paid for)
5) What kind of work you'd be interested in doing

Look at the hamwan.org site index (main page) to see the problem areas 
being currently addressed.  Sadly much of the non-engineering work is 
not indexed yet, but this will change shortly.

--Bart