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> Noone is questioning whether the volunteers worked their butts off. What
> we're talking about is that the AMSAT community (at least some, anyway) have
> an expectation of performance equivalent to what would be provided by
> full-time paid staff. Well, as long as it's volunteers only, that
> expectation is not reasonable (IMHO).
Mark.
"level of performance".
No one at least in their right mind would expect a "volunteer" to equal the
work through put of a paid employee...
For example..in The Church of Christ (where I worship) any fool can get into
the pulpit and preach...and the other hand the preacher is expected to have
three sermons a week ready to go...
But the volunteers need to have similar levels of competency in the tools being
used as the Preacher or they should not be allowed into the pulpit in the first
place.
It is like tower climbing...I dont do it as fastl as the folks who
professionally climb the 1000 footer that our clubs machine is on...but for the
team that does it to get on the tower...we had to meet a minimium level of
competency and demonstrate that.
No matter how it is spun suitsat 1 was a failure.
Good engineering standards would dictate figuring out the weak links and then
correcting them trying something that perhaps was a bit more "sophisticated"
but not all that much more...if for no other reason to make sure that the
methods that defeat the failure are well understood.
Instead what happened is that the "team" put together a project so complicated
that they missed their free launch.
I dont care how good the engineering is to miss a free launch is bad management.
That reality seems to bite some folks
Robert WB5MZO
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