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Interesting thread--go to the end.
http://www.porsche356registry.org/356talk/1/34201.html
http://www.porsche356registry.org/356talk/1/34201.html
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How long will it be until everything on the site, including tech articles, will become "their" property also? Then they can release it to whom they feel is worthy & not to others.Mic
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Back to postings from Pat's reference to the laments from Doc Block and others, here and there;
To clarify the basis for a "club" called "The Registry," please read the 'epilog' and in particular the hand-written letter from Jerry Keyser to Vic Skirmants, on the Registry website:
http://www.porsche356registry.org/about-356-registry/356-registry-history.html
It seems to me to be obviously an intent to "register" at first very early 356s and then expand to other models...yes, with a newsletter, dues, etc.....but the name was originally the intent.
"Spin" from the latest Registry email blast contradicted on the Registry site? I'd say even the Jim Perrin piece on that same history page had some 'spin.' The evolution of 38 years of varying concepts of mission, leadership and ownership can cause various 'spins,' huh? I wonder if Vic himself will post on this conundrum.
All I can say after watching this evolution for 38 years coming to where it is now is best portrayed by a song lyric (also probably someone's "intellectual property")....."what a long, strange trip it's been."Comment
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Here's a question for those of us who are Registry members:
One of the sticky threads on the main discussion has to do with "post your chassis / motor numbers here..." etc.
Does the leadership maintain that that information in its database is now "intellectual property" owned by the Registry???
Go Niners!
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The inequities of rule-breaking posts on the Registry site are amazing, or are they? Certain posts are 'anything goes' and rule enforcement is selectively applied to others. The situation may have looked more sane recently, but reading 'over there' lately shows there was just a lull and it's back to 'same old, same old' with a new flap. It's over the previously noted pronouncement of 'club ownership' of 356 info (now called 'intellectual property') already gathered and a halt to gathering more.
More taking of sides. Less betterment of the Registry.
It has been pointed out more recently and by numerous 356 luminaries that nothing in the 356 Registry is going to change while Vic is still involved. I sadly buy into that observation.
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Sorry Joel, I did heavily edit my posting. For anyone who may care, I eliminated my suggestion that you retort to Vic's "bite me" with "Yo Mama's inimical!" I thought that to be funny at that moment, but reconsidered.
I also edited-out comments about school yard gang behavior, etc. No need to stoop to that level. What's going on in/about the Registry is not really funny. I often wonder if the people at Porsche read these forums and if so, what they think.
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Speaking of trustees.....and upcoming elections.....
Super heroes and villains emerge from all sorts of places, be it a phone booth or a sewer grate. The Registry (or whatever it will be called when it doesn't actually register) needs neither, just good people to run a simple car club correctly.
Accessible people, overall happy and friendly people who take care of the business of the club timely while soliciting member input openly whether it is suggestions or constructive criticism. The club needs to be a great club with a great magazine, not a good magazine with sort of a 'club' attached to it.
Members who care about how the club is run should be able to know. The trustees should be proud to share that which they do so more who care could determine if they want to eventually "take a turn at the wheel." That turn should be easier to envision for a qualified person if certain incumbents weren't perennial shoo-ins, keeping a seat on the board from name recognition rather than a record of achievement, but that's another issue for consideration.
My real question here is: does anyone know of anyone who could be comfortable in bucking the system in place now? Are any incumbents known? George told me he was stepping down. Is he? Is anyone known to be running (that has a shot just slightly better than a snowball) at what would likely be a cage fight to accomplish what I've described above?
Come on...I'd like to see input from more than the handful of 'regulars' here at this outpost.Comment
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another interesting thread
http://www.porsche356registry.org/356talk/1/34239.htmlComment
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