Might be good to do the opposite and say what you would like thats not currently happening. There was one group visit to the National Cryptologic Museum many years ago. Have been some local get togethers for a meal and whatever that aren't really the group but group members. These are nice but need additional people to organize. Problem with any group is only a few people want to organize things and they get burned out. All I know of is the workshops, fetivus year end party, and occasional calls for special help. Also docent for museum and VCF east help may be concidered part of club. On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 10:13:19AM -0400, Benjamin Krein via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
As a new-ish member who ends up lurking more than participating, I wholeheartedly agree with what Ian just said. It's hard to know how to be part of the VCF-MA/MARCH "club" & what that means. Other than Festivus or volunteering for support are there other "club" functions, meetings, gatherings, etc.?
Ben
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 10:05 AM Ian Litchfield via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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 < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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
On Oct 29, 2024, at 8:39 AM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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