[vcf-midatlantic] THANK YOU

[Dean Notarnicola]

Seconded! Like Bill said, Jeff(!), Evan, Tony and crew, Adam, Dave, Dan,
all the exhibitors, and everyone else who helped out but was not part of
the "official" crew, really pulled together like I have not seen
previously​, and made this a very impressive event. It's very gratifying
working with you all and being part of such a fine organization.

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:23 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:45 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone.
> >
> > I wanted to send this email Monday morning. Been crazy busy catching up
> on
> > work and sleep!
> >
> > Many people in our group and from the InfoAge community commented that I
> > seemed more relaxed at this year's VCF East than every other year.
> >
> > There are three words to explain the reasons.
> >
> > The first word is "team". More than ever, there were a ton of insanely
> > helpful people doing event tasks these past few weeks and at the show
> > itself. With advance apologies to anyone I forget, and in no particular
> > order: some of the most helpful people immediately preceding the show
> were
> > Corey (who's responsible for every penny of our business matters), Tony
> > (and his employees) for doing a ton of physical labor, Bill Dudley, Adam,
> > Jeff Galinat, Dean/Drew, Dave R., Dan, Bill W., Bill I., Bill Degnan,
> > Henry, Amy, Ann, Jeff J., Don, and Martin; our gatekeeper Victor;
> InfoAge's
> > support team of Patrick, Gloria, Jim, Dawn, Ben, Derek, and Elaine; and
> > Garden State Central Model RR Club's Steve, Jimmy, Bob, etc.
> >
> > That leads to the other two words: Jeff Brace.
> >
> > Anyone with even a limited view inside VCF operations can see that Brace
> > was "helpfulest" person of all. Our board smartly determined that Jeff's
> > attention to detail and openness to hard work were the perfect balance to
> > my hundred-mile-an-hour brain. They gave Jeff the role of project
> manager,
> > which left me free to focus on my strengths (summarized as "public
> stuff":
> > marketing, finding keynoters/presenters/sponsors, recruiting exhibitors,
> > making a good layout, social media, interacting with other organizations,
> > PR, museum improvements, etc.) .... however Jeff did more
> behind-the-scenes
> > work before, during, and after the event than most of you will ever know.
> > As I explained to many people last weekend: my job is to say, "Let's all
> go
> > thataway!", and if the board approves the direction/funding then Jeff's
> job
> > is to plan all the details for HOW to go that way. He's been our unsung
> > hero.
> >
> >
> +1 to all of that.
>
> I also wanted to recognize the hard work done by the exhibitors.  I have
> some nice footage to compile into a video, hope to get started on that
> right away.  This year the exhibitors got to it, did not need anything much
> and appeared to be self sufficient allowing staff to concentrate on other
> things.
>
> Bill
>