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<p>Peter,</p>
<p>With all respect, I'm unsure why you're still here if BITS is so
great. Surely with all their offerings they have enough to keep
you all (given the plural "our") busy? Not every organization
needs to be like, or function like ACB organizations. I would love
to see more action within NFBCS as a whole in terms of resolving
barriers, but there are people within NFB doing that work.</p>
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<p>My suggestion to you is to be the change you want to see. Run for
a position in the organization, offer trainings, volunteer to do
something in the NFBCS community. It's easy to complain, and much
harder to do something constructive, but without that action, the
change you want to see is less likely to happen.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/29/2025 8:29 PM, Peter via NFBCS
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Good
evening,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If
you asked me holding an annual meeting and a seminar now and
then is not enough to justify continued membership in this
organization. The Blindness Information and Technology
Specialists, (BITS) the ACB’s equivalent can
run circles around the NFBCS any day unless something
changes. For starters unlike the NFBCS BITS has it’s own <a
href="%0dWebsite:%20https:/bits-acb.org%0d"
moz-do-not-send="true"><o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a
href="%0dWebsite:%20https:/bits-acb.org%0d"
moz-do-not-send="true">Website: https://bits-acb.org<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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This is just for starters. They have numerous
technology-related discussion groups, produce a number of
technology-related podcasts, and conduct online classes
teaching such subjects like learning Microsoft 365 a course
that was very well-done. They’re preparing to offer a
6-month course on HTML, Markdown, Website design and
management and the use of Word Press. They plan to offer a
Python course later this year And they do all that for
$10.00 annual membership dues. The rest comes from donations
and funds raised via the BITS Store. Where’s the NFBCS
Store? They do all of that with fewer resources than what
the NFB and the NFBCS have at their disposal. .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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If the NFBCS wishes to grow it needs to increase its
offerings to members and conduct activities making it worth
one’s participation. It’s our hope that the NFBCS will elect
leadership that will take serious actions to increase this
organization’s footprint in the blind community and to make
it an organization all can be proud to be a member of. All
the best.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Peter
Donahue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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