[amsat-bb] Members Please Read

[Michelle Thompson]

ORI is an AMSAT Member Society. Posting here is appropriate.

All work done is provided free of charge and directly benefits AMSAT.

ORI doesn't sell memberships. It's a research institute. There's no
competition for members because the only members are the board.

This is not uncommon in R&D.

Other AMSAT board members and officers work in the satellite industry, work
for NASA or a contractor, work for universities with satellite programs,
are on space advisory boards, or are presidents or directors of independent
amateur satellite organizations.

Like ARISS USA.
And Project Oscar.

If everyone that was active enough in amateur satellite to wear multiple
hats stepped down, we'd have a very very small leadership team in AMSAT.

Being disgusted by good news and activity seems weird to me. Calling honest
good news that was joyfully shared "garbage" is disappointing to read.

I apologize in advance because there will be more of it in the future.

-Michelle W5NYV


On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 14:22 Joseph Armbruster via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> Brad,
>
> What transparency and progress has been brought to the organization
> from the members that you speak of?  Specifically?  It appears that
> since they were voted in, everyone in the organization is now walking
> on egg-shells. The BB is now plastered with emails asking which words
> mean what feelings, name calling and chasing after the organization
> using whatever legal means the wizards-of-smart can conjure up all in
> the name of almighty, all-righeous, '''transparency'''. It all seems
> rather insincere and unproductive to me.  People like this should do
> the organization a favor, and leave, run their own competing
> organization and take whatever people and dollars happen to follow
> them.
>
> I would honestly like to return to the ARISSat-1 days, where it was
> just full-speed-ahead engineering and not all this talk all about
> 'saving AMSAT' and ORI garbage.  All this ORI promotion on the BB, is
> absolute garbage.  No rational AMSAT member should be OK with that,
> especially from an AMSAT BOD member.  ORI is a separate, competing
> organization and their bylaws are..... telling.  If AMSATs bylaws were
> ever amended to be anything like those, you can kiss your membership
> goodbye, ref: https://openresearch.institute/organization-documents.
> Their bylaws literally say "Membership shall consist of the Board of
> Directors.".  Quite an Open organization, indeed!
>
> But I digress... The more of these kinds of people you vote in, the
> more the organization is going to be hurt, guaranteed. Because not
> only is nothing going to get done, obviously some people don't want to
> work with them for whatever-reasons and THAT actually is important.
> And, the reasons are important too.  Have you wondered why...?  I do!
> As a small business owner, when I hear such-and-such doesn't want to
> work with so-and-so, I immediately want to ask "What happened"?  From
> what the email traffic looks like, it seems like you may have to worry
> about legal action for everything you say or do around them or, maybe
> there was some pre-election history that most of the people that voted
> for them, didn't know about.  I have no clue, but this all does make
> me wonder.
>
> Either way, it seems like the state of things right now is Much Worst
> than it was prior-to the last election, so... Not sure why anyone
> would want more of this.  For me, the socio-political environment is
> just as important as the engi-nerding portion..  At the very least,
> BOD members need to be promoting the organization they are on the
> board of and noone should have to worry about legal retaliation over
> every little thing.
>
> Joseph Armbruster
> KJ4JIO
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 3:58 PM Brad Smith via AMSAT-BB
> <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> >
> > If you care about the AMSAT organization continuing to help hams in
> space communications, please read and reread Patrick's and Michelle's
> explanations.  They layout exactly what happened. Now we learn that the
> expenditure is over 16k. That is 363 memberships, if this retired
> engineer's math is correct. This is money wasted to beat down two members
> who want transparency and progress. This was not right. Our money was
> wasted! I am anxious for the election.
> >
> > Again, I ask that members do not resign over this. That helps nobody and
> hurts out hobby, which has already taken a huge hit. Solve this with your
> voting privilege.
> >
> > 73 Brad KC9UQR
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