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in4aride

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So as there is a nomination.thread open for president i feel there should be a place to pose questions and concerns about the chapter. the position. or the nominees.
 
My concern is the serious lack of people willing to run.

Otherwise I post this up:

1) Do you feel that we as a "Local" Chapter should make strides to become more of a club?

2) What are your plans for getting people to actually show up to events?

3) Should we secede for the National?

4) What are your plans for keeping CO Fest alive despite the continuous economic down turn and general lack of participation from members?

5) Will you still love me if I sell the XJ for a Nissan Frontier Crew Cab Long Bed? :D
 
no questions?
no concerns?
no gripes?
no bashing? :D

Seriously though, this is the time to throw it all out there.
 
Oh, so now we are excluding the concerns of the Dutch are we???

Dutch Hater
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I would be more willing to help dutch, but I am not yet an adult and the BOD wont be happy with that. I think the BOD is only the structure and its the members that make everything work good so I dont really care who is pres but answer dutch's questions the two of ya and I will listen
 
My concern is the serious lack of people willing to run.
I agree, it is interesting the general lack of interest. But I also think it shows that the guys that have been here forever are wanting to hand things over to the younger crowd to make the next move.
Otherwise I post this up:

1) Do you feel that we as a "Local" Chapter should make strides to become more of a club?

I think we do need to make ourselves known more. Both in the 4wheeling community, as well as those specific to the XJ world. I think this involves finding ways to not just donate money to land use groups, but to actually GET OUT there as a group.

2) What are your plans for getting people to actually show up to events?

Well I think we are on track to those kinds of things in the forum, we just dont realize it. Just because this is based on XJ's doesnt mean that is all we do. Between us, there is a large liking for beers, wings/food (gluten free :D ) and shooting. Why do we have to go to sit all primped and proper for a meet n greet? Why not make it liek we are kids again? - getting together to do what we like. Just cuz most of us will show up on a huffy doesnt mean we have to hang out at the bike shop.....

3) Should we secede for the National?

As far as naxja? No. I think there are a great few guys that are gonna be taking the reigns and that things will be less tense as a lot of the faces are/will be new. It is kind of a fresh start for a lot of places.

4) What are your plans for keeping CO Fest alive despite the continuous economic down turn and general lack of participation from members?

We are kind of spoiled in colorado. We have a ton of places to wheel and feel going to the same places every year is just BORING! I get that. But we have to realize that other chapters go to the only place they can go to the rest of the year too lol.
Thinking back to this last year I saw some things that I feel should change and would love a lot of input on. Mostly about the time spent at camp/base.
Plus after the fact I think it would be great to have a series of little 'awards' to give out at later meet n greets (thus drawing some more participation if for nothing else than to grab your prize) Things for like:
-best line
-best wreck/damage
-biggest fish caught (cuz CoFest isnt about wheeling to everyone)
-etc.

5) Will you still love me if I sell the XJ for a Nissan Frontier Crew Cab Long Bed? :D
Not at all, aside form being jealous, the nissan line of trucks/suv's is getting better and better. Grandpa in denver just got the new pro4x 4door. SOOOO nice. More power than my dodge too im pretty sure, bastard.
 
I think the lack of interest is pretty cut and dry to me. The older folks on this site simply don't have the time in their busy lives to step into a BOD position. I for one would love to help spice things up around here and get everyone to come together more as a club rather than just a website to BS on. But....I simply do not have the time. My business, being a husband, being a father, side jobs, kid activities, etc....my nights and weekends are booked months in advance. Working 60-70 hours a week, plus my other obligations, it just doesn't leave me time to be able to commit to a position that I know I cannot give it my all!

2) What are your plans for getting people to actually show up to events?

Well I think we are on track to those kinds of things in the forum, we just dont realize it. Just because this is based on XJ's doesnt mean that is all we do. Between us, there is a large liking for beers, wings/food (gluten free ) and shooting. Why do we have to go to sit all primped and proper for a meet n greet? Why not make it liek we are kids again? - getting together to do what we like. Just cuz most of us will show up on a huffy doesnt mean we have to hang out at the bike shop.....

I think some young blood in the mix would definitely be a step in the right direction. Someone that doesn't have a great deal of commitments on nights and weekends, and someone that has the drive and ambition to get out there and try to make changes to get these M&G's to happen.

It seems like for awhile Cody was doing a fine job at trying to setup some M&G's. It all seemed to fizzle out when people started complaining about it being at the same location every time. Honestly....who cares? The fact that people were showing up is all that matters, and that the location ( Culvers I believe ) was very open to having the M&G there.

I think that a place needs to be found that:

A.) Is open and willing to support a gathering of Jeep guys on numerous occassions
B.) Has the room outside in a parking lot to gather everyone's rigs together
C.) Has a banquet room, or a corner of the restaurant that they'd be willing to block off for everyone to gather around.

I think picking a spot and sticking with it is the key to success. Get to know the owner & staff by showing them repeated business. It is always nice to know people by name and feel at home. Instead, trying to pick a new place every time leaves a lot of options & opinions out there for people to argue about. All that does is create frustration for whoever is attempting to get it organized.

