[vcf-midatlantic] ATTENTION! Steering Committee NEWS!

[Chris Fala]

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