009 Society Competition 2019

[Graeme Dunbar]

Has this been announced on this forum? I've searched and have not found it. I checked Events and Announcements - nothing there.

It was posted on the Narrow Gauge Online forum yesterday, so I would have expected to see it here first, even if it is not due to appear in the 009 Society News for a while.
http://ngrm-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/23423-2019-009-society-competition/

Also this Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Games-Toys/009-from-Norfolk-Heath-Works-1921933588084096/

I can't see anything on the 009 Society Facebook page about it either.

[Jim Flynn]

Graeme,

Maybe the fact that not one person has responded in the 24 hrs since you asked could be part of why it was not posted here.

Granted, it would not be a chore to do the announcement here. But of the 3 locations, traffic here is minimal.

Jim F

[Hobby]

Yet we are told they want to encourage more use of the Forum... ;)

[Ian Jopson]

Currently pondering a suitable subject, but really should crack on with my 'proper' layout.

[Stan Williams]

It would help if more society committee members past and present used this forum and encouraged society members to get more involved.

It would certainly remove the feeling that this forum is more of a hinderance than an advantage to the society ?

Stan.

[MickT]

Well said Stan.

[Graeme Dunbar]

I appreciate the desire to publish information about the competition online rather than wait for the "official announcement" (?) in the 009 Society News as word is likely to get around anyway and it is better to stifle rumours. Even that an announcement in Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling Online is made for those reasons and to drum up interest in the Society, but "ordinary" members seem able to publish updates on their layouts (and so on) here and there almost simultaneously.

My apologies if those updating the Announcements and the Exhibitions and Events are indisposed, but it might be hoped that copy had got to them and been published by now.

[Tom Haythornthwaite]

I would really have expected any OO9 Society competition to be announced here on the OO9 Society forum.  We may not have the largest readership but some people like me don't normally read anywhere else.

[andy1878]

Maybe the fact that not one person has responded in the 24 hrs since you asked could be part of why it was not posted here.

Granted, it would not be a chore to do the announcement here. But of the 3 locations, traffic here is minimal.

Maybe it was announced knowing a few of us may have been at Narrow Gauge North!

I read Graeme's post on Saturday evening, disappointment held me back from replying.

I think that posting elsewhere first is akin to Peco announcing a new initiative in Rail before RM. I guess RM readers wouldn't be to impressed to find out secondhand.

Its more than 48 hours since Greame's post and as far as I can see: diddly squat.

Andy

PS wont be entering the competition.

[JulienW]

Unfortunately one needs to be a member of NGRM Online to see the link properly...

So rather than complain about it I thought I'd actually do something constructive.

Copied from Chris' post on NGRM-Online

A quick heads up for those on here. I'm just dropping this into the May News. Fairly simple and self explanatory. A photo and NHW's ad accompany on the page in question.

Well, after the rip-roaring success of the railcar competition, the Directors have agreed to have a whip round for the cost of another subscription (is there no end to their generosity?) and I can announce that another piece of competitive jollity is about to be launched. Nothing startling, but again something to get people building and to give the 009 Society a plug -  a micro project.
Stuart Hughes has agreed to run a package deal for the baseboards at

[Stan Williams]

That is very chivalrous of you Julian to do a committee job.

I note this morning on the ngrm that there has been  53 replies and 1026 views on the competition on the ngrm, including you.

I will ask you a question,
Do you believe the society forum should be the place for the above and the society should encourage society members to use the forum ?

I like Chris., and I think he is doing a great job with the news, but I think he has made an error with this, but then again, he may have been advised
to use the other forum ?

Stan.

[Hobby]

That's a bit of a stirrer of a post, Stan. It's irrelevant what Julien thinks, he's not a Director but an ordinary member like us. I suspect, like everyone else, he does not feel he should have had to post that post, but in view of inaction by those who should he has done to the benefit of all of us.

The AGM is coming up soon and you'll be able to have your say at that, though I'll lay odds that it'll never get raised because no-one can be bothered. A challenge for you there, Stan, as you feel so strongly about it!

Let's leave the politics at that for now, it's bad enough with Brexit at the moment without politics coming onto here. Hopefully we'll be getting a new Chairman at the AGM who will shake things up and we'll see some changes.



This thread is about the Competition, not about Society Politics, perhaps time to go back to the Competition?

[cp.409067]

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Although I regard Chris Ford as a good friend, there are times when we seriously disagree about certain matters. In this instance I would observe as follows regarding this forum.

[1]   Towards the end of last year, in the role of our worthy News Editor, Chris caused something of a stir by posting in a deliberately provocative manner.

[2]   Now he has caused a stir by posting nothing at all.

This is quite an achievement. Perhaps the remark of Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapter 1) is appropriate:

[JulienW]

I was going to say much the same thing myself CP...

[Hobby]

It's either "provoking a reaction" or "damned if he does or damned if he doesn't" - make your own mind which one! ;)


Competition discussion, anyone?!