On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 2:12 PM Peter Fletcher via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> 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.

Hey Pete, Sorry to hear that you are feeling that way. I can totally empathize with your feelings. I would ask you to keep in mind that discussions like these are not representative of everything that happens in our group. I'd like to think of us as a family. Families fight sometimes, have hurt feelings, hold resentments, etc. But families also have a lot of positive things like friendship, camaraderie, similar interests, vintage computer fun! I invite you to not give up on going to other events, especially Festivus which is our "most fun" event. Also come to our repair workshops. From going to these events you can see more of the positive side of our members. In any case, I applaud you telling us your feelings. I would much rather know someone's feelings whatever they are, than to not know and wonder. At least if we know, then we can at least try to address the situation. Jeff

-Pete

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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.

Apple without Steve Jobs is nothing special.

-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member Vintage Computer Festival East Show-runner Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org cell: 732-759-1783