Re: [44net] Introducing Chelsea Párraga, our new Grants Manager

It is a nice goal to have all ham for all the ardc position. But I dont think it need to be mandatory for every position. Director general, Yup, in the GAC (grant advisory commity) totally, In the TAC (technical advisory commity) essential. But let be frank, do Chelsea NEED to be a ham, no, Should she become a ham, I am pretty sure she will just because of all the nice thing this activity can give. If we would hire only ham at front we would limit our access to a lot of nice and competent person and it could potentialy hurt ARDC/ampr on the long and short run. Chelsea Bring a nice expertise that was needed. I was not in the know of who had asked for the job, how many proposition and what was the ham status/experience of all of those porposal. But what I am sure of is that the main direction did choose the best proposal from all of them. I do prefer to have a non ham doing a very good job for the group, than a ham that do an average job. ( not pointing the finger at anyone, it is a figure of speach) And Paul, did you applied for the job? Do you know someone that could have applied? If so did you told that someone that the job was open? And that someone, is it a ham? Pierre VE2PF ________________________________________ De : 44Net <44net-bounces+petem001=hotmail.com(a)mailman.ampr.org> de la part de Paul Sladen via 44Net <44net(a)mailman.ampr.org> Envoyé : 19 mai 2021 08:24 À : Rosy Wolfe via 44Net Cc : Paul Sladen; AMPRNet/ARDC/44net Giving Objet : Re: [44net] Introducing Chelsea Párraga, our new Grants Manager On Tue, 18 May 2021, Rosy Wolfe via 44Net wrote: Congratulations! Which brings us to that elephant in the room. On: https://www.ampr.org/about/who-we-are/ one role ... a primary point of contact ... now has no callsign. Perhaps it could be made a strong recommendataion (again?) that hirings are conditional (or not announced) until an exam pass can be reported. We can read that there is a family of amateur radio support available, but then there's some words missing. Various organisations, like the MIT Radio Society, hold regular (remote) exams at the moment because of Corona (eg. 1 exam today, 2 exam dates next week): http://w1mx.mit.edu/ham-exams/ ARDC recently gave a grant to MIT Radio Society, but it's also missing from the list: https://www.ampr.org/grants/ Something else is also missing: 2021-05-15 (last week) was the deadline for filing AMPR's charitable accounts. Was this done? * * * Once again, warm congraulations, and welcome to the AMPRNet, or ARDC, or 44net... a somewhat confusing arrangement of pieces to explain to others, so if a history lesson is helpful, some of it is collated on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet -Paul Sladen _________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net(a)mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net