Has the Layout Design Special Interest Group folded? It hasn’t put out its quarterly Journal for over sixteen months now, and multiple e-mails (via its internal e-mail system) to each of its officers over the past five months have gone unanswered. [:(]
NOTE: For clarity and the full picture, I’ve added below my detailed reply to a member on another forum who noted - as did I months ago - that the terms for the board of directors (BOD) cited on the SIG website are outdated. Here’s the full text.
But if you look around a bit you’ll see BOD names and term expiry dates between 2016-2018 and promotions for its participation at the NMRA convention this August. I also found a name and address for another officer on the website and just today located his landline phone number. However, when I called (four times now), I got a recorded message saying “The call did not go through.” Three calls for assistance to my phone company and the operator only led to them dialing that number and hanging up before I could relate the failure of those calls to go through and get an answer as to why.
But last October, I did receive a reply (to my AOL e-mail: see below) from, as I recall, the president. He told me that the Journal was delayed due to health problems and that the next issu
The home page of their website has content relating to their presence at this summer’s NMRA national in K.C.
Note that it also has a help wanted section – sounds like a relatively few folks do most of the heavy lifting. Not uncommon with volunteer and special interest groups.
The Layout Design SIG is indeed alive and well. Sorry for the delay in publishing the Layout Design Journal. As the sole editor, most of that is on me and a crazy year that my family experienced. The next issue (#61) is at the printer now. Mailings have been unfortunately further delayed due to a transition in volunteers. When long time volunteers retire, most organizations must scramble to find replacements. But the new team is coming up to speed.
The LDSIG is also working on an update to the website for later this year. Again, due to the need for volunteers, this has gone more slowly than hoped.
LDJ-62 will follow in the late Summer, and then we hope to be back on a more regular schedule.
LDJ-61 contains the delayed election ballot for Board of Directors seats expiring in 2017. The 2018 election will be found in LDJ-63 (in the Fall).