ATTENTION! Steering Committee NEWS!
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
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
Members: A follow on this to comment on my new participation. What started joining the Steering Committee and returning to docenting has turned a pretty fundamental shift in my whole life taking on responsibility for important aspects of VCF Mid-Atlantic. I'm taking it seriously. Jeff Brace deserves our full appreciation for shouldering the entire Mid-Atlantic operations for many years now. So now I'm taking on some substantial . It particularly pleases me to take on the responsibility for the warehouse and museum in order for Jeff to concentrate primarily on two parts he truly loves- events including VCF Festivals. I stand on the shoulders of Jeff, Tony Bogan and Adam Michlin, and other current regulars, and past MARCHers, who have put in untold hours for decades to create this organization and gather and keep this collection to the best of their abilities. I doubled up on responsibilities for the time being- Museum and Warehouse. My intention is to offload the warehouse to someone else in the future. I have had about a month now getting "my arms around" all the aspects of the museum & warehouse. I'm pretty well oriented now and am starting to get integrated into the Info Age organization too, as being effective on site requires good cooperation with the campus at large. I will be issuing monthly reports on both the warehouse and the museum. Due out shortly in fact. I am looking forward to what this team approach to the coverage of all the activities will bring us. I'm very excited. I love that these scaled-down divisions of labor should make it possible for a lot more people in the membership to be part of the organization in a defined and meaningful way. I think we maybe be in the verge of a big leap forward. I'm feeling it. Bigger spaces coming for warehouse and museum. Renewed interest. Restorations picking up pace. Buzz at InfoAge. Exciting new learning presentations in the museum. Stay tuned. Yours truly, Doug Crawford VCF Steering Committee, Museum and Warehouse Manager. On 8/16/2022 8:31 AM, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic 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
Now if only my writing would match my enthusiasm... Sorry for the crappy prose. On 9/5/2022 6:18 PM, Douglas Crawford wrote:
Members:
A follow on this to comment on my new participation. What started joining the Steering Committee and returning to docenting has turned a pretty fundamental shift in my whole life taking on responsibility for important aspects of VCF Mid-Atlantic. I'm taking it seriously.
Jeff Brace deserves our full appreciation for shouldering the entire Mid-Atlantic operations for many years now. So now I'm taking on some substantial . It particularly pleases me to take on the responsibility for the warehouse and museum in order for Jeff to concentrate primarily on two parts he truly loves- events including VCF Festivals.
I stand on the shoulders of Jeff, Tony Bogan and Adam Michlin, and other current regulars, and past MARCHers, who have put in untold hours for decades to create this organization and gather and keep this collection to the best of their abilities.
I doubled up on responsibilities for the time being- Museum and Warehouse. My intention is to offload the warehouse to someone else in the future.
I have had about a month now getting "my arms around" all the aspects of the museum & warehouse. I'm pretty well oriented now and am starting to get integrated into the Info Age organization too, as being effective on site requires good cooperation with the campus at large. I will be issuing monthly reports on both the warehouse and the museum. Due out shortly in fact.
I am looking forward to what this team approach to the coverage of all the activities will bring us. I'm very excited. I love that these scaled-down divisions of labor should make it possible for a lot more people in the membership to be part of the organization in a defined and meaningful way.
I think we maybe be in the verge of a big leap forward. I'm feeling it. Bigger spaces coming for warehouse and museum. Renewed interest. Restorations picking up pace. Buzz at InfoAge. Exciting new learning presentations in the museum. Stay tuned.
Yours truly,
Doug Crawford VCF Steering Committee, Museum and Warehouse Manager.
On 8/16/2022 8:31 AM, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic 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
The message infinitely outweighs the execution. Thank you, Doug! On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 10:56 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Now if only my writing would match my enthusiasm... Sorry for the crappy prose.
On 9/5/2022 6:18 PM, Douglas Crawford wrote:
Members:
A follow on this to comment on my new participation. What started joining the Steering Committee and returning to docenting has turned a pretty fundamental shift in my whole life taking on responsibility for important aspects of VCF Mid-Atlantic. I'm taking it seriously.
Jeff Brace deserves our full appreciation for shouldering the entire Mid-Atlantic operations for many years now. So now I'm taking on some substantial . It particularly pleases me to take on the responsibility for the warehouse and museum in order for Jeff to concentrate primarily on two parts he truly loves- events including VCF Festivals.
I stand on the shoulders of Jeff, Tony Bogan and Adam Michlin, and other current regulars, and past MARCHers, who have put in untold hours for decades to create this organization and gather and keep this collection to the best of their abilities.
I doubled up on responsibilities for the time being- Museum and Warehouse. My intention is to offload the warehouse to someone else in the future.
I have had about a month now getting "my arms around" all the aspects of the museum & warehouse. I'm pretty well oriented now and am starting to get integrated into the Info Age organization too, as being effective on site requires good cooperation with the campus at large. I will be issuing monthly reports on both the warehouse and the museum. Due out shortly in fact.
I am looking forward to what this team approach to the coverage of all the activities will bring us. I'm very excited. I love that these scaled-down divisions of labor should make it possible for a lot more people in the membership to be part of the organization in a defined and meaningful way.
I think we maybe be in the verge of a big leap forward. I'm feeling it. Bigger spaces coming for warehouse and museum. Renewed interest. Restorations picking up pace. Buzz at InfoAge. Exciting new learning presentations in the museum. Stay tuned.
Yours truly,
Doug Crawford VCF Steering Committee, Museum and Warehouse Manager.
On 8/16/2022 8:31 AM, Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic 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
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Chris Fala -
Dean Notarnicola -
Douglas Crawford -
Jeffrey Brace