[SCG] RE: SCG meeting

[Kent Sullivan]

I certainly would be fine with that. 

The autocross is long enough (especially in the Central and East, where a
LOT of cars usually enter) that people participating in the SCG event can
still watch some of the autocross. I forget when the stock classes run. Are
they first? If so, we could easily start the SCG event an hour or whatever
after the start of the autocross to allow any folks who wanted to run to do
so.

--Kent
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To: Kent Sullivan
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Subject: Re: SCG meeting

Hi all,

If I might make a suggestion. Perhaps we could schedule the SCG field event
the afternoon of the autocross? Most of the stock persons will either be
done with the racing, or not be attending anyway. What do you think?

-Mark C

Hi Larry,
 
Thanks for your note. What I don't understand is how we went from hearing
from the local convention folks that everything fit in the schedule just
fine to then hearing from CORSA (Sarah) that there's no room for the longer
SCG event. The SCG members are just reacting to what we are told.
 
At no time did any SCG folks pressure the local convention folks for a
decision. They came to us when they felt everything was set so we proceeded
in good faith with that knowledge.
 
--Kent


From: Larry Claypool [mailto:mr.vair at urbancom.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:21 AM
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Subject: SCG meeting

gentlemen-
     the corsa board, convention folks, etc are not denying the SCG a
meeting; this is not a "Corsa VS. STG". we recognize the SCG and have
planned all along to scheduled a time slot that is as long as any other
special interest group @ 90 minutes. we have additionally tried to schedule
it during daylight hours so you can opt to have your meeting outside if you
wish to do the car by car look over.
    convention scheduling is a very difficult task. we (harry, myself,
sarah, chuck, stan, and the andolinos)spent much time trying to slot
everything into the available time. we have 69 line items on this year's
schedule and only 4 days to hold them all. of particular circumstance this
year is 2 major evening events, a dinner cruise on friday and a CPF
presentation (building the corvair engine) on thursday, so we effectively
"lost'  two evenings where we would normally hold some of the special
interest meetings. do you want to have a STG meeting the same time as the
dinner cruise? neither does any other group. we have in the past tried to
keep all the special interest groups in their own non conflicting meeting
time, but of late, because of the tight schedule, now have corvanatics, V8
registry, and oil filter collectors at the same time. this year we added SCG
to the list; we had to overlap ultra van and the STG meeting to make it all
fit. our event schedule already starts at 8 am or earlier every day and runs
to 10 pm.or later, so we don't really have room to go earlier/later in the
day. do we move meetings to tuesday? nobody wants to schedule their meeting
then because it's early on and it's generally felt not everybody will be
there yet. unless we are proposing adding a day to the convention- which is
a completely different topic- we are just flat out of time to add any more
non conflicting events to the schedule.
    announcing the STG meeting day and time over VV before the convention
schedule itself had been worked out was premature. we don't know how the
schedule for a given convention looks until the convention committee sits
down with the local hosts and sorts one out that is the most reasonable ,
non conflicting schedule we can do given the days available. i believe we
did that.
    i am sorry there were not slots available for the SCG to hold a regular
chapter meeting AND a SCG event in the lot without going timewise against
some other convention events. the SCG can utilize it's scheduled time slot
on thursday 3:30-5:00 PM any way you like. and, as sarah mentioned, if at
the conclusion of that meeting, if you feel there's more to cover and want
to organize an unofficial gathering at some other time during  the
convention, that's ok with us- it just won't be on the published schedule.
    in summary, i want to restate that this whole recent SCG thread has been
taking a "Corsa VS. SCG", and that is not the case.
 the convention committee is simply trying to schedule the SCG meeting-
along with the 7 other special interest groups chapters- in reasonable time
slots along with all the other many events and tours that make up a corsa
convention best regards larry claypool