I firmly believe that Bdale Garbee, KB0G is an excellent choice for the position. I met him many (1) years ago through TAPR in the early AX.25/packet days Very knowledgeable and fair individual. Good Luck Bdale Don WB5EKU On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 12:58 PM Randy Neals via 44Net <44net(a)mailman.ampr.org> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 2:32 PM Darcy Buskermolen via 44Net < 44net(a)mailman.ampr.org&gt; wrote: Who would do the election? Readers may wish to review Articles III and IV of the ARDC corporate by-laws <https://www.ampr.org/wp-content/uploads/Bylaws-2019-03-03.pdf> which is the governing document subject to the laws under which the corporation was formed. These questions are addressed there. Bdale has been active in the amateur digital and amateur satellite community since at least the early 80s. (I have had occasion to interact with him going back into the 80s.) He has also been in the Open Source community most of that time. He comes with a good resume: Bdale Garbee Technologist and Community Builder A contributor to the Free Software community since 1979, Bdale's background also includes many years of hardware design, Unix internals, and embedded systems work. He was an early participant in the Debian project, helped port Debian GNU/Linux to 5 architectures, served as Debian Project Leader, then chairman of the Debian Technical Committee for nearly a decade, and remains active in the Debian community. In 2012, Bdale retired from HP, where he served as Chief Technologist for Open Source and Linux. After briefly working for Samsung as an open source advisor, Bdale returned to HP in 2014 as an HP Fellow in the Office of the CTO where for 25 months he led HP's open source strategy work before returning to retirement late in 2016. During his tenure, HP (later HPE) engaged in a wide variety of open source activities, and maintained consistent market leadership in the sale of servers and storage to Linux users. Altus Metrum, LLC, is a small business Bdale founded with Keith Packard that designs, builds, and sells completely open hardware and open source avionics solutions for use in high power model rockets. For a decade, Bdale served as President of Software in the Public Interest. He served nearly as long on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation representing individual affiliates and the developer community. Bdale currently serves on the boards of the Freedombox Foundation, Linux Professional Institute, and Aleph Objects. He is also a member of the Evaluations Committee at the Software Freedom Conservancy, and continues to speak at Linux and open source conferences from time to time. In 2008, Bdale became the first individual recipient of a Lutece d'Or award from the Federation Nationale de l'Industrie du Logiciel Libre in France. Bdale engages in a wide variety of personal activities. In addition to high-powered model rocketry and home shop machining, he is widely known for his contributions to the amateur radio hobby including packet radio, weak-signal communications, software defined radio, and building amateur satellites. -- https://gag.com/bdale/bio/bdale_bio.txt Seems like a good pick. ------------------------------ John D. Hays - K7VE Kingston, WA <http://k7ve.org/blog> <http://twitter.com/#!/john_hays> <http://www.facebook.com/john.d.hays>

On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:55:44 -0400, Bryan Fields via 44Net &lt;44net(a)mailman.ampr.org&gt; wrote: Bryan, Allegations of fraud are a serious matter. If you have proof of fraud, get a lawyer and file a case but my guess is a lawyer will tell you you don't have standing. If you can't prove your case or you don't have evidence then what you are writing is libel. Do not allege that which you cannot prove. -- Geoff Joy - ke6qh - AmprNet IP Address Coordinator for San Bernardino & Riverside Counties. (44.18/16)