You might want to give some more consideration to a few points here, given how "turf" oriented some aspects of amateur radio (and other organizations) can become. Specifics: Membership is "automatic" to everyone. This should have some entrance criteria of some kind. Not sure what - having a ham license isn't necessarily a better qualifier, and may screen out some valuable folks. Board elections - need to rotate so that one board member comes up each year. The "worst case" scenario you are trying to prevent is a pocket of malcontents coming in with a flood of new members and taking over the board and changing the organization to what they want. Seems extreme but I've seen it. Rotating one each year at least buys time if you do have a group of malcontents to work things out. Our club has 4 officers (pres, vp, secretary, treasurer) that are elected each year, with the Pres and VP allowed to serve 2 consecutive terms. They must be off the board for 1 year before being re-elected to (that) post. We also have 3 director positions that rotate - 1 each year and are elected by membership. Rounding out the group is the immediate past president and a presidentially appointed trustee - the trustee serves continuously until they resign or are removed or pass on. 9 is the total which is too many for this probably, but it demonstrates the idea of retaining a continuity of leadership and preventing absolute chaos if part of the group goes psycho. Elections - will work for now, but as the organization grows you will find you want more time to push the paper of the election process. Director removal - at 3 board members, you will never reach the 75% benchmark to remove one. This only works with 4 or more. PDF of the bylaws of the Snohomish County Hams Club is attached as a reference. It's not perfect, but it does a pretty good job. Rob From: PSDR [mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org] On Behalf Of Bart Kus Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 9:00 PM To: Puget Sound Data Ring Subject: Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Weekly Board & Dev Team Meeting Good call, thanks for the poke. I would have forgotten 1) The board will vote on the proposed HamWAN Constitution (attached). 2) If Ben is not airborne, he will present details of insurance coverage policy and bylaws research / writing. I believe the constitution leaves a few points to be defined in a bylaws document, although there is no procedural difference in updating either after the constitution is accepted. 3) The board will vote on incurring debt to bring the Cougar Mtn site online. 4) Curt will be asked to head up publicity / marketing / recruitment / use-case research efforts. Flea Market was a near miss, we need someone working in this area. The last point about use-case research is especially important. I would like the engineering work to enable some powerful scenarios for the network's users, but there is no clear picture of what network users want to do since this kind of network doesn't exist yet. Engineering can take guesses, but it'd be good to hear from users too. Talk to EOCs, ARES, RACES, regular digital hams, etc. 5) Flea Market preparedness discussion. What are we missing and who's coming? The 10ft Rohn 25 section is kind of massive. 6) Discussion of open items and who wants to take on what. See the website for open items. I would say the focus right now is on getting things working well enough to serve @ the Flea Market, @ MHDC and on Cougar. So RF problem space is front and center right now. If you can't do RF work directly, perhaps you can help it along by implementing 3D radiation pattern measurement software and figuring out how to publish the results to the web. I'll try to send an update on the RF work I've been doing the last 2 days which I haven't published yet. --Bart On 2/11/2013 8:08 PM, Rob Salsgiver wrote: Agenda? <g> Tag, you're it. Rob From: PSDR [mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org] On Behalf Of Bart Kus Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 10:30 PM To: psdr@hamwan.org; board@hamwan.org Subject: [HamWAN PSDR] Weekly Board & Dev Team Meeting Hello, In order to better coordinate the various efforts under way right now, HamWAN will begin holding weekly meetings. Since it's important to eat our own dog food, these meetings will be held using communication technology that can easily be used on HamWAN without the Internet. Specifically, text + voice chat facilities will be provided by the Mumble <http://mumble.sourceforge.net/> software package, which is cross-platform. All Board & Dev Team members are required to join, but the meeting is not exclusive, and the invitation is extended to anyone who is interested. Meeting Details How Mumble <http://mumble.sourceforge.net/> voice + text chat software Where Connect to server "BartK.us" When Tuesdays @ 7:00PM PST The inaugural meeting will take place on Feb 12th, 2013. I'll try to send out an agenda the day before. See you all there! --Bart _______________________________________________ PSDR mailing list PSDR@hamwan.org http://mail.hamwan.org/mailman/listinfo/psdr_hamwan.org