I agree that the two can happen this weekend, however, I don't see how a full week's notice kills too many individual's plans.
What we found when you try and coordinate meetings online among a group of people, after trying many different things, is that no matter what day/date/time you set, there will ALWAYS be someone with a scheduling conflict, and you can't accomodate everyone. You just have to set a reasonable date/time and stick with it. When you try and do these impromptu meetings every now and then, change the venues, and don't stick with a plan, you end up lacking attendance.
I would strongly encourage that MS Protege folks in the RTP/Raleigh area join our existing organization which does accomodate your cars (we aren't just Rotaries and Miatas). We have been established for several years, have a good number of committed folks (we see 25% attendance at our monthly functions on a regular basis, and that is of all of the members across the state), and it would be mutually beneficial if the various Mazda groups in RTP/Raleigh weren't a bunch of separate factions. We are trying to be self-sufficient enough to broker deals with local dealers for club discounts and be able to have enough participants to run our own events (autocrosses, driver training, driving schools).
We also have a decent number of folks in the Greensboro/Winston-Salem area (we used to meet there as well) that we could bring them out of the woodwork for a meeting in the Triad area with the Pro Mazda group members I met two months ago.
What we found when you try and coordinate meetings online among a group of people, after trying many different things, is that no matter what day/date/time you set, there will ALWAYS be someone with a scheduling conflict, and you can't accomodate everyone. You just have to set a reasonable date/time and stick with it. When you try and do these impromptu meetings every now and then, change the venues, and don't stick with a plan, you end up lacking attendance.
I would strongly encourage that MS Protege folks in the RTP/Raleigh area join our existing organization which does accomodate your cars (we aren't just Rotaries and Miatas). We have been established for several years, have a good number of committed folks (we see 25% attendance at our monthly functions on a regular basis, and that is of all of the members across the state), and it would be mutually beneficial if the various Mazda groups in RTP/Raleigh weren't a bunch of separate factions. We are trying to be self-sufficient enough to broker deals with local dealers for club discounts and be able to have enough participants to run our own events (autocrosses, driver training, driving schools).
We also have a decent number of folks in the Greensboro/Winston-Salem area (we used to meet there as well) that we could bring them out of the woodwork for a meeting in the Triad area with the Pro Mazda group members I met two months ago.
