[vcf-midatlantic] ATTENTION! Steering Committee NEWS!

[Jeffrey Brace]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 8:32 AM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at 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 at vcfed.org

Jeff Brace