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Re: n.e.r.d. vision feedback

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Originally Posted by Adam Richards
The argument that it seems many people have against the organization is that many respected, known people in the New England area weren't added into N.E.R.D., solely because they weren't "in the circle of friends of Andy Grady" (I won't cite who said this, they want to remain anonymous).
Listen, Adam, I appreciate your comments, and with all due respect I have answered every single one of your statements in previous posts and it aggrivates the heck outa me that people keep going back to them. The quoted statement in particular really gets to me because everyone assumes that these people that were given shirts were personal friends. Fact of the matter is, most of those who are currently NERDS are people who just simply came up to me and asked to be a part of NERD at the right time. Many were also people that I JUST MET and impressed me with their dedication to the program and I felt they could help the cause. IT WAS NOT A POPULARITY CONTEST AND IT WAS NOT MY CIRCLE OF FRIENDS. As I have said before, we may have went about things the wrong way by making it seem like we were elitist...but I did it the way I did it so that we could get the attention of the FIRST community...and it sure as heck worked. Because of all the attention...I managed to get many people (well over 50 now) involved with NERD. And we are continuing to grow (with many NERDS not even having shirts) and will continue to do so.

I wonder if instead of handing out shirts, and calling the group NERD, we just called ourselves New England FIRST and invited certain people to make a group, whether or not we would have got the same attention. I think thats what Art's main point was in his post.

I appologize if I sound harsh or defensive in this post, but this has been a sore subject that we have been working hard to try to eliminate with our efforts. If you could see how much the members of NERD want to show people within FIRST that we do not intend to be "elitist", no one would give us any grief. That is genuine, that is the truth, and that is the end of it.

Outside of NERD Vision, our efforts in NERD will now be silent to all of those in these boards. We will work on improving our region and ideas in a quiet and non-intrusive manner so that no one will be offended anymore. I appologize for causing so much trouble to all of you.



As for the comments about NERD Vision...

We are definately understanding the idea that you want to see more inlays and such. We are going to work on finding a balanced way of doing so, plus adding alot of the segments that Adam and Joe mentioned. We are still in our baby phase and hopefully as we get more accustomed to doing this show, we can throw in all kinds of little neat tricks and such. We are about you the viewer and we hope to make this a show that can be very cool for everyone to enjoy!
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