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In lugnet.org.us.lrgoaa, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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I think I may still not have made myself completely clear. In my view as an
ex officer of the club, one of the principal bylaws authors, and as a general
student of community, the club as a whole has no desire to see LRGOAA become
a SIG within MichLUG, unless that desire is mutual, our members and yours.
Speaking just for myself, I personally would not want to see it, actually, at
least not at the present time, and if it were put to a vote, would vote
against it. But that’s not what is being suggested here.
That’s not at all the same thing as doing joint meetings or joint
exhibitions. That’s all that was being asked... is there an interest in a
joint meeting, or in doing some shows together at some point if the proper
show presented itself. Nor is it the same thing as feeling that one club
excludes the other, which is a sense I’m getting from you from some previous
posts.
I’m not going to argue about whether layout automation is robotics or not, or
what makes a valid use of the RCX. My bringing it up was to contrast with
your statement that we have no robotics interest. It may not be the kind
you’re interested in, which is fine, but it’s nevertheless robotics.
We have robotics interest because people (members) introduced it to us. We
also (as a club) didn’t have any gaming interest, until members introduced it
to us, and now we play BrickQuest or Evil Stevie’s on a semi regular basis.
We also didn’t have any people interested in set drafting, until it was
introduced to us by members. Now we draft just about every meeting. Ditto for
castle exhibitions, ditto for space, stuff like the moonbase standard...
close to 1/2 of our shows now are not purely train but have other components.
We have a very impressive collection of moonbase modules now.
But, yes, we do a lot of train shows. Many train shows, frankly, are money
makers for us, and doing train shows enables our club to do other things we
want to do, like Festival of Trees, and other money losing or charity events.
So we probably will keep doing them. Besides, some of us enjoy interacting
with hundreds or thousands of people, and spreading the word about how neat
LEGO is. Trains are a good gateway to bring people into the hobby, everyone
understands them, and they’re in my view more accessible than many other
facets are.
I think it’s actually great that you find trains (almost) as boring and
uninteresting as I find sumo competitions, because if we in the overall hobby
all liked the same things it wouldn’t be nearly as rich of a hobby as it is.
That said, we need to work to understand and accept the interests of others
rather than being dismissive of them. Not that you necessarily are, but some
of your posts do leave the impression that you think others might be.
++Lar
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We could go back and forth all day with this discussion, but the bottom line is
that your group is very different from my group. An event of some sort that
brought the 2 groups together would be interesting and might be fun. I’ll leave
it Jason to suggest the specifics of such an event.
Jona
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