Erik
NAXJA Forum User
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- With Betty
What do you want out of a NW Chapter? Everyone seems to have their own idea, but I haven’t seen any visions articulated here. Is it a social corner for lite chat? A place to meet people, and maybe forge new friendships? A dating service? A place to organize trail runs? Discus land use issues or promote political change? Your own private clique where anarchists and funny lookin’ people need not apply? A place to display your wit and wisdom, maybe start a couple of flame wars?
I see the NW chapter as primarily a place to organize local trail runs. Some OT social chatter is good and healthy by helping to keep traffic flowing. already has Tech Forums, but sometimes a person may prefer to recruit local help for a project or problem. We may at some point want to tackle local land use issue, which again has it’s own forum.
Now we find ourselves stuck in a position where we have a lot of people, who don’t really know each other, divided by fairly long distances. For this Forum to be successful, we need to build some friendships here. And that just plain takes time. For the moment, I’d like to drop the rush to elect a BOD, and just concentrate on getting a few trail rides together, and maybe some meet ‘n greets. I’d like to see us open up the conversations a bit. Allow people to post trail runs or a few OT posts. I’d really like people to feel free to speak their mind, without have to worry about getting shot down. I’d like this to be an inclusive group with newbies, AARP’ers, students, families, posers, drunks, rednecks, Christians, maybe even a few hot lesbians. The important thing is just to get some conversation going here. I have a few ideas for starting some regular trail runs, but for the moment I’d like to hear from the rest of you.
I see the NW chapter as primarily a place to organize local trail runs. Some OT social chatter is good and healthy by helping to keep traffic flowing. already has Tech Forums, but sometimes a person may prefer to recruit local help for a project or problem. We may at some point want to tackle local land use issue, which again has it’s own forum.
Now we find ourselves stuck in a position where we have a lot of people, who don’t really know each other, divided by fairly long distances. For this Forum to be successful, we need to build some friendships here. And that just plain takes time. For the moment, I’d like to drop the rush to elect a BOD, and just concentrate on getting a few trail rides together, and maybe some meet ‘n greets. I’d like to see us open up the conversations a bit. Allow people to post trail runs or a few OT posts. I’d really like people to feel free to speak their mind, without have to worry about getting shot down. I’d like this to be an inclusive group with newbies, AARP’ers, students, families, posers, drunks, rednecks, Christians, maybe even a few hot lesbians. The important thing is just to get some conversation going here. I have a few ideas for starting some regular trail runs, but for the moment I’d like to hear from the rest of you.