[vcf-midatlantic] Moving forward

[Peter Fletcher]

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.

-Pete



> On Nov 11, 2020, at 8:59 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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> From: Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net>
> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Moving forward
> Date: November 11, 2020 at 8:59:28 AM EST
> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Yet hear you all are trampling on my grave and threatening to kick me out.
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> Apple without Steve Jobs is nothing special.
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