Open discussion sounds great! Anybody feel like putting down some "talking points" ?
Here are the subjects that I feel would be good to address:
1) Secondary (informal) meetings that have no real bearing on the club other than to have fun and "get to know others". Not dealing with anything that would affect the usual running of the club. Just a get together.
2) Having a thread started that deals with the upcoming meeting and its topic/speaker so we can pose questions, or discuss the pending events.
3) Trying to plan out our topic/speakers in advance. (such as PMASI has the year planned out very early)
4) Coral of the month. This could be something that is done between a few members if it is thought to be too much for the club to handle. I thought it was an awesome idea to go in on a large, expensive colony and frag it for each person interested in taking some home. We could gather a nice collection of frags for ourselves for relatively little money if we had 10 guys go in on a $150 colony.
5) The Christmas party seemed to be a great event with everyone's families showing up. We could plan a club get together that is during the day and all family members are invited. Something like a picnic, a day at a Cleveland attraction like the Rock hall, Metroparks or even a day at Cedar Point or Geauga Lake.
6) Tank tours... There were some people who were willing to open their homes to others for a tour of their tanks and equipment during the winter. After talking with some of them, it seems that there was much confusion and not much organization in the days leading up to the tours. One member told me that they were not even sure until hours before the scheduled tour if there were people even coming to their house. I think it would be great to have a sign up sheet for people willing to host a viewing and maybe do one per month.
7) 12 scheduled monthly meetings per year. I am not sure why there are a couple months that have no meeting during the summer months. I assume it is due to the fact that people have busy lives and take family vacations during the summer break. I am pretty sure that we have enough members at this point that would like to have a meeting every month and would show up for it. Even if there is a scheduling conflict with some of the board members I think there are people who can pick up the slack and help things run smoothly.
These are just a few of the thoughts that come to mind when I think of the direction I would like to see the club headed. If my thoughts are not in line with what others feel then please let us all know how you feel. Maybe there are ideas that I would like better than the ones I mentioned so far and I just haven't heard them yet.
I have met some great people through the club and would like to have more interaction amongst them.
I guess that is more than my 2 cents this time.
-- Kevin
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