Florida G Club Reorganization
That looks good but im not shure if the directors are going to want a forum based website or just a normal website. I believe we should go ahead and get management established first which will be determined by Friday 5/6 and we can go ahead and debate on from there but to me it looks legit.
Good thinking. If that works go ahead and ask any shop or whatever if they would also be interested in a club sponsorship basically offering the same thing. 10% or whatever off of goods or services for any PAYING FGC members (with proof of membership). Once we have eough sponsors that will make the nominal amount for FGC membership worth it. Heck IMO the 10% off at Lokey alone should make the $50 or so worth paying. And yes I know EVERYONE takes advantage of the discount even though they are not paid members but that will not be the case in the not so distant future.
Verifying members would be difficult. We should have a master list of paying members posted on the club's website.... i think its the best way.
If we can keep Lokey as a sponsor that would be extremely helpful. We should also talk to marti at S&R performance and see what they could do for us... even if its a discount on tuning only.
I am trying to think of other reputable shops in the area that we can all rely on... ill get back to ya on that. (maybe even a powder coating shop in the area... doesnt SlowBoy do that? they are right around the corner from my house)
If we can keep Lokey as a sponsor that would be extremely helpful. We should also talk to marti at S&R performance and see what they could do for us... even if its a discount on tuning only.
I am trying to think of other reputable shops in the area that we can all rely on... ill get back to ya on that. (maybe even a powder coating shop in the area... doesnt SlowBoy do that? they are right around the corner from my house)
On the note of a site-based forum:
I know some are going to have the opinion of "We've already got G35Driver, and we're on sooo many forums already... etc..."
But, remember it's a LOT easier to customize in every way, not just look/layout, but also to have different levels of access.
For example, right now the ability to have special access to private forums for FGC members only, or for directors to have their own board, etc... all that is entirely dependent on an IB owned forum that isn't in any way managed or owned by the FGC.
And if Driver is down, the FGC forum is down.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not in any way suggesting that the FGC should discontinue use of this site. It's a great way to get the word out.
It's also plenty easy to put a list of links on the home-page of the FGC site, on it's own forum, or both that read something like "FGC @ G35Driver.com" "FGC @ OurVQ.com" etc... that link to the FGC area on each forum.
I know some are going to have the opinion of "We've already got G35Driver, and we're on sooo many forums already... etc..."
But, remember it's a LOT easier to customize in every way, not just look/layout, but also to have different levels of access.
For example, right now the ability to have special access to private forums for FGC members only, or for directors to have their own board, etc... all that is entirely dependent on an IB owned forum that isn't in any way managed or owned by the FGC.
And if Driver is down, the FGC forum is down.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not in any way suggesting that the FGC should discontinue use of this site. It's a great way to get the word out.
It's also plenty easy to put a list of links on the home-page of the FGC site, on it's own forum, or both that read something like "FGC @ G35Driver.com" "FGC @ OurVQ.com" etc... that link to the FGC area on each forum.
That wouldn't be that hard to do through the website.
We could give everyone a member number, and have a simple link vendors could use to type in a member number, screen name, etc... and the program would check against a database and quickly display if the member was active (paid up) or not.
If we did ID cards, we could add a QR code and a vendor could check their memebership status with just a simple scan with a smart phone.
The interface would be plenty easy to design, and I wouldn't mind doing it.
We could give everyone a member number, and have a simple link vendors could use to type in a member number, screen name, etc... and the program would check against a database and quickly display if the member was active (paid up) or not.
If we did ID cards, we could add a QR code and a vendor could check their memebership status with just a simple scan with a smart phone.
The interface would be plenty easy to design, and I wouldn't mind doing it.
We can but doesnt give a personal feel to the club. Would prefer if everyone knew everyone would make it feel much more like a club/organization. We can have our names and then on the line below put our usernames?
I think the pic isn't actually needed... that's a take it or leave it thing for me
But there should be a member number and screen name for sure.
A QRcode wouldn't hurt.
But there should be a member number and screen name for sure.
A QRcode wouldn't hurt.
Another suggestion- On the website lets have a list of all of our members... and allow people to mouse over the members screen names which will show their first name, a picture of them, and their car (which would be submitted by them of course)
Also, not hard to design.