Well, gosh! It was certainly not my intention to be contentious. As y'all may suspect, I am a practicing luddite, however ironic my use of this reflector may seem. John, K5IZO, as you indicated, I have volunteered due to being invited by eyeball QSO.
I'll shut up now. KI5HOC On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 5:09 PM John Chauvin <k5...@yahoo.com> wrote: > John, > > Thank you for the response. > > Regarding Zoom, yes, there are many people that don't do Zoom. That's the > beauty of amateur radio that there are many facits of the hobby and many > ways of achieving the same objective. Be advised that Zoom has apparently > evolved in some instances to be a form Social Media but primarily remains > simply an electronic way of having meetings for people that can't > realistically meet at the same location and time. Fortune 500 companies > use it literally thousands of times a day. Many of those companies ban > traditionally Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. > on their networks. > > Regarding using Zoom or the meetings as an only channel of recruitment of > volunteers, I made it clear that tonight's Zoom meeting is not a recruiting > session. > > Volunteers are not "denied the opportunity" to participate in that members > and others are recruited mostly one-on-one, as I had done with you and > others to assist at the Equipment Check Table. Other opportunities and > ways are in groups, discussions at personal encounters, at events, nets, > general repeater chit-chat and of course for those that wish to initiate > action, there is a lot at the Hamfest Website itself which has a special > page dedicated to Volunteers. Even that is not enough however, so any > other suggestions are always welcome. > > I look forward to seeing you again at a Wednesday Lunch Bunch, Saturday > Morning Breakfast, hopefully the banquet, at the February General > Membership Meeting and of course at the Hamfest. > > Tnx es 73 > de John, K5IZO > > > > On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 11:56:25 AM CST, John Mechura < > john.mech...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't do Zoom. There may be others that don't, also. > > Please consider that there may be volunteers denied the opportunity if > social media is the only channel to recruitment. > > John, KI5HOC > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 11:46 AM John Chauvin via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> > wrote: > > As per precedent, because of the banquet, there will be no General > Membership Meeting this month (would have been tonight). Therefore, how > about participating in the Hamfest Zoom meeting tonight. No, it's not a > recruiting session, but any volunteers will be heard. Since you received > this e-mail, you are on the BVARC Reflector, so you received the Zoom > invite last Thursday, January 5. > > Tnx, es 73 > de John, K5IZO > > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > BVARC@bvarc.org > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ > >
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