Here is an idea. Shoot holes in it as you may!
BTW, I am in the SouthWest group:
Each group should nominate a chair person that would be responsible for gathering "donations" for his/her local group. This would actually make the groups more like an actual "Car-Club" but it would releive the burden from Lance and/or anyone that would take it over. Each group, I assume, has local gatherings, no matter how infrequently. We need to fugure out EXACTLY how much it is gonna cost to place our site in a reliable location. I figure that it can't be much, due to the size and lack of complicated scripting ect.... If each group would do one "fund-raiser" or "group-gimme" event, we could stick money into a national PayPal account and voila, we are safe from advertising and pop up garbage. Gee, isn't this like a democracy... State run government reporting to a national government....
With the amount of members that we have, we don't need each group to gather that much cash, I would think. If each group gathered $300 that would be like $6k (assuming we have 20 groups). That should be more than plenty, right???? We should attempt to stay Non-Profit.
