I agree, ditto Ed and ditto Dan. I think it would be great to have a lot of hands on demonstrations of glass layups, engine building and such. I also dont want to throw water on anyones ideas. I agree forums and hands on displays like you see at Osgosh or Sun N Fun would be great.
But the truth is, none or at least most of us have never put on something like this and I know that Larry has so much work involved in trying to get volunteers and forums set up and the result is a struggle to get participatation. Its one thing to be fired up just after the gathering yet quite another to be there a year later with all gusto and energy you may have had last year at this time. Again, Im all in favor but Im guessing Larry struggles to get people to get involved. Im game, I just dont have the answers that separate todays motivations into next years gathering. Jeff Sent from my HTC smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint! ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ed Janssen" <ejans...@chipsnet.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Subject: KR> RE: Creek Rising List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2012 2:20 pm Dan has a good point. Perhaps we are in some sort of shallow rut with the KR Gathering. We do pretty much the same thing every year (which seems to lean a bit more toward the social aspects) which is especially fun for some but maybe not so much for others. The newbies comments are well taken - maybe we need to re-visit the offering of some hands-on building techniques like we use to do in the past - working with T-88, fiberglass lay-ups, working with foam, "flox", "micro", and finishing composites, etc. Quite a bit of this kind of information is available on short EAA videos, but hands-on experience is often better. I know this would take some extra time, effort and materials - and we certainly shouldn't dump all the extra responsibility on a couple key people. We have lots of experts that have "been there, done that". Could we have some more input on what could be included while planning for next year? I wouldn't categorize the KR Gathering as being even nearly apathetic, but the interest could be waning a bit. So many organizations are feeling like they need to re-charge their batteries. I'm not sure about other EAA Chapters, but the one I attend is down in numbers to about less than half a dozen members regularly attending meetings and other events. No one seems to be willing to put on a demonstration, or even arrange for one. How many kids do you see building model airplanes to fly these days? What are the reasons? Economy? Endless list of choices of entertainment these days? -that draw the young people away from home-building? - TV, i-phones, other electronics? Weather is always a crapshoot, but maybe, like Dan said, we need to at least try changing something. Dr. Phil would ask "How's that working for you?" Ed Janssen -----Original Message----- From: Dan Heath When you continue to have 10 KRs show up at a Gathering, especially one as important at the 40th anniversary, eventually, you would think that people would realize that something ain't right. And what that is, is that the creek ( whatever it is ) is rising. Change something, or expect to get the same results, 10 KRs ( 2 trailered in ), at the Gathering. Pathetic. _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
