For the past two and a half weeks the FTE members in Virginia have been attempting to form a chapter. The request was first submitted on 1 November 2004 by Rory Goggin properly using
this page to submit the request with FTE management. At this time we probably had around 8 - 10 people who were enthused about joining. We waited patiently finding out that Ken (webmaster) had been out at SEMA and was not here for us to contact. Once Ken came back from SEMA we figured that it would only be a matter of a couple days or so and we'd have our chapter all set up for us. At that time the following Private Message was sent to Ken by Rory to see what was going on.
I didn't know you were out of town when I applied last Monday. The natives are getting restless. We now have 22 "subscribed" members in the Virginia Chapter, and everyone is wanting to know when we are going to have our first meeting. I've been telling them to hold off arranging the meeting and such until we have our own forum.
I understand if it takes time to set this up, but, um....can you give me anything to "go back to the troops with"?
The only response we received back was the following.
Are you going to be the Chapter Leader?
Rory responded with the following.
Well, we've not got a forum yet, so we haven't been able to arrange for our off-line meeting in order to vote for officers. However, I was the one to submit the paperwork so many are looking to me for answers and asking "have you heard anything yet?"
Did you not receive the application?
So after patiently waiting Rory called me to tell me that he had heard nothing and asked for me to give it a shot. I resubmitted the paperwork, this time with 42 members who wanted to start a Virginia Chapter. After waiting a little while hoping we'd see something I began to notice that other Virginia members were getting very upset with the time delays and had begun to discuss forming a group outside of FTE. Rory and I were also becoming very frustrated due to the fact that we were ready to go, both are willing to become chapter leader but we surf around to other chapters who have their boards with no activity and no leaders.
So I sent Ken the following message:
Ken,
Hi Ken, my names Christopher Sipes I'm helping Rory with forming the Virginia Chapter. We currently have 42 members that want to start a Virginia Chapter and I just resubmitted the application for it earlier. Rory wanted me to talk to you personally to see if there is anything that we are doing wrong because we were hoping to get a forum set up for ourselves quicker.
Right now it looks like we will be having our first get together this weekend. I just have to get back intouch with one of the guys about what I work on Saturday and Sunday so we can set a time and post it.
Rory and I both would be willing to be the leader for the Chapter, right now him and I are kinda sharing duties trying to get it all orginized. We were just hoping that we would get our forum set up so that there would be no confusion between the Virginia guys and the other mid-atlantic states. Right now we are just going off one very long thread.
Rory and I are frustrated due to the fact that we seem to be a lot more orginized and ready to go then a lot of the other chapters who already have their own forums and we feel as if we're kinda ignored. The people supporting us have seen this and are already talking amoung themselves of starting the group outside of FTE. Rory and I do not want to do that, we love it here at FTE. Obviously we can not control what the other members do so if it takes much longer we might be losing members instead of gaining them.
If there is anything we are doing wrong just set us straight and we'll fix it.
- Chris
We just want to know whats going on. If nothing is going to be set up for us then please just tell us to bug off and we'll go somewhere else but we'd defenitly prefer to stay.
Here is the list of Virginia members as I have them put together so far:
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