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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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