Well here’s my 2 cents worth. It really is a shame that all of this is causing people to stay away and not get involved. I have seen this firsthand at the Festivus last year and it was not pretty. I enjoyed Festivus last year, our swap meet recently and many of the workshops that I’ve been to. I have worked on some of the museum items to get them working. It’s about time to “cut the apron strings”. Let’s just Move on and move forward people, please! I don’t think you want to risk losing people in the group. Thank you Mike Rosen Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Nov 11, 2020, at 2:12 PM, Peter Fletcher <pfletch@mac.com> wrote:
These sorts of discussions are why many of us aren’t more actively involved. I enjoy showing up at VCF East and having an exhibit, but life is complicated enough to see this sort of infighting every few months.
Evan did great things and the steering committee does great things. I’ll stick to showing up once a year for VCF East and start muting these threads for my own sanity.
-Pete
On Nov 11, 2020, at 8:59 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
From: Evan Koblentz <evan@snarc.net> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Moving forward Date: November 11, 2020 at 8:59:28 AM EST To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>
What I see is a bunch of my so-called "friends" jumping on a vigilante bandwagon, as if the group was going nowhere or must "recover" because my leadership held it back.
Fifteen years spent building the collection, the museum, East, pushing forward the return of West, building amazing relationships with ACM, Bell Labs, Babbage Institute, CHM, IEEE, and all of the other collector/hobbyist groups, winning awards at NYC Maker Faire, growing the budget from zero to $50,000/year ... how easily we forget.
Corey said it best when I resigned back in December: the group, the museum, and VCF East all likely would not exist if not for me.
Yet hear you all are trampling on my grave and threatening to kick me out.
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