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Donut Dwellers,
Its time for me to really face the facts of things a bit here and fill the
community in on where things sit right now regarding our 25th Anniversary.
Some decisions need to be made, and I feel that to do that I want to share
with you some behind-the-scenes issues and then see what we can come up
with together.
When I first set the date for the event, I was trying to land as close as I
could to when I *think* the switch was actually "pulled" to turn the Gizmo
on for the first time that brought Genesis online. So, that looked like mid-
April 2014 for us to be 25 years old. I set the date, announced some big
ideas, and started doing my monthly updates on progress along the way.
That was about a year and a half ago.
Well, the reality is that I didn't experience a lot of feedback on this.
There were some people who seemed enthusiastic about it, but very little
seemed to materialize outside my own efforts. I think at least half of the
problem is that I didn't properly throw this out to the community to see
how much interest there was, and what it might look like. Rather, I just
announced some big ideas that were going to require a ton of work by
wizards and started acting as if it was all going to happen.
Unfortunately, a lot of our wizards have had a busy year RL. Using myself
as a prime example, I had no idea back then that this was the year in which
I would become a grandfather. That one thing alone has nearly shut down
all sorts of what I'd normally be doing in terms of my leisure time and
hobbies. I've hardly been able to log in and check my Genesis mail for the
last 2 months! (Of course, this hasn't been a bad thing at all. Being a
grand-dad is the bees-knees!) But, this seems to have been the pattern for
numerous wizards, and we just haven't had the workforce to get much pushed
forward from those lofty goals I'd proposed at the outset of the Anniversary
idea.
Long story short, it doesn't make sense to try to celebrate the 25th
Anniversary of Genesis mid-April. We're just not going to have the time to
put anything worthwhile together by then. I've decided that if we want to
do something, and get it done before 2015, that can still count! :-)
But before launching such an effort, I want to back up a bit and see how
much interest there even is in the Genesis Community for such a thing to
happen. This post will make its way shortly to the Official Forum, where
perhaps we can get a good thread discussion off the ground. I'd like to
hear what sort of things people would like to see from such an event. And,
I don't want to tie this event to things like finishing the Balance Recode
any longer, because that is its own effort and shouldn't hold back what
we might want to accomplish here.
So ... what are people's thoughts on this? Genesis is turning 25 this
year. Do we want to celebrate that somehow? How would you want to do that
if you could? :-)
Thanks!
G.