[HamWAN PSDR] HamWAN Board Director Elections

[Nigel Vander Houwen]

Hello Everyone,

It is once again time for our annual elections for the HamWAN Board of Directors. Here’s a quick recap of the main points for those that need a refresher.

Board member positions last for one year.
Any Supporting Member is eligible to vote for board members.
Any Supporting Member is eligigle to run for a position on the board.
There is no limit on the number of board members. If you feel you would be valuable, you’re not taking a seat away from someone else.
There is a minimum of 3 board members required by the constitution.
Each board member is a separate election. IE you don’t have to choose only one person to vote for, you choose Yea or Nay for all individuals.
Please respond to the list here with your votes. This serves as our public record.
We do not have a concept of nominations. The individual themselves must express intent to run for a board position.

In the above, we make use of the term Supporting Member, this is a specifically defined criteria in the constitution, which are individuals who have contributed at the Basic Level ($20/mo or more) for at least the last 6 months. Both the time and financial criteria must be met to count. There have been a couple instances of employer matching or other donations this year that we weren’t able to attribute a source to, so if you feel that you’ve been missed in this list, I apologize. Please reach out and we’ll get it sorted. The current list of Supporting Members is:

Bart Kus
Bob Edmiston
Burt Guillot
Carl Leon
Casey R Hickerson
Chuck Dorsett
Cory Johnson
Dana Hanford
David Giuliani
David Yost
Doug Kingston
Dylan Ambauen
Edward Cukierman
Ian Gallagher
John C Miller
Kenneth Koster
Kenneth Richards
Marc Lacy
Nick Austin
Nigel Vander Houwen
Robert Salsgiver
Robert Sampson
Ronald Zuber
Ryan Turner
Terence Chan
Tim Osburn
Tom Hayward
Warren Churchward
West Seattle ARC

I would like to thank everyone, Supporting Members and not, for your contributions to the project. 2020 was a challenging year for everyone, and HamWAN was able to keep going, and make some amount of safe progress. Likewise so far in 2021 we’ve faced some challenges at some of our sites, but thanks to a bunch of work by folks both inside and outside the HamWAN org directly, we’re happy to be moving forward, with some potential growth into new sites we could look forward to.

As is my usual procedure, I try to ask the existing board members if they’d like to continue to serve if elected, and lump us together to minimize email threads. Unfortunately due to timing I wasn’t able to confirm everyone ahead of time. I was able to confirm Cory, and will include him in my thread. I would very much encourage Tom, Bart, Rob, and Doug to continue, and want to thank all of my fellow board members for their efforts in support of HamWAN over the last year.

For anyone else who wishes to run for the board, please send an email here to the mailing list announcing your intention to run. 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 votes to approve expenses or discuss larger organizational decisions. It is encouraged to write a small blurb about yourself and what you would like HamWAN to do, and what you bring to the table, so that folks who aren’t immediately familiar with your name can have an idea on who they’re voting for.

Thank you all for reading this rather long email, and I hope to continue working with everyone in this next year.

Nigel Vander Houwen
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