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Originally posted by Brad Roberts
How did I steal something that I came up with? I still have all the hand written notes from our meetings.. I'll gladly share with you. Glenn/Randy/Doug couldnt decide what to do or when to do it. I jumped. I wasnt going to sit back and "talk" about it until I was blue in the face. I actually did something (rare, I know)
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I'm probably setting myself up for chiming in on this thread, but since I was at those meetings I feeling the need to speak up. I’d like to first mention that I'm really over what happened, but now I feel like I have to set the record straight as I don’t feel that Brad is being completely clear on how the takeover of the 914club site was handled.
The four of us met in person and put a rough game plan together. Glenn Stazak and Dug Wright had put the backend of the early site together, I worked on the graphic bits and Brad registered the 914club.com domain name. I think Brad was also going to try and find some sponsorship, but I can’t remember for sure. What I do remember though is that I had volunteered to register the name myself, being that I worked for an ISP and would have been able to host the domain and site for free. Once the classifieds were back up, we (including Brad) stopped nearly dead in our tracks. The classifieds work and we hadn’t met as a group to discuss where we should go next.
Brad, it wasn't until I contacted you about renewing the site’s registration did you *harshly* announce that you had your own team of web people and we weren't needed any longer. We were blown away. It's true that you owned the domain name, but we were a team and blatantly stole the project away from us. The outcome would have been a lot different had you communicated your ideas openly with the rest of the group, or went out and got your own unique domain name. The idea for 914club.com was something that Dug and I came up and you first heard about it at the meeting. You burned a handful of bridges for quite a while with that stunt.
It really is water under the bridge, but this is going to keep resurfacing as long as the story is told in a warped fashion.
Again, I’m really happy that the 914club has gathered up the 914 masses and has created such an interesting, tight-knit web community. That, along with advertising money to keep the site moving (haha), was all the four of us ever really wanted. Oh, and we wanted to attend the official Porsche Club meeting in Germany. But that was really just a sideline desire.
I don’t think I’ve left anything out, other than Barbara, but that’s a story in itself.
Randy