Regardless of what we call ourselves.
The elephant in the room here is still apparent, and this is my opinion (I
am sure many have seen it as well.)
We have not really acted as a club in a long time.
Besides Festivus, when is the last time we did anything club like? People
show up to the Swap and leave immediately after many ignoring our post
event workshops. The same 5 or so people show up to workshops monthly,
barring the one right before VCF East which always has a higher turnout.
Very few newcomers appear to stick around, and if they do they just lurk.
How many are registered in the list again?
Hell it took me about a year to figure out how to even “join” the club
because no information was out about how to get involved. I was told to
talk to someone and wait for a phone call, which took over 6 months to come
in.
From what I have gathered, we have always regarded it as “If you are on the
list, you are in” but that is a terrible way, especially for an
organization that has grown to our size, as people have put it to keep a
member log.
We want to grow the local community here, do some outreach, fund fixing the
warehouse to protect our artifacts, and eventually expand our museum and
assist the other local groups on campus at InfoAge. All of which requires
having an active and informed local membership.
We are not renaming the organization here, not even the list. Specifically
it is proposed to rename and restructure the local chapter that handles the
local events, local fund raising, local museum, local warehouse, local
artifacts, local workshops, etc..
Did I mention Local?
-Ian L.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 09:04 Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic <
We are, or were created as one in 2015, an extension/chapter/whathaveyou
of VCF National.
We don’t necessarily need to remain that, but that is what we are at the
moment.
Tony Bogan
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On Oct 29, 2024, at 8:39 AM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic <
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