Also try to do it more often than not. Try and schedule 2 different times during the month. One time on a weeknight for those folks that have busy weekends, and one on a weekend for those who work late or have kids in school. The bad part about having only one is the huge span of schedule conflicts. If you can make it to both awesome, if not, you have 2 different times to try and make it work.

Pick a time and stick with it....the same for every month. Just for example...Hooters on the first Tuesday of the month @7:30pm and Hooters on the 3rd Saturday of the month at 3:00pm. Set those times in stone that way everyone knows and there is no confusion.

Anyway those are just a few ideas I had........not the best, but ideas never hurt!
 
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I totally dig what you are saying. I agree in consistency and just making it happen. I was thinking like an old chicago night or something like you said.

While hooters tends to be a great place I do realize that people try and bring families or they are female, or just not fond of that scene so trying to respect that. Granted you can never please everyone it isnt gonna happen. But something a bit more neutral is a good idea IMO.

I like the two time frames a month thing. Was even considering making it a challenge between the areas. National sees who can get the most new members during member drive month. What about seeing if springs, west slope, denver ,etc can get the most succesfull meet n greets, new folks on board. People dont stick around these forums cuz its a forum. Look at jeepforum, good amount of tech and posts, but for the most part the people suck, so not a lot of people over there that are real close. Getting people together often, over food or beers, or pool, whatever, creates the good environment you want to be around. Knowing you can hit up anyone in the area and get help here is awesome. And I think thats what attracts people to here. we need to build.


but as i ramble. I totally dig it and agree :thumbup:
 
I totally dig what you are saying. I agree in consistency and just making it happen. I was thinking like an old chicago night or something like you said.

While hooters tends to be a great place I do realize that people try and bring families or they are female, or just not fond of that scene so trying to respect that. Granted you can never please everyone it isnt gonna happen. But something a bit more neutral is a good idea IMO.

I agree, I just used Hooters as an example since that is where the last M&G was. Family friendly is definitely as must!
 
I like the two time frames a month thing. Was even considering making it a challenge between the areas. National sees who can get the most new members during member drive month. What about seeing if springs, west slope, denver ,etc can get the most succesfull meet n greets, new folks on board. People dont stick around these forums cuz its a forum. Look at jeepforum, good amount of tech and posts, but for the most part the people suck, so not a lot of people over there that are real close. Getting people together often, over food or beers, or pool, whatever, creates the good environment you want to be around. Knowing you can hit up anyone in the area and get help here is awesome. And I think thats what attracts people to here. we need to build.


I really like the idea that someone said a week or so ago about building a template for NAXJA business cards to hand out or stick under windshield wipers of fellow XJ/MJ/WJ guys. Doesn't have to be anything special, just something with the website and a friendly welcome to join invite.
 
I agree a lot on what you're saying as far as quasi-standardizing the what/when/where of MnG's. When I was much heavier into VW's I was in Edition719 down in the Springs and then MetroDubs up in Denver. In Edition719 we met up every saturday at the Old C's on N Academy Blvd at 6pm. Every Saturday. Did everybody alwys show up? No, but there was always people there. After people showed up we would decide to either go into Old C's to eat and hang out or to convoy to another location, usually Pike's Pizza.

Same thing with MetroDubs, we met up at the Red Robin on I-76 and Wadsworth every Saturday night for a long time. Then either go in and eat or convoy somewhere else. And yes, I get that our VW's got a lot better fuel economy than our XJ's. On the other hand though is a bunch of lowered cars can pretty much only gather together to drive around, hang out in a parking lot, or go somewhere to eat. Actually in both forums there were those of us that got together to go wheeling in our various wheeling rigs.

I also don't understand why Culver's suddenly became a big issue. I guess if you already go there to eat every day then it would get old, but then I would also figure your arteries would be long clogged and you'd be dead by now.There is no reason we couldn't regular gatherings. Have one here in the Longmont or Loveland area and the other in the Castle Rock or North CO Springs area. Those seem like good mid points between Denver and us northerners or between Denver and the southerners. We could always change it up every once in a while and have one in Denver too. Still, have the Northern one in the beginning of the month and the southern one towards the end. As the area are between the major population points even those that couldn't make the meet up close to them, the other one shouldn't be too far away to try to make.

I know I'm excluding the western slope crowd here, and I apologize. This is just off the top of my head here.
 
I like the two time frames a month thing. Was even considering making it a challenge between the areas. National sees who can get the most new members during member drive month. What about seeing if springs, west slope, denver ,etc can get the most succesfull meet n greets, new folks on board.

People dont stick around these forums cuz its a forum. Look at jeepforum, good amount of tech and posts, but for the most part the people suck, so not a lot of people over there that are real close. Getting people together often, over food or beers, or pool, whatever, creates the good environment you want to be around. Knowing you can hit up anyone in the area and get help here is awesome. And I think thats what attracts people to here.

A great idea

I agree
 
We definitely need to go back to Lost Coffee. Fresh Donuts!! Not to mention we already have a relationship with the owner. Help JohnJohn find an MJ, he's in the market.
 
JJ's not looking hard enough..... There are quite a few out there.

However.... I imagine he wants something specific. If I knew his list of what he wants in an MJ I could find it..... Unless its a '91-'92 4.0 4x4 with an auto for Under $2K....... Then it's hens teeth. ;)
 
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