2013 Planes & Porsches?

[Phokaioglaukos]

saucerman wrote:

Steve said he would run it based on the fact we needed to cancel p.o.c's member meeting. Since that wasn't going to happen what choice did that leave us?

It seems to me that forum posts, as much fun as they can be, are not the best way of resolving what seems to be a conflict. Some members believe that the PnP event should not be abandoned, and they feel it strongly enough that many have pledged to organize the event in 2013 and contribute food and drink. Steve, one of those members, expressed a lot of anger at the current AX chair and made what I believe to be an unreasonable demand to cancel a member meeting at the chair's employer. The best result (for our club as a whole, the AXers and the charity in question) cannot be that no one talks to each other to figure out a way for PnP to continue. I cannot say I know the answer Steve would give to being asked whether he would do all he said he would do if the member meeting was still held at POC, but I think the question should have been asked by phone, e-mail or (best) in person. To refuse to engage in that dialog based on the supposed unconditionality of the demand to cancel the meeting may not be as petulant as making that demand, but it is not the leadership I would hope to see of our Board.

It is not too late for PnP to return for 2013 if we try harder to make it happen. It's a proven event with a lot of support that would be much less of an effort to organize than a whole new event, and it would be a good way for all those involved in this forum discussion to put their keyboards down and do something good together.