Formal reefing club?

[gerrygab]

Count me in too!

[reeferaddict]

Hey this is coming along quite nicely! 8 the first day, Christy offering to organize and a potential sponsor! (Thanks Scott)

So I guess the first step would be to define a mission, ways and means to accomplish it, membership, initial meeting, and some sort of structure.

My initial thoughts would be the mission to be something like:

"To promote responsible, sustainable reef aquarium keeping through sharing of information and educating our members and the public about tropical reef life in nature and keeping it in captivity."

The means to accomplish this would be regular scheduled meetings with varying themes, featured speaker presentations, sharing and observations of breeding and propogation techniques, along with any other ideas that come..

Then we should decide on a meeting place and date, and decide how we could structure it.

I'm thinking members could offer things to each other such as mentorship, aquarium sitting, and of course a support system of sorts for people's emergencies, crashes etc... somebody needs a heater or a pump or something.. simple to start, but in the future we could have a group attend a MACNA conference or maybe even do a reef diving trip... It would just be nice to meet face to face... see each others systems in person, and have a social circle beyond our online personas of people sharing this passion... thanks for the great response... let's keep the ideas flowing and get the ball rolling...

[Jaws]

Sounds good guys. I look forward to our first meeting.

[christyf5]

Bleh, mission schmission

A bunch of reef geeks getting together to geek out over fish and frags and the occasional beer.

I hope when you said "Formal" you didn't mean taking minutes and banging gavels and crap

[rickjames]

Sure why not, I'm in.

[Swags]

Count me in!
Phil

[reeferaddict]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Bleh, mission schmission

A bunch of reef geeks getting together to geek out over fish and frags and the occasional beer.

I hope when you said "Formal" you didn't mean taking minutes and banging gavels and crap

I guess this is where we determine the "structure"... IMO the best structure would be one that wasn't dependent upon the presence or actions of one or two individuals thereby ensuring the survival and continuation of the association, society or whatever we decide to call it... I hadn't thought of a gavel.. but now that ya mention it....

[HimSelf]

Great idea!! I think if we work out some type of car pooling system then we can shrink this island down in to a small town

I'm in!!!

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by reeferaddict

I'm just curious to find out how many of you on the island would join & support a REAL reefkeeping club.

look at the poll, there is 3 that would

Steve

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

look at the poll, there is 3 that would

Steve

Hmmm....I count 3 that wouldn't

Anyhoo...Ya! Count me in. I think it'd be good.
But ya, no gavel please. I get enough structure at work.

That makes a dozen.
Anyone want to make it a Baker's?