[amsat-bb] Candidate for BOD

[Bob Hammond]

Howie,

I'd like a bit more background, please.  What do you do in real life?
Employment, education, etc?

Bob W7OTJ

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:53 AM Howie DeFelice via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> My name is Howie DeFelice, callsign AB2S and I am currently a second
> alternate director in AMSAT. I am running to seek a term as a full member
> of the Board of Directors. I ran for the office of director last year
> because I felt AMSAT needed some new blood with some new ideas. As an
> alternate director I got to observe from the sidelines, at least as much as
> I could since regular board meetings were suspended for the first time in
> the organization's history. I’m afraid my worst fears were true and the
> leadership of AMSAT really is a “good ole boys club”.  When new people
> became part of the organization last year it went into hibernation mode.
> This effectively froze any possible new ideas that were different from the
> legacy members’ long held beliefs. The only way forward for the
> organization is to change the composition of the board of directors. I
> would like to outline some of the small things that can be done that could
> have a positive impact on the organization. More information is available
> on my web site www.ab2s.freeservers.com<http://www.ab2s.freeservers.com> .
>
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