I'm on the new Steering Committee, and I'd like to give my perspective about information dissemination. I recently became involved in VCF and I was lucky enough to be close (1.5-2 hour) to drive to InfoAge Center where VCF events happen. I made the commitment to myself to attend every Repair day in 2019. Over the past year I met and got to know many of the people who tirelessly run VCF and some of the things that they had planned to make it better. I became even more interested in contributing my time for running the foundation.... It comes down to member involvement--- meeting and working/learning with people and making new friendships and making things go up in smoke. If more members show up for the repair days more membership will know what is going on, outside the mailing-list and forums... I believe that the new Steering Committee is going to provide more open, inclusive, and documented avenues for member involvement, so that pathways for people to become involved will be more clear with more opportunity for anyone with the time. Meanwhile, I encourage anyone who wants to talk and meet- come to a repair day and find me, I'll talk at any length on what is going on and what members can do. I plan on again going to every Repair Day, and certainly the 2020 Festival. If you are interested in meeting up drop me an email so we can confirm. Nobody is a plebe here, we are all members with a drive to explore and fix some amazing hardware that would be lost otherwise. -andy
On Dec 20, 2019, at 11:26 PM, Bryan Pope via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Both of these emails are out of the blue, without any prior notification to us plebes..