Re: First Day of NSL, the space time continuum is still A-OK

david:

we are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. In the past, Mark Bun*** has posted in various forums, the agenda on the schdule for the upcoming NARBOT meeting. In addition, this being the 21st century, I'm sure the NAR secretary could use a voice recorder to record everything is said and then transcribe the minutes from that. I guess I'm going to have to get the bylaws changed so we can get a full anc omplete minutes from NARBOT meetings. I migth add that even though the NARBOT agreed with my positions about the finanacial reports and minutes, posting them ONLY to the private 200-300 member NAR Section Yahoo group wasn't exactly what I asked for. I asked that they be placed as a pdf on the NAR website so all 4500 memebrs of the NAR would be able to see whats going on with their NAR.

I would bet if you did a survey of these other 4000 NAR members they would have no clue what the NARBOT has decided or not. Instead of getting 2 or 3 negative emails, they may have gotten 200-300 emails with a wider distribution of the NAR minutes.

terry dean


"David Erbas-White" <derbas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:nzIeg.4759$AB3.3742@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
shockwaveriderz wrote:


And the quality of the minutes I am still not satified with. I would prefer they be offered ib this format:

http://www.modelaircraft.org/ECnews.asp

This is the way I would prefer our minutes be generated in the future. They are clear, concise, they include all discussion,etc This is the way a "professional" organiztion does it...

terry dean



With all due respect, you're talking about an organization that has more than an order of magnitude more members (and financial support). You get what the hobby will support -- and our hobby does not support the level of effort required to do things in the way that you would like.

The NAR BOT essentially has a thankless task, and has to take crap from all sides. I do NOT agree with all of their decisions, but AS BEST AS I CAN SEE, everything that they did was on the up-and-up. If you don't like it, submit proposals, run for the board, assist with the (all-volunteer) tasks that are necessary, etc. Whining and moaning about it doesn't help, and if it gets to the point where you feel you can't morally associate yourself with the hobby (folks, please understand, that's not my position, I'm simply positing it for the sake of argument) then get out or form a competing organization.

David Erbas-White

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