<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Subhro,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I figured it was a joke, but I used the opportunity to clarify the info for the list as a whole.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Supporting members are defined as those who contribute at the Basic level ($20/mo) over a 6 month period as defined in Article I of our Constitution. <a href="http://hamwan.org/Administrative/Constitution.html" class="">http://hamwan.org/Administrative/Constitution.html</a> The PayPal link is at the top of our home page.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">By participating on this list, you’re already a general member, and all input/participation is appreciated. There is no obligation to donate to participate or make use of the network, but donations are appreciated and help us expand.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Nigel</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 23, 2017, at 12:39, Subhro Kar <<a href="mailto:subhro@80386.org" class="">subhro@80386.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">On Feb 23, 2017, at 12:29 PM, Nigel Vander Houwen <<a href="mailto:nigel@nigelvh.com" class="">nigel@nigelvh.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hello Subhro,<br class=""><br class="">Just as the people running for president are allowed to vote for themselves, Bart is a supporting member, and is able to cast his vote in all elections including his own.<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Oh, I was just giving him a hard time. Bart is someone I know outside of HamWan as well. But I think it was a bit inappropriate to do that on the list. I am sorry about that.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class="">Additionally, I appreciate your vote of confidence Subhro, but your name isn’t in the list of Supporting Members that Cory provided me, so I won’t be able to include your vote in the final tally. I do want to thank you for your participation though!<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Sure. How do I get into this list?</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Thanks</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Subhro</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Nigel<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 23, 2017, at 12:16, Subhro Kar <<a href="mailto:subhro@80386.org" class="">subhro@80386.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Are you allowed to self vote Bart? :-P I would not have voted otherwise though.<br class=""><br class="">Corey, Ryan, Bart and Nigel: All YAY. Dont fix something that is not broken.<br class=""><br class="">Subhro<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 23, 2017, at 12:11 PM, Bart Kus <<a href="mailto:me@bartk.us" class="">me@bartk.us</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">My votes are:<br class=""><br class="">Cory: Yay<br class="">Ryan: Yay<br class="">Bart: Yay<br class="">Nigel: Yay<br class=""><br class="">--Bart<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 2/23/2017 8:43 AM, Cliff Gurlen wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I vote as follows:<br class=""><br class="">Cory: Yay<br class="">Ryan: Yay<br class="">Bart: Yay<br class="">Nigel: Yay<br class=""><br class="">On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Nigel Vander Houwen <<a href="mailto:nigel@nigelvh.com" class="">nigel@nigelvh.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Apologies, minor correction: Supporting members are those who have<br class="">contributed at the Basic level for *6* months, not 12. The list remains the<br class="">same, as Cory gathered it using the proper criteria. Thanks Cory!<br class=""><br class="">Thanks!<br class="">Nigel<br class=""><br class="">On Feb 22, 2017, at 20:59, Nigel Vander Houwen <<a href="mailto:nigel@nigelvh.com" class="">nigel@nigelvh.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">As a supporting member, I will vote as follows:<br class=""><br class="">Cory: Yay<br class="">Ryan: Yay<br class="">Bart: Yay<br class="">Nigel: Yay<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Nigel<br class=""><br class="">On Feb 22, 2017, at 20:58, Nigel Vander Houwen <<a href="mailto:nigel@nigelvh.com" class="">nigel@nigelvh.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hello Everyone,<br class=""><br class="">It’s been a year since our current board members were approved, so it’s time<br class="">to revisit!<br class=""><br class="">As a quick recap for folks that haven’t been around, or need a reminder:<br class=""><br class="">Board member positions last for one year.<br class="">Any supporting member is eligible to vote for board members.<br class="">Any supporting member is eligible to run for a position on the board.<br class="">There is no limit on the number of board members, so if you want to run and<br class="">participate, you’re not taking a spot away from anyone else.<br class=""><br class="">There is a minimum number of 3 board members.<br class=""><br class="">Supporting members are those who have contributed at the Basic level<br class="">($20/mo) (or more) for the last 12 months.<br class="">Voting is open for 7 days.<br class="">Each board member is a separate “election”, IE you don’t have to choose one<br class="">person to vote for, you choose Yay or Nay for all individuals.<br class="">Please respond to the list with your votes, the list serves as our public<br class="">records.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Our current list of supporting members is as follows (the folks who are<br class="">eligible to vote):<br class=""><br class="">Robert Salsgiver<br class="">Benjamin Krueger<br class="">Nigel Vander Houwen<br class="">Ryan Turner<br class="">Bartlomiej Kus<br class="">Daniel Ransom<br class="">Allen Johnson<br class="">Clifton Gurlen<br class="">Ian Finder<br class="">Ryan Spott<br class="">Mike Shirley<br class="">Terence Chan<br class="">Tim Osburn<br class="">Cory Johnson<br class=""><br class="">In addition, we have a few folks that have made one time donations, or<br class="">haven’t been on a recurring donation long enough to be a supporting member.