<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px">My votes are the following:<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205855" clear="none"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205856" clear="none">Cory: Yay<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205857" clear="none">Ryan: Yay<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205858" clear="none">Bart: Yay<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205859" clear="none">Nigel: Yay<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205838"><span></span></div><div> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205839">73 from Dan at K7MM<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473426069019_65382" dir="ltr"><br>Secretary/Treasurer</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473426069019_65383" dir="ltr"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1474896469209_61641">West Sound Amateur Radio Club, N7IG</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1474896469209_61619"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.n7ig.org/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1474896469209_61658">www.n7ig.org</a> | <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wsarc.club/" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1474896469209_61620">www.wsarc.club</a> </div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473426069019_65386" dir="ltr"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1474896469209_61617">2336 Steamboat Loop E</div>Port Orchard, WA 98366<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473426069019_65387" dir="ltr">(509) 330-6398</div></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205864" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205863"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205862"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205861"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Bart Kus <me@bartk.us><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> psdr@hamwan.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, February 23, 2017 12:11 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Board Elections<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487695991260_205867"><br>My votes are:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cory: Yay<br clear="none">Ryan: Yay<br clear="none">Bart: Yay<br clear="none">Nigel: Yay<br clear="none"><br clear="none">--Bart<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 2/23/2017 8:43 AM, Cliff Gurlen wrote:<br clear="none">> I vote as follows:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Cory: Yay<br clear="none">> Ryan: Yay<br clear="none">> Bart: Yay<br clear="none">> Nigel: Yay<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Nigel Vander Houwen <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:nigel@nigelvh.com" href="mailto:nigel@nigelvh.com">nigel@nigelvh.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>> Apologies, minor correction: Supporting members are those who have<br clear="none">>> contributed at the Basic level for *6* months, not 12. The list remains the<br clear="none">>> same, as Cory gathered it using the proper criteria. Thanks Cory!<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Thanks!<br clear="none">>> Nigel<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 20:59, Nigel Vander Houwen <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:nigel@nigelvh.com" href="mailto:nigel@nigelvh.com">nigel@nigelvh.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> As a supporting member, I will vote as follows:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Cory: Yay<br clear="none">>> Ryan: Yay<br clear="none">>> Bart: Yay<br clear="none">>> Nigel: Yay<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Thanks,<br clear="none">>> Nigel<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 20:58, Nigel Vander Houwen <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:nigel@nigelvh.com" href="mailto:nigel@nigelvh.com">nigel@nigelvh.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Hello Everyone,<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> It’s been a year since our current board members were approved, so it’s time<br clear="none">>> to revisit!<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> As a quick recap for folks that haven’t been around, or need a reminder:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Board member positions last for one year.<br clear="none">>> Any supporting member is eligible to vote for board members.<br clear="none">>> Any supporting member is eligible to run for a position on the board.<br clear="none">>> There is no limit on the number of board members, so if you want to run and<br clear="none">>> participate, you’re not taking a spot away from anyone else.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> There is a minimum number of 3 board members.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Supporting members are those who have contributed at the Basic level<br clear="none">>> ($20/mo) (or more) for the last 12 months.<br clear="none">>> Voting is open for 7 days.<br clear="none">>> Each board member is a separate “election”, IE you don’t have to choose one<br clear="none">>> person to vote for, you choose Yay or Nay for all individuals.<br clear="none">>> Please respond to the list with your votes, the list serves as our public<br clear="none">>> records.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Our current list of supporting members is as follows (the folks who are<br clear="none">>> eligible to vote):<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Robert Salsgiver<br clear="none">>> Benjamin Krueger<br clear="none">>> Nigel Vander Houwen<br clear="none">>> Ryan Turner<br clear="none">>> Bartlomiej Kus<br clear="none">>> Daniel Ransom<br clear="none">>> Allen Johnson<br clear="none">>> Clifton Gurlen<br clear="none">>> Ian Finder<br clear="none">>> Ryan Spott<br clear="none">>> Mike Shirley<br clear="none">>> Terence Chan<br clear="none">>> Tim Osburn<br clear="none">>> Cory Johnson<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> In addition, we have a few folks that have made one time donations, or<br clear="none">>> haven’t been on a recurring donation long enough to be a supporting member.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Jim Hudspeth<br clear="none">>> Francis Haugen<br clear="none">>> David Yost<br clear="none">>> Nick Austin<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> I’d like to thank all of the above folks for supporting HamWAN and our<br clear="none">>> ability to purchase gear to expand the network and provide services to<br clear="none">>> users. We’ve been very fortunate in our ability to keep overhead low, so we<br clear="none">>> can put as much as possible into things that directly improve the network.