Club Member Agreement

Dedicated, active members and meaningful work are the essential ingredients for success of the VC3. We intend that members receive significant and growing value from your participation with the club. What you get out of the club depends largely on what you put into it. Enjoy the club’s fellowship, enrich your professional and personal knowledge, and meet other technology enthusiasts. This membership agreement is designed to help members more fully participate in, enjoy and share your club experience.

Responsibilities of Club Members include the following:

Be a loyal supporter of the Vintage Communications and Computing Club

• Support the club financially and through program participation.
• Attend meetings and events regularly; no one can “grumble” if not in attendance.
• Participate: communicate, make your voice heard; reply to surveys, vote. Your thoughts and contributions are appreciated and make a difference.
• Get personally involved. Try to inject a warm, personal note in club work. Blend gentleness with firmness when taking a stand.
• Keep the purpose of the club in mind. If certain goals or methods appear to be outmoded, take the necessary steps to update them.
• Prepare for each meeting if you are presenting. Contribute to the conversation. Help ensure meetings are enjoyable and productive.
• Conserve the club’s financial resources. Keep expenses under control and identify and call out waste or mismanagement of funds.

Help build a strong and growing membership for the VC3

• Help sustain and increase the membership base of the club. Be on the lookout for potential candidates to join, and encourage friends and associates.
• Create an inclusive environment. Composition of our club should reflect the community’s diverse demographics, professions, genders, ages, and ethnicities to enrich every aspect of fellowship and service.
• Help develop new leaders to maintain the club into the future.

Be a loyal supporter of the Museum of Information Explosion

• Promote the museum mission. Know and relate the MIE story and invite guests to visit.
• Help spread the value of VC3 and MIE, and build the resources to sustain the organizations for future generations.

Care for our facility

• Pick up trash & clean up after work sessions; leave the building cleaner than you found it.
• Report items that need repair.
• Be available for occasional work parties.

Assist in preparing items for display

• Ensure each item is safe.
• Help clean and repair items; spray to get rid of insects & spiders.

Consider serving as a docent for museum tours

• Choose an area in which to become an informed technologist.
• Give presentations on research subjects and relevant exhibit topics.
• Write short papers that can be used as subject matter for the museum.
• Research the history of MIE technology domains and offer materials and suggestions to improve the museum presentations and exhibits.
• Participate in service projects that benefit our community.

Consider assisting with design, build and maintenance of MIE “experiments” and demos

• Suggest engaging, entertaining and educational “hands-on” ways to explain or illustrate key technology concepts.
• Help design, build and test experiments and displays.
• Participate in maintenance and improvement projects.

Use and improve the work benches and test equipment, which is available for club use

• Report any items not working or missing.
• Help to replace or repair tools and supplies.
• Ensure power is off to all equipment after use.
• Reimburse the club for supplies used on projects (tubes, transformers, speakers, etc.

Demonstrate service and accountability to the group

• Keep a sense of humor. Don’t take yourself too seriously or others not seriously enough.
• Promote a spirit of teamwork; avoid uncooperative or hostile cliques.
• Resolve differences. Be a peacemaker when misunderstandings, disputes and clashes arise; help to clear the air by seeking a peaceful accord.
• Respect other club members. Give others appreciation and cooperation.
• Think for yourself and be creative in solving problems; avoid being a perennial “yes” or “no” member.
• Give credit where credit is due. Don’t be first in line when it comes to taking a bow for a project but nowhere to be seen in the midst of responsibility.
• Encourage others: Be an inspiration and demonstrate positivity and support for other members. Don’t hesitate to praise fellow members for a job well done.