VB: [WWYC] WWYC Age Limit: Poll Results

[Teemu, SM0WKA]

As I wrote B4, My suggestion is that the honorary membership should be
called "WWYC Fanclub"

We could invite OH1NOA as #1 and HA1AG as #2

73 Teemu SM0WKA-SM0W

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> [mailto:wwyc-bounces at contesting.com] För Fabian Kurz
> Skickat: den 9 december 2004 02:34
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> 
> Hoi lids,
> 
> the poll to vote for or against a possible rule-change in
> WWYC, announced in our November 2004-Newsletter, on wwyc.net 
> and here on the reflector was running for about two weeks now 
> and has been closed now.
> 
> For those who don't remember what this was all about, from wwyc.net:
> 
> > Following some discussions and my article in the last
> WWYC-Newsletter,
> > I set up a poll to vote for a possible change of the rules
> regarding
> > "Old Farts" of our club.
> >
> > The Poll-Options are:
> >
> >   1. Open WWYC for everyone as a regular member, regardless of age
> >
> >   2. Add associate membership for older hams who like to show their
> >      support, no membership-numbers or login.
> >
> >   3. Add honorary membership for hams who have supported the club.
> >      Honorary members can be nominated by any ordinary member.
> >
> >   4. Don't change anything!
> >
> 
> And here are the offical results:
> 
> 1: 8 &
> 2: 10%
> 3: 71%
> 4: 12%
> 
> Total votes: 51 = 9.622 % of our members
> 
> So there is no doubt that the majority of those members who
> voted favour the third option: introducing a honorary 
> membership for WWYC.
> 
> This means that every member of our club can nominate any ham
> who has supported the WWYC in one way or another to become a 
> honorary member. The nomination including a short statement 
> has to be sent to our email 
> reflector at contesting.com.
> If there is no objection from another member against it 
> within one week, the honorary member will be accepted, if 
> someone objects against it, we have to put together a 
> commitee which has to decide the case. I sincerely hope that 
> this won't happen! :-) 
> The new possible honorary members will then receive an e-mail 
> with an invitation which they will most likely not decline 
> and then be honorary members of WWYC. 
>  
> Again some words on the structure of WWYC: We don't have
> written rules, we have nothing like a real president or 
> commitee to make decisions. The idea to introduce this 
> honorary membership was born during some discussions between 
> some YCs and I decided on my own to start the rule change 
> proposal in November, presented the idea in our newsletter 
> and asked for comments. I only got positive comments, within 
> a period of one week before I set up the poll, so I think 
> that it was legitimate to set it up.
> So I hope that everyone will accept the change of our 
> (unwritten :) rules.  I personally think that this modus 
> operandi is just the right thing for WWYC, although it has 
> its limits;for example last year when we sadly missed the 
> chance to have a young contester on the CQWW 
> commitee, mostly due to misunderstandings and bad communication. :(
> 
> I hope everyone is pleased with this, now please go ahead and
> put your comments and nominations on the reflector!
> 
> 73, go wwyc!
> --
> Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK * http://fkurz.net/
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