Hello,
HamWAN needs an official development team to solve many of the tough
problems facing us. Membership in this team obligates you to taking on
specific development tasks with specific deadlines, and attending a
weekly virtual progress discussion meeting. Your name will go on the
HamWAN website as an official developer, along with a description of
your areas of expertise and contact information (snazzy @hamwan.org
address!).
General criteria are:
1) A dedication to perfection. Lazy engineering is detrimental in the
long term. The nature of networks makes them not-so-easy to patch once
they've grown. Just look at IPv6 and how long that's taken to deploy on
the Internet. We need to get many of the important things right at the
outset.
2) A commitment to continuous effort. Genius is 1% inspiration and 99%
perspiration after all.
3) An ability to work with others. This means you're capable of hearing
someone's opinion of why you're wrong without holding a grudge or ill
feelings. It also means you can tactfully convey your own negative
opinions of others' work without provoking strife. This does not mean
you have to agree with the opinions of others about why you're wrong,
nor does it mean they have to follow your advice either. Disagreements
on direction will be settled by benevolent dictatorship. I don't want
to deadlock on committee. Often times any decision is better than inaction.
Development team work is NOT restricted to engineering! Members are
also needed for working on promotion, fund raising, partnerships and
recruiting. These tasks are just as crucial as the engineering work itself.
So, if you think you would like to dedicate a part of your life to
launching HamWAN and setting the next decade of ham radio into motion,
email board(a)hamwan.org with:
1) Your name, callsign (if you have one), and phone #s
2) A description of your skills (things you think you can do)
3) Your resume (things you've been paid to do)
4) Pointers to past projects (things you have proven you can do, but may
or may not have been paid for)
5) What kind of work you'd be interested in doing
Look at the hamwan.org site index (main page) to see the problem areas
being currently addressed. Sadly much of the non-engineering work is
not indexed yet, but this will change shortly.
--Bart
