Were we not considering some sort of joint event with FISPA?
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 8, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Butch Evans <but...@butchevans.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:03 -0800, Forbes Mercy wrote: >> While I initially had the same concerns you had and was not even that >> personally impressed in our meeting with their promoters, I >> eventually >> decided it was the way to go for one reason, membership. > > So, here is the board (one member anyway) stating that you (not a > committee) decided to go with them. > >> Also for those who have stated we have made up our minds, those >> people >> are just people stirring s^&t, they speak from no fact whatsoever and >> just like to say the board just does what they want, it's crap, >> untrue. > > Even YOU say that the board made this decision. Well, not the board, > but you and Matt. The message posted to the committee said the same > thing. Who is the "those people..." you are referring to? I have > stated nothing more or less than fact. > >> We've been very transparent and this debate is us taking that input >> and >> using it to weigh heavily in our decision. > > Which input are you referring to? There has been only one message > (mine) posted to the committee list and I didn't say one way or the > other beyond stating that IF we (WISPA) were to put on a show, it > would > have to be late in the year due to the timing of the messages and > discussion (or lack of discussion, to be more precise). FWIW, it > would > appear that the board is not even in complete agreement that the path > you and Matt chose is right, as Marlon has been posting things to the > show committee list indicating that HE thinks the show should be a > WISPA > event, too. > >> It's a huge decision, easy >> for members to say "hey you put on your own show" but just think >> about >> the work that would put on a volunteer board versus the idea of >> what I >> stated above. > > But isn't this a member focused organization? At least this should > have > been a committee decision. We did not even have opportunity to > discuss > it. We were simply told that you (Forbes) and Matt had made the > decision. There was no input to consider. > >> Most opinions I've read have been self serving ones, 'put >> it five miles from my house' kind of thing. We're trying to serve >> the >> entire country and those with the middle America approach are very >> valid >> for that reason. We'd really enjoy hearing these kind of ideas but >> if we >> sit here and argue where all day we'll never get to put it on and yet >> another WISPA initiative gets buried in minutia, as a board this is >> exactly what we are trying to stop. > > THEN SEND THE QUESTION TO A COMMITTEE! Isn't that what the committees > are for? This isn't even a member's list that you are posting this to > (me, either). > > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* > * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * > * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * > * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * > ******************************************************************** > > > > --- > --- > --- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > --- > --- > --- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
