[HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Board Elections

Thu Feb 23 12:34:28 PST 2017

My votes are the following:

Cory: Yay
Ryan: Yay
Bart: Yay
Nigel: Yay 73 from Dan at K7MM
Secretary/TreasurerWest Sound Amateur Radio Club, N7IGwww.n7ig.org  | www.wsarc.club 2336 Steamboat Loop EPort Orchard, WA  98366
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      From: Bart Kus <me at bartk.us>
 To: psdr at hamwan.org 
 Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 12:11 PM
 Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Board Elections

My votes are:

Cory: Yay
Ryan: Yay
Bart: Yay
Nigel: Yay

--Bart

On 2/23/2017 8:43 AM, Cliff Gurlen wrote:
> I vote as follows:
>
> Cory: Yay
> Ryan: Yay
> Bart: Yay
> Nigel: Yay
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Nigel Vander Houwen <nigel at nigelvh.com> wrote:
>> Apologies, minor correction: Supporting members are those who have
>> contributed at the Basic level for *6* months, not 12. The list remains the
>> same, as Cory gathered it using the proper criteria. Thanks Cory!
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Nigel
>>
>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 20:59, Nigel Vander Houwen <nigel at nigelvh.com> wrote:
>>
>> As a supporting member, I will vote as follows:
>>
>> Cory: Yay
>> Ryan: Yay
>> Bart: Yay
>> Nigel: Yay
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nigel
>>
>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 20:58, Nigel Vander Houwen <nigel at nigelvh.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> It’s been a year since our current board members were approved, so it’s time
>> to revisit!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 12 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
>> records.
>>
>>
>> Our current list of supporting members is as follows (the folks who are
>> eligible to vote):
>>
>> Robert Salsgiver
>> Benjamin Krueger
>> Nigel Vander Houwen
>> Ryan Turner
>> Bartlomiej Kus
>> Daniel Ransom
>> Allen Johnson
>> Clifton Gurlen
>> Ian Finder
>> Ryan Spott
>> Mike Shirley
>> Terence Chan
>> Tim Osburn
>> Cory Johnson
>>
>> In addition, we have a few folks that have made one time donations, or
>> haven’t been on a recurring donation long enough to be a supporting member.
>>
>> Jim Hudspeth
>> Francis Haugen
>> David Yost
>> Nick Austin
>>
>> I’d like to thank all of the above folks for supporting HamWAN and our
>> ability to purchase gear to expand the network and provide services to
>> users. We’ve been very fortunate in our ability to keep overhead low, so we
>> can put as much as possible into things that directly improve the network.
>>
>> We’ve seen the last year bring a pile of great progress:
>>
>> A number of new Open Peering Policy users have joined us, using our network
>> infrastructure to announce their 44-net networks to the internet.
>> Capitol Peak was approved and brought online.
>> Additional hardware for Gold was approved and brought online.
>> We added a high resolution PTZ camera at our Baldi site with generous
>> donations specifically for the camera.
>> Rob has done some fantastic work bringing some hospitals online.
>> We worked with our friends in Victoria BC to bring the Triangle site online
>> We underwent a routine IRS audit that found no problems, and I’d really love
>> to thank Cory for his efforts on this, and hope for his continued
>> involvement on the board.
>> We rebuilt the HamWAN.org website from scratch, Bart and Tom put a huge
>> amount of effort into this. Thanks guys!
>> Our sister networks in Memphis and Tampa have both grown.
>> We purchased our own ASN to improve our ability to help our sister networks
>> get online via BGP, and released the borrowed one we had been using back to
>> Threshold Communications, which had been generously letting us use it. They
>> continue to support our Westin edge router, which we appreciate greatly.
>> We purchased a number of locking equipment racks to help us install our gear
>> securely at sites.
>> We’ve purchased extra batteries to extend the runtime in case of a power
>> outage at Baldi (yet to be installed).
>> We’ve purchased and replaced a few failing modems over the year as well.
>> We’ve had some repeaters get connected this year, and we’ve recently added
>> an on-network DMR C-Bridge to support their efforts.
>>
>>
>> As you can see, there’s a lot of forward progress over the last year, and
>> there’s no end in sight.
>>
>> Which brings me to the bit about actually electing board members. For the
>> last year, Bart Kus, Cory Johnson, Ryan Turner, and myself have acted as the
>> board for HamWAN. I’ve confirmed with each of them that they’re willing to
>> serve again this year if elected, so we’ll combine the votes for all four in
>> one email thread.
>>
>> Cory Johnson - Cory has graciously handled HamWAN’s financial and legal
>> filings and reports. I’m incredibly grateful for his efforts in general, and
>> especially this year after completing our IRS audit. Thank you Cory!
>>
>> Ryan Turner - Ryan heads our sister network in Memphis, and has put a lot of
>> effort into our automation, and outreach. Thank you Ryan!
>>
>> Bart Kus - Bart continues to put enormous effort into the physical aspects
>> of the network, acquiring new sites, installing and maintaining them, as
>> well as some software projects, as well as acting as an administrator for
>> the Puget Sound network day to day. Thank you Bart!
>>
>> 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 with Bart to get things
>> done, and I handle things like the email you’re reading now.
>>
>> Voting is open for Cory, Ryan, Bart, and myself for 7 days, after which the
>> final results will be decided by the majority of votes cast.
>>
>> If any of the supporting members from above would like to participate on the
>> board, please announce your intention on this list, and your 7 day voting
>> period 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 other ways your time
>> and/or skills/knowledge allow.
>>
>> Thank you all for reading this rather long email, and hope to serve for
>> another great year with HamWAN.
>>
>> Nigel Vander Houwen
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