<br class=""><br class="">Jim Hudspeth<br class="">Francis Haugen<br class="">David Yost<br class="">Nick Austin<br class=""><br class="">I’d like to thank all of the above folks for supporting HamWAN and our<br class="">ability to purchase gear to expand the network and provide services to<br class="">users. We’ve been very fortunate in our ability to keep overhead low, so we<br class="">can put as much as possible into things that directly improve the network.<br class=""><br class="">We’ve seen the last year bring a pile of great progress:<br class=""><br class="">A number of new Open Peering Policy users have joined us, using our network<br class="">infrastructure to announce their 44-net networks to the internet.<br class="">Capitol Peak was approved and brought online.<br class="">Additional hardware for Gold was approved and brought online.<br class="">We added a high resolution PTZ camera at our Baldi site with generous<br class="">donations specifically for the camera.<br class="">Rob has done some fantastic work bringing some hospitals online.<br class="">We worked with our friends in Victoria BC to bring the Triangle site online<br class="">We underwent a routine IRS audit that found no problems, and I’d really love<br class="">to thank Cory for his efforts on this, and hope for his continued<br class="">involvement on the board.<br class="">We rebuilt the <a href="http://HamWAN.org" class="">HamWAN.org</a> website from scratch, Bart and Tom put a huge<br class="">amount of effort into this. Thanks guys!<br class="">Our sister networks in Memphis and Tampa have both grown.<br class="">We purchased our own ASN to improve our ability to help our sister networks<br class="">get online via BGP, and released the borrowed one we had been using back to<br class="">Threshold Communications, which had been generously letting us use it. They<br class="">continue to support our Westin edge router, which we appreciate greatly.<br class="">We purchased a number of locking equipment racks to help us install our gear<br class="">securely at sites.<br class="">We’ve purchased extra batteries to extend the runtime in case of a power<br class="">outage at Baldi (yet to be installed).<br class="">We’ve purchased and replaced a few failing modems over the year as well.<br class="">We’ve had some repeaters get connected this year, and we’ve recently added<br class="">an on-network DMR C-Bridge to support their efforts.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">As you can see, there’s a lot of forward progress over the last year, and<br class="">there’s no end in sight.<br class=""><br class="">Which brings me to the bit about actually electing board members. For the<br class="">last year, Bart Kus, Cory Johnson, Ryan Turner, and myself have acted as the<br class="">board for HamWAN. I’ve confirmed with each of them that they’re willing to<br class="">serve again this year if elected, so we’ll combine the votes for all four in<br class="">one email thread.<br class=""><br class="">Cory Johnson - Cory has graciously handled HamWAN’s financial and legal<br class="">filings and reports. I’m incredibly grateful for his efforts in general, and<br class="">especially this year after completing our IRS audit. Thank you Cory!<br class=""><br class="">Ryan Turner - Ryan heads our sister network in Memphis, and has put a lot of<br class="">effort into our automation, and outreach. Thank you Ryan!<br class=""><br class="">Bart Kus - Bart continues to put enormous effort into the physical aspects<br class="">of the network, acquiring new sites, installing and maintaining them, as<br class="">well as some software projects, as well as acting as an administrator for<br class="">the Puget Sound network day to day. Thank you Bart!<br class=""><br class="">Nigel Vander Houwen - (me) I handle much of our contract work, and record<br class="">keeping around technical aspects like LoAs, I serve as a day to day network<br class="">administrator, and have helped deploy and maintain some of the on-network<br class="">services, occasionally I manage to make a site visit with Bart to get things<br class="">done, and I handle things like the email you’re reading now.<br class=""><br class="">Voting is open for Cory, Ryan, Bart, and myself for 7 days, after which the<br class="">final results will be decided by the majority of votes cast.<br class=""><br class="">If any of the supporting members from above would like to participate on the<br class="">board, please announce your intention on this list, and your 7 day voting<br class="">period will end 7 days after your announcement. Duties are not time<br class="">intensive, and mostly consist of being available for occasional calls to<br class="">approve expenses, and assisting HamWAN in whichever other ways your time<br class="">and/or skills/knowledge allow.<br class=""><br class="">Thank you all for reading this rather long email, and hope to serve for<br class="">another great year with HamWAN.<br class=""><br class="">Nigel Vander Houwen<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">PSDR mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" class="">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br class="">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">PSDR mailing list<br class="">PSDR@hamwan.org<br class="">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">PSDR mailing list<br class="">PSDR@hamwan.org<br class="">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">PSDR mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" class="">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br class="">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">PSDR mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" class="">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br class="">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">PSDR mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" class="">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br class="">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">PSDR mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" class="">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br class="">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; 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