Your responses seem to be veering off topic from the original post. I'll address these last concerns one more time, after which you are more than welcome to start a new thread on the mailing list for a public discussion about the re-creation of MARCH as the primary topic if you wish to continue to discuss the topic directly, or contact me directly about any additional concerns, ideas, or suggestions you have about the Hack-a-Thon, or address the Steering Committee directly about MARCH and its purview. On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM Andrew Diller <dillera@gmail.com> wrote:
Er, can you then explain what MARCH is again? I know for sure it's not a national organization running computer events/shows. I thought MARCH was literally a local computer club.
I understand your confusion about MARCH's scope and activities. While MARCH is technically a regional organization focused on vintage computing, as per the "Mid-Atlantic Retro" portion of the acronym, the scope of MARCH is hardly "local" by the dictionary definition of the word. Fellow vintage computing enthusiasts from any location are welcome to participate in what MARCH does. It's not the same MARCH that was the organization which led to the founding of VCF. The new MARCH is named in honor of the original organization because it still runs the day-to-day and year-to-year operations on behalf of VCF's interests at InfoAge since its inception.
I don't understand the move to re-create MARCH as a local club and then try and have an organized event that is not for a 'local computer club.' Perhaps I'm missing something essential here.
Was this a MARCH hack-a-thon or a VCF Hack-a-thon- maybe the title got messed up?
MARCH isn't trying to be a local club. The intent to bring back MARCH was
a VCF Board approved initiative for it to become a regional chapter of VCF, providing events and services dedicated to vintage computing. This initiative was first made known to the public via this mailing list on Dec 12, 2024 (re. MARCH monthly Newsletter - December 2024). This may lead to the creation of other chapters around the country, or the world, each run in their own semi-autonomous way. MARCH continues to manage and run the operations for all VCF sanctioned events held at InfoAge. MARCH is also free to run events and exhibits of its own under the MARCH moniker, i.e. Repair Workshops, Open Houses, Hack-a-Thons, and the museum at InfoAge. Some specific details are still being worked out between MARCH and the VCF Board, but the general structure and hierarchy have already been established. Does that help to clear everything up? Jeff Salzman
-andy