I was here from the very beginning at the event drtodd mentioned, in fact I seem to recall that I started the thread for the very first meet up in Brighton in december of 2007, and it was Brian that set the date and time. Mastiff and his wife also came. Brian spoke there of creating this organization and structuring it very much like it has turned out.
From then on, other than while I lived out of the state for 6 months in 2008, a core group of us who essentially founded MOC organized and worked on a lot of stuff. Although we did many things on our own and it worked fine, it became rather apparent that a formal organizational structure was helpful for being taken more seriously by the police and public, a very important consideration when it seemed like we were being bombarded by endless police harassment and a fair amount of malicious prosecution, and thus MOC pretty much had to happen. The primary end of my participation with MOC was the end of the time Jeff Sayers was running the ship, at which time I attended many more MOC events and did several solo projects before leaving the state again, that time for almost a year and a half. Since then, there is as phil put it, history. Some of it ugly. I am hoping there is a brighter future ahead with me and MOC than the past several years, though that remains to be seen.
