[amsat-bb] Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message

[Michelle Thompson]

It is not fair to say "you guys are AMSAT" (only guys?), when so many of us
for so long have proposed things to officers that are ignored or rejected
without cause.

Asking the customer to fix the problem means that current leadership
doesn't know what to do.

Some of us have been prevented from even having access to communications.

Patrick Stoddard and I were denied access to the BoD email archive for many
months.

With no board meetings, by definition there is no direction or oversight
for IT. It's run completely by officers without any input from anyone
elected by the membership.

Joe KM1P is a hero. He has served and produced excellent work, under trying
conditions, for a long time. He does this out of generosity and does this
with care.

So, yes, we should speak up for what we want and yes, "we are AMSAT".

Please speak up. But also vote for a functional board that will help
volunteers like Joe have an easier job, support what needs to be done to
modernize AMSAT-BB, and will have his back.

Volunteers like Joe will get that from Patrick and myself. We need more on
the board to make this happen.

Please consider voting for Bob McGwier, Howie DeFelice, and Jeff Johns.

Thank you,

-Michelle W5NYV




On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:04 AM Joseph B. Fitzgerald via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

>
> Ken,  VA7KBM wrote:
> >... AMSAT should consider a more modern email list system.
>
> Presently the IT crew is working on migrating our servers off the existing
> Linux distribution which goes end-of-life in November to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
>   This will result in a change to GNU Mailman 3.0 ... more modern but not
> exactly a quantum leap.   Now would be a great time for a fleshed out
> proposal for something else since it would be hard on the users to switch
> again in another year or whatever.   I have looked at groups.io a little
> bit in the past, and it seems to be run by "good guys".    Don't wait for
> "AMSAT" to consider alternatives, you guys are AMSAT, so put together a
> good proposal and convince people.
>
> > ... It's generally not a good idea
> >for most small organizations to run their own email servers these days -
> >too much security and technical overhead, and who needs that?
>
> I surely don't need that and I am one of they guys that directly deals
> with that overhead.   That being said, an issue that trips me up every time
> I look at having someone else run things is the e-mail alias service we
> provide to anyone with a callsign.    We have somewhere around 16,000 users
> of that service and I know of no economically viable way to do that except
> on our own servers.
>
> de KM1P Joe
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