Re: [WISPA] Candidate Questions
Thank you for the opportunity to highlight my views for the future of WISPA and for allowing me to serve you as a Board of Director. As the Treasurer and a Director of WISPA, I will continue my roll in building membership and growing WISPA as thee wisp industry organization, to be more effective in the legislation that effects our industry. Over the past year I have taken the task of promoting membership and have enjoyed success in growing our membership through my active and outspoken efforts. Membership and the financial health of WISPA is a top priority. Unfortunately as positive as this past year has been for membership enrollment, it's not enough. I have brought forward to the board a proposal to hire a part time to full time WISPA membership employee. Although it did have a positive response from most of the other Board, we have not taken this next step to hire a WISPA person. Sometimes things don't happen fast enough. This next term, I will push WISPA in this direction. It's important to understand that in order to be effective, we need more help and we need more members to help. We need more organizational help. Help can be as simple as being vocal, or taking part on a special interest committee. Also important is that WISPA as a group understands that it represents a cross section of our industry made up of different beliefs, practices, and opinions. In order to evoke change and to help our industry grow in a direction that benefits us all, we need all wisps, no matter how small or how they think. WISPA represents ALL wisps. I will continue to promote membership in WISPA to help grow WISPA with a centrist point of view. Rule changes. We need new rules regarding componentized systems such as MT, Star, ADI, Icarus, open source, etc. The most effective accomplishment that I have had is the subject of certification and the advancement of certified systems now starting to hit the streets. Yes we need to be able to build our own certified systems, but we need the help of the manufacturers. At our WISPA Feb 2007 WASHINGTON DC FCC meeting I brought up the subject of certification and discussed in detail the aspects of certified and non certified systems used widespread as a standard practice through out our industry and how do we change this. I said to the FCC, you need to go after the manufacturers who sell these systems and make them get them certified, not the wisp. We talked in detail about the use and about the infrequent issues associated with Unlicensed Frequency use. I came back from DC with a message from the FCC concerning certified systems use and put the pressure where the pressure belongs, on the manufacturer not the wisp. I also put together a committee with Jack in the lead to help wisps get their systems certified. I'm sure there will e certified systems come from this seed that I planted. I personally talked to various manufacturers encouraging and drumming up support for certification and I know there will be many new certified systems. I have already seen some. But we need to not stop here, we need to actively try to create a special wisp or wispa certified system installer who can design - build on the fly with already certified and accepted components. Today we have new certified systems coming online and I believe I played a roll in hastening this. I have created 2 committees and would create any special interest committee that would be of interest or benefit our member wisps. WISPA as an organization is successful and headed in the right direction. This past year as a Director and the Treasurer, I can tell you that the other Directors and volunteer wisps that serve on committees trying to help are all special people who deserve recognition. Not one time have I witnessed any kind of impropriety from anyone. Everyone serving has WISPA's best interest at all times. Because of this, the membership should know that WISPA's financial condition is healthy. With volunteer ism for labor and conservative but necessary spending has allowed WISPA to stay in the black and with continued support and increased membership size, WISPA can more effective lobbying for change to benefit our industry. I appreciate your vote Thank You George John Scrivner wrote: Here are some questions that our board candidates can answer to help give some insight to those of you who will be voting for our board this Friday: What do you hope to achieve as a board member in WISPA over the next 12 months? What is WISPA doing right and what do you think needs to be changed? What are the top 3 laws or rules that you feel should be the highest priority for WISPA involvement right now. How should they be changed? Do you serve, or plan to serve, on any WISPA committees while in office? If yes then what committees? I will answer my own post with answers shortly. I encourage all board candidates to answer these
Re: [WISPA] Candidate Questions
Ok I screwed up and sent it to the wrong list. George George Rogato wrote: Thank you for the opportunity to highlight my views for the future of WISPA and for allowing me to serve you as a Board of Director. As the Treasurer and a Director of WISPA, I will continue my roll in building membership and growing WISPA as thee wisp industry organization, to be more effective in the legislation that effects our industry. Over the past year I have taken the task of promoting membership and have enjoyed success in growing our membership through my active and outspoken efforts. Membership and the financial health of WISPA is a top priority. Unfortunately as positive as this past year has been for membership enrollment, it's not enough. I have brought forward to the board a proposal to hire a part time to full time WISPA membership employee. Although it did have a positive response from most of the other Board, we have not taken this next step to hire a WISPA person. Sometimes things don't happen fast enough. This next term, I will push WISPA in this direction. It's important to understand that in order to be effective, we need more help and we need more members to help. We need more organizational help. Help can be as simple as being vocal, or taking part on a special interest committee. Also important is that WISPA as a group understands that it represents a cross section of our industry made up of different beliefs, practices, and opinions. In order to evoke change and to help our industry grow in a direction that benefits us all, we need all wisps, no matter how small or how they think. WISPA represents ALL wisps. I will continue to promote membership in WISPA to help grow WISPA with a centrist point of view. Rule changes. We need new rules regarding componentized systems such as MT, Star, ADI, Icarus, open source, etc. The most effective accomplishment that I have had is the subject of certification and the advancement of certified systems now starting to hit the streets. Yes we need to be able to build