[WARC] Meeting Minutes

[Leslie Hittner]

MessageThe only Field Day discussion was a quick chat about the V-beam desi=
gn Clare is working on.

  ----- Original Message ----- =

  From: Jim Brown =

  To: 'Winona Amateur Radio Club general discussion' =

  Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:23 AM
  Subject: RE: [WARC] Meeting Minutes


  Les,

  You make some good points. Maybe I am looking more for a summary of what =
happened. Official minutes can wait for the Hamgram. Knowing what the progr=
am is ahead of time would be great.

  To be honest with the group, I live 13 miles out of town.If the program o=
r topics don't peak my interest I won't be there. For me it is 45 minutes o=
f total drive time to get to and from the meeting.Most of the club activiti=
es are brought up at a meeting. If I don't go to the meeting I don't know a=
bout it.

  Was Field Day brought up? We are only about 6 weeks away.

  Jim
  N0WE
    -----Original Message-----
    From: warc-bounces at lists.w0ne.org [mailto:warc-bounces at lists.w0ne.org] =
On Behalf Of Leslie Hittner
    Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:05 AM
    To: Winona Amateur Radio Club general discussion
    Subject: Re: [WARC] Meeting Minutes


    One concern I have (not a deal breaker) is that the minutes are not "of=
ficial" until approved at the next monthly meeting. How many "unofficial" c=
opies of the minutes do we want running around in cyberspace? Perhaps I cou=
ld plaster "Draft" across the front of them.

    Ideally, we want members to attend meetings. How much effort should we =
put into making the monthly "activities" interesting and attractive? How mu=
ch effort should we put into making it easier for members to skip those "ac=
tivities"?

    For that matter, why do we have monthly business meetings instead of ju=
st "activities"?

    As I look at my notes (Sorry, I have not placed them into a presentable=
 format yet), this last meeting had two items of business:

      1. We approved the minutes of the April meeting.
      2. We ajourned the meeting.

    While there were a couple of committee reports and some announcements, =
THERE WAS NO BUSINESS! The committee reports and announcements could have b=
een disseminated on WEPnet or on this reflector. I think committee reports =
should be submitted to the club in writing anyway. The formal "report" of a=
 committee to the club should not depend upon the club secretary's interpre=
tation of an informally delivered verbal statement. Such written reports co=
uld easily be presented to the executive committee, read on WEPnet, and pub=
lished on this reflector.

    What happened last Thursday is not terribly unusual. April's "meeting" =
consisted of the following items of business:

       1. Minutes approved.
       2. Treasurer's report approved.
       3. Meeting ajourned.

    Everything else was committee reports and chit-chat. It was all stuff t=
hat could have been handled elsewhere.

    The program last Thursday was interesting and relevant to a club operat=
ing activity that will be conducted in June. I didn't know what the program=
 was to be about in time to publish in the Hamgram. Had I been able to do t=
hat, we could probably have generated enough interest on the part of those =
who are planning on helping out with the bike race to have had more of them=
 present. Also, those who do not plan on participating in the bike race eve=
nt and who don't care about packet would then have had an option to do some=
thing else with their time last Thursday. Those people came, however, and w=
aited for over an hour for the start of a "meeting" that had no business.

    The treats, however, were great! Thanks Tom.

    -Les

      ----- Original Message ----- =

      From: Jim Brown =

      To: Warc =

      Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 8:45 AM
      Subject: [WARC] Meeting Minutes


      I would like to suggest that the club meeting minutes be posted on th=
is list shortly after the meeting. For those of us that do not attend meeti=
ngs on a regular basis it would give us an idea of what is going on. The wa=
y it is now we don't find out until the Hamgram for the following month whi=
ch may be too late if you want to participate in an activity.

      Jim Brown
      N0WE






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