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If
there is a new project you would like to have the club consider,
discuss it with an officer, and we will help you present it to the
club. If the club approves the project, you may well be asked to be its
advocate!
Go to the description of the Advocate.
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These
are the Advocated Projects
(click on project name for more information):
See also the Officer's page.
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What is an Advocate?
by D. Daniel McGlothin, CVARC President
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At
the January 2007 CVARC meeting, and as the Activities Manager position
was/is
un-manned, the elected officers were placed in the role of Activities
Manager with the understanding that they would provide oversight to
others
who took on a particular activity. The idea was so that one person does
not
bear all the burden of all the activities. A side effect is that many
different people can easily get involved.
Do note that the position of advocate can be filled by more than one person. You might notice that the currently listed activities advocated are essentially the out-reach type activities in which the club has recently participated. There is no particular reason that new or different activities cannot be assigned advocates (case in point, the science fair sponsorship is new for 2007). As I envision it (although this is not necessarily the final word) is that the advocate would have a brief assignment (think job or task description), have a budget (depending on the activity), and would be able to draw on the club for support and personnel. Some projects are by design much bigger that the club (e.g., MTeC); in those cases, CVARC as the sponsoring club would look to the advocate to organize the resources from outside the club as well as the club's direct contribution. In other projects where the club's contribution is part of a larger effort (e.g., the Mercersburg Parade), the advocate would work with that sponsoring organization to fit the club's contribution into the larger effort. You might be wondering if an advocacy position could be filled by one who is not a member of the club. As to that question, I'm not sure if anyone considered that possibility in the discussion, I know I didn't. The discussion that transpired was premised on the understanding that the advocacy would be filled by a club member. As was stated in my "state of the club" talk, I do see there is benefit with recognizing that we as a club "can not do it all", neither do I think that we as a club "should do it all". As to the first, where nearby clubs or groups of hams are doing something that we are not; I see benefit in supporting that by means not limited to encouragement, publication, and encouraging participation for interested parties (one example is the ARA does licensing exams; it makes more sense to support them than attempting to duplicate the effort). As to the second point, I want the club to encourage the initiative of its members to form "special interest groups" or SIG to accomplish a particular project or operation. Where possible, the club will support these initiatives as we would support nearby clubs and groups--but with perhaps even more enthusiasm. These endeavors can even request the use of the club's identity, such as the science fair project has. I see no particular requirement that the SIG must be tightly bound or governed by CVARC. The activities at Rick's mountain site would, in my mind, be an example of such a specia interest group. The club is experimenting with this approach to distributed responsibility. The details are not completely worked out. For anyone that was at the club meeting, and has additional information on the discussion of the "advocate" concept, please contribute it. If I seem to have gotten something wrong, go ahead and say that too. So, anyone who read this far--volunteer as an club activity advocate! P.S. As to the particular word advocate. The term advocate was mentioned by one member as a possible descriptive name. I realize that we might be bruising the jurisprudential definition a bit. But dictionary.com provides definition #2 for the word advocate...
...and lists champion, proponent as synonyms for this meaning. It is in this sense the word is used. See full definition at:
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