How do I help my area move to districts?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by CalTran

...the way that the document is written comes across to a younger audience as command laden and aggressive. Granted, college students take most things as "aggressive", but that's a different topic

Maybe we should bring that topic to the front. It seems to me that the angry response of a group of people is based on that perception of aggressiveness. I admit to being completely unfamiliar with that group's context, so I have no way to understand their reaction beyond reading the words presented here. With only those words, I can see this situation as kind of a litmus test -- if you believe Minnesota is trying to push you away from volunteering based on what you read into them, your mindset might make you a poor choice for a Key Volunteer position. If I knew more about the reality of the situation (beyond a laundry list of second-hand comments from an anonymous poster), I might have a different impression of what's going on.

Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man

It is a very poorly worded document. I wonder if they even ran it past a couple of college aged students to see what they thought about it. You know, like beta-testing.

It looks like that's exactly what happened:

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

The document was emailed to me and another leader on Bison Robotics last year, I believe right around the time (possibly before) the presentation was given to GOFIRST. Feedback on the document was requested and provided,...

But then the original untested version got "leaked":

...and the document was shown to members of Bison Robotics by myself.

The same thing probably happened with the GOFIRST group. The difference is that people there seem to have thought it was an official directive from the MN FIRST leadership, instead of a draft intended for review and comment.