our own certified systems, but we need the help of the manufacturers. At our WISPA Feb 2007 WASHINGTON DC FCC meeting I brought up the subject of certification and discussed in detail the aspects of certified and non certified systems used widespread as a standard practice through out our industry and how do we change this. I said to the FCC, you need to go after the manufacturers who sell these systems and make them get them certified, not the wisp. We talked in detail about the use and about the infrequent issues associated with Unlicensed Frequency use. I came back from DC with a message from the FCC concerning certified systems use and put the pressure where the pressure belongs, on the manufacturer not the wisp. I also put together a committee with Jack in the lead to help wisps get their systems certified. I'm sure there will e certified systems come from this seed that I planted. I personally talked to various manufacturers encouraging and drumming up support for certification and I know there will be many new certified systems. I have already seen some. But we need to not stop here, we need to actively try to create a special wisp or wispa certified system installer who can design - build on the fly with already certified and accepted components. Today we have new certified systems coming online and I believe I played a roll in hastening this. I have created 2 committees and would create any special interest committee that would be of interest or benefit our member wisps. WISPA as an organization is successful and headed in the right direction. This past year as a Director and the Treasurer, I can tell you that the other Directors and volunteer wisps that serve on committees trying to help are all special people who deserve recognition. Not one time have I witnessed any kind of impropriety from anyone. Everyone serving has WISPA's best interest at all times. Because of this, the membership should know that WISPA's financial condition is healthy. With volunteer ism for labor and conservative but necessary spending has allowed WISPA to stay in the black and with continued support and increased membership size, WISPA can more effective lobbying for change to benefit our industry. I appreciate your vote Thank You George John Scrivner wrote: Here are some questions that our board candidates can answer to help give some insight to those of you who will be voting for our board this Friday: What do you hope to achieve as a board member in WISPA over the next 12 months? What is WISPA doing right and what do you think needs to be changed? What are the top 3 laws or rules that you feel should be the highest priority for WISPA involvement right now. How should they be changed? Do you serve, or plan to serve, on any WISPA committees while in office? If yes then what committees? I will answer my own
Re: [WISPA] Candidate Questions
Scriv, Where are you suggesting the candidates answer these questions? In what forum? Tnx, jack John Scrivner wrote: Here are some questions that our board candidates can answer to help give some insight to those of you who will be voting for our board this Friday: What do you hope to achieve as a board member in WISPA over the next 12 months? What is WISPA doing right and what do you think needs to be changed? What are the top 3 laws or rules that you feel should be the highest priority for WISPA involvement right now. How should they be changed? Do you serve, or plan to serve, on any WISPA committees while in office? If yes then what committees? I will answer my own post with answers shortly. I encourage all board candidates to answer these questions so people can decide who they want to represent them in the next year. John Scrivner -- Jack Unger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. FCC License # PG-12-25133 Serving the Broadband Wireless Industry Since 1993 Author of the WISP Handbook - Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs True Vendor-Neutral Wireless Consulting-Training-Troubleshooting FCC Part 15 Certification for Manufacturers and Service Providers Phone (VoIP Over Broadband Wireless) 818-227-4220 www.ask-wi.com -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Candidate Questions
I have asked Dave Smith in my office to have an email list setup for all paid members of WISPA to openly discuss this and other WISPA internal related business. This includes all Associate, Vendor and Principal Members of WISPA. It will be called [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list will be populated with one email address from each paid member company of WISPA. Each person will act as the representative for their company within WISPA. The first order of business will be our election. I will pose the candidate questions below on that list for open discussion. I do not believe that this public forum wireless@wispa.org is a good place for candidates to discuss issues as there are some ideas we may have for WISPA which we do not want shared on Google or other open forums. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] list will also be where all announcements to members will take place. If we need a vote of the entire WISPA membership then we will address those issues to [EMAIL PROTECTED] also. It will not become a heavily used general discussion list and will act as the one place where all WISPA members can be addressed. This is slightly different than [EMAIL PROTECTED] as that list is only for paid operator Principal Members of WISPA. Dave is populating this new [EMAIL PROTECTED] list with member's addresses right away. Obviously someone could ask to be unsubscribed from it if they wish but the list will not be used for anything other than important internal WISPA related business. I would assume that every paid member would want to be included in the inner workings of the organization including elections. I will see you paid members in that forum starting tomorrow. I am guessing it will take that long to get the email addresses populated. All the best, John Scrivner Jack Unger wrote: Scriv, Where are you suggesting the candidates answer these questions? In what forum? Tnx, jack John Scrivner wrote: Here are some questions that our board candidates can answer to help give some insight to those of you who will be voting for our board this Friday: What do you hope to achieve as a board member in WISPA over the next 12 months? What is WISPA doing right and what do you think needs to be changed? What are the top 3 laws or rules that you feel should be the highest priority for WISPA involvement right now. How should they be changed? Do you serve, or plan to serve, on any WISPA committees while in office? If yes then what committees? I will answer my own post with answers shortly. I encourage all board candidates to answer these questions so people can decide who they want to represent them in the next year. John Scrivner -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