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> We’ve seen the last year bring a pile of great progress:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> A number of new Open Peering Policy users have joined us, using our network<br clear="none">>> infrastructure to announce their 44-net networks to the internet.<br clear="none">>> Capitol Peak was approved and brought online.<br clear="none">>> Additional hardware for Gold was approved and brought online.<br clear="none">>> We added a high resolution PTZ camera at our Baldi site with generous<br clear="none">>> donations specifically for the camera.<br clear="none">>> Rob has done some fantastic work bringing some hospitals online.<br clear="none">>> We worked with our friends in Victoria BC to bring the Triangle site online<br clear="none">>> We underwent a routine IRS audit that found no problems, and I’d really love<br clear="none">>> to thank Cory for his efforts on this, and hope for his continued<br clear="none">>> involvement on the board.<br clear="none">>> We rebuilt the HamWAN.org website from scratch, Bart and Tom put a huge<br clear="none">>> amount of effort into this. Thanks guys!<br clear="none">>> Our sister networks in Memphis and Tampa have both grown.<br clear="none">>> We purchased our own ASN to improve our ability to help our sister networks<br clear="none">>> get online via BGP, and released the borrowed one we had been using back to<br clear="none">>> Threshold Communications, which had been generously letting us use it. They<br clear="none">>> continue to support our Westin edge router, which we appreciate greatly.<br clear="none">>> We purchased a number of locking equipment racks to help us install our gear<br clear="none">>> securely at sites.<br clear="none">>> We’ve purchased extra batteries to extend the runtime in case of a power<br clear="none">>> outage at Baldi (yet to be installed).<br clear="none">>> We’ve purchased and replaced a few failing modems over the year as well.<br clear="none">>> We’ve had some repeaters get connected this year, and we’ve recently added<br clear="none">>> an on-network DMR C-Bridge to support their efforts.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> As you can see, there’s a lot of forward progress over the last year, and<br clear="none">>> there’s no end in sight.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Which brings me to the bit about actually electing board members. For the<br clear="none">>> last year, Bart Kus, Cory Johnson, Ryan Turner, and myself have acted as the<br clear="none">>> board for HamWAN. I’ve confirmed with each of them that they’re willing to<br clear="none">>> serve again this year if elected, so we’ll combine the votes for all four in<br clear="none">>> one email thread.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Cory Johnson - Cory has graciously handled HamWAN’s financial and legal<br clear="none">>> filings and reports. I’m incredibly grateful for his efforts in general, and<br clear="none">>> especially this year after completing our IRS audit. Thank you Cory!<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Ryan Turner - Ryan heads our sister network in Memphis, and has put a lot of<br clear="none">>> effort into our automation, and outreach. Thank you Ryan!<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Bart Kus - Bart continues to put enormous effort into the physical aspects<br clear="none">>> of the network, acquiring new sites, installing and maintaining them, as<br clear="none">>> well as some software projects, as well as acting as an administrator for<br clear="none">>> the Puget Sound network day to day. Thank you Bart!<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Nigel Vander Houwen - (me) I handle much of our contract work, and record<br clear="none">>> keeping around technical aspects like LoAs, I serve as a day to day network<br clear="none">>> administrator, and have helped deploy and maintain some of the on-network<br clear="none">>> services, occasionally I manage to make a site visit with Bart to get things<br clear="none">>> done, and I handle things like the email you’re reading now.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Voting is open for Cory, Ryan, Bart, and myself for 7 days, after which the<br clear="none">>> final results will be decided by the majority of votes cast.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> If any of the supporting members from above would like to participate on the<br clear="none">>> board, please announce your intention on this list, and your 7 day voting<br clear="none">>> period will end 7 days after your announcement. Duties are not time<br clear="none">>> intensive, and mostly consist of being available for occasional calls to<br clear="none">>> approve expenses, and assisting HamWAN in whichever other ways your time<br clear="none">>> and/or skills/knowledge allow.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Thank you all for reading this rather long email, and hope to serve for<br clear="none">>> another great year with HamWAN.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Nigel Vander Houwen<br clear="none">>> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">>> PSDR mailing list<br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" href="http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr" target="_blank">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr</a><div class="yqt9044264858" id="yqtfd43125"><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">>> PSDR mailing list<br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" href="http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr" target="_blank">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr</a><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">>> PSDR mailing list<br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br clear="none">>> <a shape="rect" href="http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr" target="_blank">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr</a><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> PSDR mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr" target="_blank">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">PSDR mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org" href="mailto:PSDR@hamwan.org">PSDR@hamwan.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr" target="_blank">http://mail.hamwan.net/mailman/listinfo/psdr</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>