[Board] A reply to Michelle

[Stephen Miller]

*I have conflicting stories from Ed and Steve. The ORI board has problems
with what these two people did at Hamvention in Ohio in the US.*
I never went to Hamvention. Not sure where this came from.

*Ed and Steve were asked to apply to Demonstration Labs at DEFCON in order
to justify travel expenses. This is a formal part of DEFCON and receives
very good media exposure. Even after several reminders, they blew this off.
They didn't do it.*
Can you provide me with when and where the information for this was given
to us?

*This was discussed in person at HamCation in Florida, but Ed and Steve
didn't really seem very interested.*
If my interest seemed lacking, it's because a decision wasn't going to be
made while on a trip for M17. I prefer to make decisions when 'in the
office', as it were.

*This was ended by our CFO not only because of the DEFCON charges, but also
because of Ed and Steve's active effort to apply for a second round of
project funding from ARDC, on their own, without including anyone from the
current fiscal sponsor at all, and then lying about this funding proposal
to both me and ORI's chief financial officer.*
Neither of us started any application process to receive more funds from
ARDC. A simple discussion to ARDC members by Ed while at Hamvention on
whether or not additional funding would be possible was had. No formal
grant request has even been started, to this day. The reason this
conversation happened was due to information that we wanted to corroborate
from Michelle, where it was stated by Michelle that ARDC could not accept
ORI as a fiscal sponsor. No solid explanation was given to us by either
side on that matter, however ARDC did wish to continue funding M17. I never
lied to Michelle, or Steve Conklin. I find it extremely insulting that this
assumption was made.

*It's not a good experience at all for major changes to be started behind
our back by your team leaders, and then to have people we are supposed to
be working with lie about these activities, and then have to guess and
wonder what is going on for weeks afterwards.*
No major changes have been made, or even had decisions made upon. There was
a discussion about getting funding for a salary for Wojciech, because of
his current circumstances, and perhaps a second grant from ARDC, both of
which was posted in our boardroom channel on Discord.

I would greatly appreciate it if assumptions about lies or truth were
discussed with the people in question. I have not received one email, phone
call, text message, or letter from ORI about any of these allegations about
what I may or may not be lying about. There seems to be many assumptions
made about my participation and decision power within the M17 Project,
without any sort of communication with ORI regarding it. Personally, I find
this type of behavior disgusting. Never have I ever been accused of lying
by the CEO of any organization I have worked with, professionally or
otherwise. I can't believe that it was here, and in this situation which
has clearly been blown significantly out of proportion.

-- 
Steve Miller
KC1AWV
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