No guilt, just the facts. Consider it a wake up call to some Amiga users who think it is still okay to just sit on the sidelines and hope the community will maintain it's number of users, or grow on it's own without their efforts.
This community continues to lose users, vendors and programmers and if more of the remaining users do not do more to help the few remaining vendors, programmers and events when they can, those people and/or events will cease to be part of this community and the community itself will one day cease to exist.
If you can't attend AmiWest, at least do something else that helps maintain, or grow this tiny community. Those who can attend AmiWest Shows, should make more of an effort to be here.
P.S. I don't consider sarcasm to be helping this community in any way, but you may think it is entertaining.
What a strange grouping of passive aggressive comments, sorry. I applaud everything you, and other guys in users groups do to "keep the dream alive", and I also understand how much work you guys put in. There's more to "the community" than shows, and A.org is the epitome of that - warts and all.
Truth is, our hobby revolves around computers that quit being made nearly 20 years ago. For many of us in this economy, there's 2 choices: go to Amiwest, or keep your kids fed and try and help the community remotely from the web if you can in any small form. This isn't '94 anymore, people have responsibilities.
It's a hobby, we all do what we can, have fun with it how we can. I just found the weird guilt laden statements awfully offputting.
I guess it's a wake up call to me in the fact I'd never want to deal with any event with attitudes like this.
