InfoAge is hosting an open house / grand opening event on Saturday, May 14 from 1pm-5pm. that houses our museum....I hear there's going to be a party atmosphere -- food, drink, etc.
... I propose that we have our next repair workshop coinciding with this event. It would be very good of us InfoAge-citizen-wise if lots of us show up that Saturday...
You put this as a proposal, so it's a request for comments. I recommend against this proposal, to link a repair workshop with the grand opening event. The point of a repair workshop is to work, on repair. This Saturday event would eat up almost all of Saturday, in preparation and the event itself. But I may attend the grand opening, as you said that's supportive of InfoAge. You might consider some other specific VCFed museum activity that would coincide with and support the opening event. A demonstration of repair for instance - like straightforward repair of common vintage computers, that's something you'd not demonstrate during regular museum operation. As it's a month after the VCF-E re-opening of the museum, it's not reasonable to make a special exhibit. But it's possible there's some "crossover" items you could show, related to other InfoAge groups. For instance, radio amateur's early use of microcomputers for networking, repeaters, Morse code. I have some artifacts of that sort I could lend. Also you might make a poster showing "before" and "after" to make the point about VCFed use of the new building. So I've made positive counter-proposals, about your proposal to support the InfoAge open house. Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
InfoAge is hosting an open house / grand opening event on Saturday, May
14 from 1pm-5pm. that houses our museum....I hear there's going to be a party atmosphere -- food, drink, etc.
... I propose that we have our next repair workshop coinciding with this event. It would be very good of us InfoAge-citizen-wise if lots of us show up that Saturday...
You put this as a proposal, so it's a request for comments. I recommend against this proposal, to link a repair workshop with the grand opening event. The point of a repair workshop is to work, on repair. This Saturday event would eat up almost all of Saturday, in preparation and the event itself.
But I may attend the grand opening, as you said that's supportive of InfoAge. You might consider some other specific VCFed museum activity that would coincide with and support the opening event. A demonstration of repair for instance - like straightforward repair of common vintage computers, that's something you'd not demonstrate during regular museum operation.
As it's a month after the VCF-E re-opening of the museum, it's not reasonable to make a special exhibit. But it's possible there's some "crossover" items you could show, related to other InfoAge groups. For instance, radio amateur's early use of microcomputers for networking, repeaters, Morse code. I have some artifacts of that sort I could lend.
Also you might make a poster showing "before" and "after" to make the point about VCFed use of the new building.
So I've made positive counter-proposals, about your proposal to support the InfoAge open house.
Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net
There is a logic in having the repair workshop with focus on stuff that would benefit for the displays a week before the grand opening anyway. -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
There is a logic in having the repair workshop with focus on stuff that
would benefit for the displays a week before the grand opening anyway.
The week before is Mother's Day weekend.
ah, that. oh well. -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>
If the workshop was one day, then it would work. The car show is that day, but I don't think they are using 9032-A. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:31 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
InfoAge is hosting an open house / grand opening event on Saturday, May
14 from 1pm-5pm. that houses our museum....I hear there's going to be a party atmosphere -- food, drink, etc.
... I propose that we have our next repair workshop coinciding with this event. It would be very good of us InfoAge-citizen-wise if lots of us show up that Saturday...
You put this as a proposal, so it's a request for comments. I recommend against this proposal, to link a repair workshop with the grand opening event. The point of a repair workshop is to work, on repair. This Saturday event would eat up almost all of Saturday, in preparation and the event itself.
But I may attend the grand opening, as you said that's supportive of InfoAge. You might consider some other specific VCFed museum activity that would coincide with and support the opening event. A demonstration of repair for instance - like straightforward repair of common vintage computers, that's something you'd not demonstrate during regular museum operation.
As it's a month after the VCF-E re-opening of the museum, it's not reasonable to make a special exhibit. But it's possible there's some "crossover" items you could show, related to other InfoAge groups. For instance, radio amateur's early use of microcomputers for networking, repeaters, Morse code. I have some artifacts of that sort I could lend.
Also you might make a poster showing "before" and "after" to make the point about VCFed use of the new building.
So I've made positive counter-proposals, about your proposal to support the InfoAge open house.
Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net
There is a logic in having the repair workshop with focus on stuff that would benefit for the displays a week before the grand opening anyway.
-- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>
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