I think Charles' original point was that it SEEMS like there's an "old boys' network". I doubt anyone thinks the SHARE Board is happy with declining attendance--that would be insane. But what we aren't seeing are substantive changes that seem like they'll help. Let me be clear: I said "aren't seeing". That doesn't mean things aren't being considered and even tried, but they clearly aren't working (yet) if so.
So Charles' main points (from my perspective--far be it from me to claim to speak for him!) were that: 1) the OP's difficulty with the website is Bad and could be fixed relatively easily 2) the company-membership thing, whether required or not, *feels* required, and might should be reevaluated Seems difficult (to me) to argue with either of those, yet the reaction has been defensiveness and attacks on Charles. Why? On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Ed Finnell < [email protected]> wrote: > Well, wasn't a first time or a confession but I had a session scheduled in > the Marquee Marriott(NYC) in the > 'fashion room' with mirrored walls and ceilings. I had a session penciled > in for the Hilton across the street, > but it was raining so just parked in the 'fashion room'. The session was > about Fonts and Font design. Probably one of the most knowledgeable > presenters I'd ever heard. Knew optics, physics, biometrics > just everything that goes into Font presentation. Great graphics and super > slides everything just flowed > together. Think I wrote it up as accidental learning. > > Probably 'old boys club' is exacerbated by shrinking demographics and > economic downturn. There's still lots of life left in MVS with new > features in > hardware and software. SHARE can help you or your company exploit > these features and integrate them into your enterprise. There's other OS's > too! Guess what to keep and what to throw away as trends come and go is > another important benefit. There was a time when Cross system products > was the > rage. SHARE reorged and by the next Major it was pretty much dead. Anyway > life and times... > > > In a message dated 7/30/2014 7:26:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Confessions of a first-time SHARE attendee > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
