I agree and many other people did too which is why it was left this way for now. Unfortunately it means the onus is on individuals to volunteer their places and so on which means we're probably meeting less often.
It's more for if you wanted to bring somebody like Calfo or Borneman in to do some presentation or whatever. Thing is, for something like that, it would be better to consolidate efforts between Calgary and Edmonton so it would involve a level of organization that would be something of a step up from what we've got right now.
Plus who knows how often you can do something like that without it being too repetitive. Ie. probably only once a year, and for the other meets it could just be things like frag meets or tank tours. And theoretically we do those now without having to pay a membership fee, so I'm not sure if there's a lot of support for formalizing an actual group just yet. Heck Vancouver doesn't even have it yet! Although it seems they are on the cusp of forming something, I'm not sure.
The one advatange though of a formal society is that there would be an executive council to make things like meetings and so on a regular happenstance, rather than relying on individuals to take it upon themselves to offer up their place. So it could end up that we'd have more frags meets and so on. Which may be a good thing.
So we might want to keep this idea in our backpocket, i.e. don't bury it too far just yet.