Other than folks generally lamenting the situation there are quite a few who seem to have their knickers in a twist.

There are a number of people who seem to need PR training, or basic human decency training in relation to this topic. The original post, and this one were very civl and dry (here's my story with plain delivery). The responses being so... charged is not not a good look. It makes the groups and people responding look, well, like assholes, to be blunt about it.

If your running a "vintage computer festival" you might want to change your name based on the behavior of other people speaking on behalf of their VCF...