CGV Tilburg have announced their special computer meeting of the year will be held on April 23rd, 2005. Usually this would be a reason for all (well, at least all Dutch) MSX users to cheer and look forward to a pleasant meeting with many MSX standholders, new hardware, software and demonstrations of new projects. This year, things seem to have changed quite a bit, though. The announcement of the 2005 meeting no longer mentions the meeting to be the 'largest MSX fair in the world', neither does it look like there will be any standholders at all. With MRC being a regular standholder at the past editions of the fairs, we had to find out about the announcement of the 2005 meeting ourselves.
We decided to contact the CGV by phone, who were surprised we had found out about the announcement in the first place, as they deliberately did not inform standholders of former CGV fairs about it. After the previous 2 editions of Tilburg, they had received several comments from within the community, making them wonder why they even bothered to continue the fair as it was. They decided to drop the international part of the meeting and turned the annual CGV fair in a regular CGV meeting, with this exception that the meeting would be open to anyone who'd like to visit the meeting. With this, the attention completely shifts to potential CGV members living in the vicinity of Tilburg, usually not active within the MSX community at all, focusing on 'building networks, photo-editing, getting to know the internet, word processors and database tools'
This change of direction clearly shows what others had already felt for the past 2 years: The CGV, who once organized truly legendary MSX fairs in Tilburg, have completely lost their interest in MSX. This move highly contradicts with the huge increase of activity of the MSX community we have seen in the same 2 years that have passed and the willingness of organizations like Sunrise and the MRC to see if they could help out on improving the MSX part of the CGV fairs. By this decision, an era of annual MSX fairs in Tilburg has come to an end. Luckily the MSX fairs in Oss (usually held in January) and Bussum (usually held in September) still breathe the MSX spirit and are more than worth paying a visit to.
Relevant link: CGV Tilburg
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