Jay,

Maybe you need to jog your memory a little. ODjr was around a long time and according to ODV email archives it was offered to the board to get around gmail incompatibility. It stuck around I guess. 

Either way, having private conversations with other directors is really not unusual. Some things are best discussed with a small group and then put to a wider audience. Formally we do this with committees. Informally we talk amongst ourselves.

If you oppose other directors talking amongst themselves privately I don’t know what to tell you. 

If you really are concerned about transparency, why not start with the E&E and righting some of the wrongs. What about when it was said that if one director lost his seat that an individual contracted by the ARRL said he would make the board’s life a living hell. What about a (past) director taking campaign donations from an ARRL lobbyist? I have more but you get the point. 

We have bigger fish to fry right now. Let’s not get caught up in this nonsense.

PS - ODjr largely remains quiet and I do not discuss much of anything there. And often I put out a post on ODV only to get silence.

What’s your beef?

73
Ria
N2RJ





On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 10:45 PM John Bellows <jbellows@skypoint.com> wrote:

Yesterday I received OD28239 Re: [ODjr] Metrics and Engagement. That OD message referenced a message from a different Director on a mailing list I had never heard back fl namely, ODjr@lists.kkn.net.

The traffic on the OD reflector provided for discussion by ARRL Officers and all Directors has been remarkably light since the new Board took office in January. The lack of discussion has been a concern a was raised at the recent EC meeting. 

A major topic in the last election cycle, and a concern by some Board members, including some then VD’s, was that the entire board was not privy to information and the appropriate level of transparency to which Board members and their ARRL members were entitled.

It now appears there is a separate reflector (ODjr@lists.kkn.net) being used by a subset of the Directors in place of the OD reflector. Use of such a private listserv for what appears to be a self-selected group of Directors would be wholly inconsistent with the call for more transparency and the concept of the board acting for the benefit of all ARRL members after full and fair discussion.

We are less than a month from the July Board Meeting. In the five plus months since  the new board staked out a new direction for governance, legislative actions and transparency there has been precious little information provided through OD and ODV as to how these initiatives are progressing. Though full reports will be provided in Board reports, but some interim updates would be beneficial and would allow for a better informed an prepared Board.

In the spirit of transparency and to permit all Directors the opportunity to fully engage their members in the short time before the July Board Meeting, the Directors (and any others) who are on ODjr@list.kkn.net should provide all Officers and Directors, as well as Vice Directors if appropriate, with all of the postings to ODjr@lists.kkn.net. 

In the further spirit the of transparency and to better provide a feeling of trust, understanding and cooperation among the ARRL Board, the members of ODjr@lists.kkn.net should identify themselves and articulate the reason for using an “offlne” reflector rather than the OD or ODV reflector that ARRL boards have used for decades to share information and discuss issues.

73,

Jay, K0QB


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