GoldenRivet
04-27-15, 12:07 PM
I had pitched this idea some years ago, and sort of let is sit by the wayside and slip away. And I'm really not even sure of what level of interest we would have with this but the idea is for SUBSIM members regional meets.
As many of you know, generally we have an annual Subsim meet, depending on location, it is more convenient for some members to attend and unfortunately sometimes impossible for some to attend simply due to the distance or time or even cost of travel. My idea is to have several smaller meets throughout the year, which could occur annually, biannually or even quarterly depending on the level of interest from members in each region. My idea in it's present format is tailored for the United States, but other countries large and small, depending on level of interest of course, could create their own regional groups.
Of course none of the meets would be scheduled to interfere with the official annual subsim meet if one were to be held. another neat touch to this idea is that each region would "host" the "official annual subsim meet" each year that the meet took place within the USA. for example: if the 2016 subsim meet were in Panama City, Florida... the southeast region group would serve as a sort of host able to recommend good hotels, make reservations at dining, coordinate events locally on behalf of the overal subsim group, and some may even be willing to open their homes for the day for a cookout etc
The first thing that would need to happen would be to divide the United States into "regions". I have taken the liberty of drawing up just such a map as an example:
http://s23.postimg.org/u1rsdn6gb/subsim_map.png
The second thing that would have to happen is for either a sub-forum would have to be created for each region OR one sub-forum created called "Regional Meets" with a sticky thread to be created for each region or some other means for the members within said regions to communicate and coordinate meets and activities.
Finally, the members of the group, once settled in would have to put their heads together and nominate a few members from each region to serve as a sort of coordinator which would be responsible for coordinating the events that the group comes up with for meets or events.
Each member could pitch an idea, such as a tour of a maritime museum or a museum ship in their region (and if none, perhaps a military themed museum or a camp out, or a trip to an amusement park - whatever) then using the forum poll tool, they could vote for the one they would most like to participate in and all agree on a date and time - there is your event! Following each event, members could post images to their individual threads to show the kinds of things our regionals are out doing and being involved in, and it could even provide for some fodder for the Subsim News page
the purpose of course of this is so that members who may not be able to easily travel from one side of the country to the other for the annual meet will still have a smaller regional meet they would be more likely able to attend.
so... with all of that said, what level of interest would folks have in helping to get such a thing off the ground?
:yeah:
As many of you know, generally we have an annual Subsim meet, depending on location, it is more convenient for some members to attend and unfortunately sometimes impossible for some to attend simply due to the distance or time or even cost of travel. My idea is to have several smaller meets throughout the year, which could occur annually, biannually or even quarterly depending on the level of interest from members in each region. My idea in it's present format is tailored for the United States, but other countries large and small, depending on level of interest of course, could create their own regional groups.
Of course none of the meets would be scheduled to interfere with the official annual subsim meet if one were to be held. another neat touch to this idea is that each region would "host" the "official annual subsim meet" each year that the meet took place within the USA. for example: if the 2016 subsim meet were in Panama City, Florida... the southeast region group would serve as a sort of host able to recommend good hotels, make reservations at dining, coordinate events locally on behalf of the overal subsim group, and some may even be willing to open their homes for the day for a cookout etc
The first thing that would need to happen would be to divide the United States into "regions". I have taken the liberty of drawing up just such a map as an example:
http://s23.postimg.org/u1rsdn6gb/subsim_map.png
The second thing that would have to happen is for either a sub-forum would have to be created for each region OR one sub-forum created called "Regional Meets" with a sticky thread to be created for each region or some other means for the members within said regions to communicate and coordinate meets and activities.
Finally, the members of the group, once settled in would have to put their heads together and nominate a few members from each region to serve as a sort of coordinator which would be responsible for coordinating the events that the group comes up with for meets or events.
Each member could pitch an idea, such as a tour of a maritime museum or a museum ship in their region (and if none, perhaps a military themed museum or a camp out, or a trip to an amusement park - whatever) then using the forum poll tool, they could vote for the one they would most like to participate in and all agree on a date and time - there is your event! Following each event, members could post images to their individual threads to show the kinds of things our regionals are out doing and being involved in, and it could even provide for some fodder for the Subsim News page
the purpose of course of this is so that members who may not be able to easily travel from one side of the country to the other for the annual meet will still have a smaller regional meet they would be more likely able to attend.
so... with all of that said, what level of interest would folks have in helping to get such a thing off the ground?
:yeah: