On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 8:32 AM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Dear VCF Members,
This e-mail is the premier edition of what we hope becomes a regular and substantive communication from the Steering Committee. We hope to keep everyone informed and better engaged in regular operations.
Highlights:
- New personnel structure within the Steering Committee - Look for upcoming news about the IBM 1130
Full version:
The Mid-Atlantic Steering Committee is pleased to announce an exciting organization change. To provide a little background, for a few years we had been anticipating formalizing an Executive Director position. The person in this role would be the manager of regular operations of our museum, warehouse, local events, etc. After very careful consideration and a unanimous vote, we have instead chosen to institute a distributed set of management roles which together account for all the duties of the theorized Executive Director. The result is five roles which we have added to our updated by-laws, specified in section 7 (complete by-laws can be found here): https://vcfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/VCFMA-Charter-Jul2022.pdf
One major benefit of this organizational structure is that the various responsibilities are distributed across a team rather than one person. It also enables us to staff these positions from a wide range of volunteers. The team approach also takes advantage of various skillsets from multiple people.
The roles have been initially staffed as follows:
- InfoAge Liaison: Steering Committee Chair, currently Chris Fala - Warehouse Manager: Doug Crawford - Museum Manager: Doug Crawford - Event Coordinator: Jeff Brace - IT Manager: Alex Jacocks
In case you were wondering, not included in these responsibilities is the Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner position. That responsibility is assigned by the VCF National Board and is occupied by Jeff Brace. Jeff has also been assigned by the VCF National Board the task of managing the move of our artifacts between our old and new warehouse spaces.
We hope that you are as excited as we are about the growth and refinement of our Steering Committee, a cohesive team that has accomplished so much in growing our organization. Personally, I have great optimism for the continued improvement of VCF!
Please know that the Steering Committee is always open to ideas, thoughts, concerns, suggestions, etc. We are here to serve the membership, and our only goal is to help VCF to thrive.
In other news, please “stay tuned” for additional information regarding our IBM 1130 computer and an exciting project!
Sincerely, Chris Fala Chairman of the Vintage Computer Federation Mid-Atlantic Steering Committee
Lots of exciting stuff Chris! It's great that you are keeping everyone on this list informed of updates. I think everyone will appreciate the timely information and know what is going on. It was a great idea to break up the Executive Director role into 5 separate jobs. It was too much for one person to do all of those responsibilities. I very much enjoy the Event Coordinator position which I have done for many years now. I would like to point out the Steering Committee e-mail in case they want to contact them as a group: steering_vcfma@vcfed.org Jeff Brace