What is the 914 club? Options

[rick 918-S]

Ok, I can't be the only one here that is confused.
1) Who is in charge of the 914 Club?

2) What is the Club?

3) Where is the Club located?

4) When was it formed?

5) How do you join?

6) Is there dues?

7) Is there any plans for a National event?

Be nice....

[Brad Roberts]

Ok.

1. I'm heading it up right now.

2. The club first started with the dgi.net/914/ site. It was based in Oakley Ca. by a guy named Alex (his last name escapes me). Alex passed away and prior to that had held events on the west coast and helped support events in the Midwest (MUSR). There was a big power struggle and conflics between several of the 914 members when things started to go downhill in 1997 or so. The website (dgi) basically stopped being maintained at that point. The classifieds where being handled by Glenn Stazak (changing the monthly title) Glenn was empowered by the person who built the dgi site to run it. Several meetings where held over 2-3 years about what "we" the 914 people where going to do with the club... Well... guess what.. nothing happened. In May of 2001 the person who actually hosted the dgi site moved the contents to a new server that didnt have Perl installed on it and the classifieds broke. I imediately registered 914world.com/.net/.org. Again we held meetings to "fire" up this new site. Almost 2 years went by and I relized nothing was being done. I took it back over and decided to make a go of it. Everybody loved the original site. I wanted to use some of it to keep the same feel but was told I had to work with Glenn Stazak if I wanted to use any of the copy-writed material. Seeing personally that nothing ever happened with the old site when Glenn was involved led me to do this on my own with help from other people in the 914 society. ALL the graphics are done by Jeroen from the Netherlands, the server is free as well as the bandwidth. That is it in a nutshell. Some of the facts where left out...

3. Club is really not located anywhere. The plan is to have all the little satellite 914 groups come together under one name.

4. This one was formed a few weeks ago. I would like to say it was created back in 1996 by Alex and his girlfriend Barbara. I'm not trying to recreate the wheel. Just give 914 people a common place not "sponsored" by any one vendor (vendor neutral)

5. You joined when you signed up for this BBS. I will have something more formal in the near future.

6. We already have National events: WCR, MUSR, ECR.. so forth and so on.

More to come soon. I need to speak with Chuxter about the 914 SIG and all the other people who put on the 914 events around the globe.

B