[amsat-bb] Who Let THIS Info Out?

[Michelle Thompson]

Honestly, it's been extremely hard to take advantage of the publications
and official procedures from the "inside".

Just speaking for myself, the minutes of the meetings that show what I've
done as an individual for the organization haven't been published because
they haven't been approved.

Because we never had another board meeting, there's no way the earlier
minutes can be published. They are frozen in time.

Meanwhile, Officers and the majority Directors congratulate themselves
publicly on all activity.

A very few people control all of the social media, website content, and
column content in the AMSAT Journal.

I moved (and it was approved) for a bylaws committee to fix the things that
Bruce is talking about. There are several election issues, with electronic
voting roadblocks being a big one.

A bylaws committee is a big deal. It was a priority for Clayton Coleman. He
and I talked about it on the phone twice. I committed to help, and I did. I
am disappointed at the lack of follow through. The bylaws committee has yet
to meet. They had plenty of time. The men selected for this job are
qualified and can deliver good results. We should have been able to have
this committee meet, have their recommendations incorporated into the
bylaws, and offer electronic voting by 2020. Unlike other things we do,
this is not rocket science.

I moved (and it was approved) for AMSAT to formally support the ARISS AREx
project. This was a very high priority item for AREx. There were three
levels of support. The first was a very simple expression of "official
support" of the project. Publicly stating that the project was good for
amateur radio and should happen. That happened due to this motion.

The regulatory work that I've done is completely invisible to the
membership at this point, primarily because detailed minutes for the
members cannot be published without regular board meetings.

Clayton appointed me to lead very important ITAR/EAR regulatory work. That
would have also been in the minutes that the membership is prevented from
seeing.

We have everything we need to fix several decades of painful regulatory
bullshit. We have highly competent consultants, a motivated and competent
volunteer lead, and people with the technical writing chops to produce a
great policy document. We can't even get a board meeting to review the
work.

Not having any board meetings for an entire year means these things stay
invisible.

If you vote for Paul, Bruce, or Mark, then you will get another year of
this exact same thing.

-Michelle W5NYV




On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 12:32 AM Bruce Perens via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> And he shouldn't have had to. The rules were intended to allow all
> candidates access to AMSAT's publications for campaigning, which has never
> worked, and it's discriminatory because the incumbents get those
> publications as their pulpit year-round. And a postal mail list is provided
> to them because the rules were written in 1969.
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 10:31 PM Clint Bradford via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
> > I was not “offended” not do I want to “un-subscribe” from your email
> > messages.
> >
> > I just though tit tedious to perform the work you did on this …
> >
> > Clint K6LCS
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Aug 3, 2020, at 4:33 PM, Howie DeFelice <howied231 at hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Clint,
> > >
> > > Since I am responsible for this, let me answer that question. ...
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