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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
Message-ID: <2558.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 30 Mar 91 03:12:31 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Message 135       Thu Mar 28, 1991
ATFURMAN [Alan F.]           at 19:08 PST
 
Phil Koopman writes:

 > After 5 years as a member of FIG...I have decided not to renew my
 > membership....As a disenfranchised, lowly FIG rank-and-file member I
 > can think of only one course of action to follow.

Oh yeah?  Well, I can think of another: get a debate going right here on
ForthNet.  State your objections and what you think should happen, and back it
up by saying that you WILL take your money and your reputation in the Forth
community and go home IF things do not get solved.

This medium allows FIG members outside the range of the FIG business meetings
held in the Bay Area to comminicate with the leadership, and to be counted as
wanting to see a change.  In other words, state your case and challenge fellow
members who agree with you to Speak Up.  Those who fail to use this medium are
throwing the opportunity away.

Jack Woehr tried to make up for this apathy by turning up the hysteria in his
campaign for financial disclosure.  Instead, let the leadership learn that the
disaffection is real (people WILL quit) and they will realize that they could
have worse problems on their hands (especially the financial kind).  Gorbachev
was not the first to adopt glasnost as a last resort, nor will he be the
last...

Your post in the "Feedback to the Forth Interest Group" topic on GEnie was
message #130.  This is less, on average, than one message per week in >3
years!  Use it or lose it, people.

Please consider staying in FIG for another year.

Alan T. Furman Founding member, SIGForth
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