Originally Posted by LOUROK 
So you have mainly attended what I call "Serca Conventions". For someone who has attended a bunch of Conventions and hosted one, where were you at when the convention almost failed in 2011 before Mark saved it? Or in 2012 where we had to start from scratch? My point being is I'm seeing a lot of old school members starting to show up and have all kinds opinions of the current convention but were no where to be found when the conventions almost came to an end. I'm sure you have valid reasons though.
Also for going to all these convention how do you not know who Mark is? The problem with the Serca conventions I saw was the segregation. Either its people are to shy, or too cool to talk to others that they don't know. Kinda like high school all over again. in 2012 everybody hung out the whole time and we were one big group, not little groups or clicks and thats what I'm trying to get away from.
Sorry if I may come across like a douchebag, I have a lot of time and passion into these convention so I get opinionated, anyways we look forward for you and everyone else coming out for 2014, we'll have some drinks and get to know everyone a little better
Originally Posted by LikeTheMovies There is also the idea if wanting to improve turnout to bring in all Sentra groups the b15 and b16 guys. I know its SR Convention but this could help expand and get other locations with not much popularity.
Nah, I've thought about this in the past, Its a different crowd. This is more of an sr20 thing, those platforms tend to have owners who come and go. Sr20 people tend to stick around.
Not coming across like one at all sir! I wanted to come to 2011 and 2012, but insert usual excuses here (mine was a new job, no PTO available for capital to go, etc). And I totally agree, I stuck around people who I know, I'm not saying its good or bad, and this year I branched out quite a bit, I've just been a bit of a hermit until late. No ones fault but my own
. I know a lot of forum names, but that's about it, and I've been mostly involved with G20.net for the past 4ish years (never really became active on the dash after the split and wasn't very active besides lurking on the old forum).And your right, we DO need that, of course clicks will always happen, there is no changing that. The prior ones almost came to an end because people stopped caring about the actual core values of the convention, IMO people would just host one to say there would be one this year and go through the motions. I can say that conventions are nothing like what they were in 2002-2005 range, but that happens to almost every type of event, forum, hobby, etc. Everything has its cylces, people fade in and out and will always have opinions. You go with what you have and make it the best you can, then hope for the best.
You could go farther and say that back in the day, the SERCA group was the largest SE-R group in the US, and now look at the west coast
, we can barely get local meets together!And I agree, inviting B15 and B16 folks is great on paper, but the lifecycle of those owners are quite sparatic.
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