[vcf-midatlantic] Gerry Lawson's 82nd birthday - Today's Google Doodle

[Christopher Gioconda]

Precedent setting notwithstanding, I can think of several other things
listed in Jeff’s and Corey’s emails that would benefit from $5000 and offer
more for the group as a whole.

Chris

On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 1:09 PM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> My question would be, once we did this. How do we explain to future
> presenters why we can't pay for their presentation?
>
> How do we explain to past presenters why we didn't pay for their
> presentations?
>
> Once this is done, the group is setting a precedent and I don't know
> how that would affect the group in the future.
>
> This is really outside of my scope, maybe my concerns are unfounded. I
> don't know and hopefully people who are more experienced in this than
> I can chime in about this concern.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 10:43 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic
> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> > Today's Google Doodle is about Gerry Lawson who helped design the
> Fairchild
> > F and on the team that pioneered the video game cartridge. Gerry has been
> > deceased for 11 years. He is one of the few African Americans who have
> been
> > inventors in the early vintage computer and vintage video game
> industries.
> >
> > Related to this: I have been presented an opportunity to have another
> > African American with similar experience come talk at VCF East: Ed Smith.
> > Ed Smith started out working for APF Electronics, Inc. which released The
> > Imagination Machine, a hybrid video game.
> >
> > Would any of you be interested in hearing his story?
> >
> > So here's the catch. Ed Smith wants a speaker fee of $5000 and travel
> > expenses. As far as I know the Vintage Computer Festival has never paid a
> > speaker fee. We honestly can't afford such a large fee. It is beyond our
> > budget. We have paid travel expenses for a select few speakers who can't
> > afford it and/or are very important speakers. I'm contemplating doing a
> > fundraiser for this. Just a straw poll. How many would donate towards
> this?
> >
> > I would love to hear his story.
> >
> > Thanks for your input!
> >
> > =========================================
> > Jeff Brace
> > VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President
> > Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner
> > Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
> > https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/>
> > jeffrey at vcfed.org
>