bableck
Active member
Is anyone else interested in either helping with the formation and/or participation in a Maryland SAPFM chapter? Or, would you be interested in a broader Mid-Atlantic chapter that could also pick up parts of Southern Pennsylvania, Delaware, DC and/or Northern Virginia?
If you are interested, please contact me directly at [email protected] and I will start developing a roster of interested parties for further communication and exploration during the coming weeks. Also, let me know how you might be willing to help with the effort.
My intent is to fill the geographical gap between the Virginia and Delaware Valley regional chapters.
To explore possible meeting locations, I've attached a map of recent 2011 CWF/FWW Symposium attendees in Maryland (about 25) as an initial perspective on location concentrations. Based on this, my initial thoughts would be to attempt to explore meeting and rotating through 2-4 different meeting locations in Maryland such as: Montgomery County, Annapolis, Baltimore, or Frederick. If this evolves into a mid-atlantic chapter, we will need to explore additional geographic meeting options as well based on the geographical spread of interested participants.
If I'm successful in identifying additional SAPFM member interest and a willingness to collaborate with me to help shoulder the effort, I hope to reach out to a much broader candidate participant list using a variety of possible distribution lists and communications. I've had some initial discussions with Bob Mustain (president) and Dave Conley at the recent SAPFM annual meeting and am encouraged by the offer of support from the SAPFM leadership.
In the meantime, if you have an interest and contact me, I suggest you also review the "Manual for Starting a New Chapter" posted elsewhere under this section as I will be using it as my initial guidance in the formation of a new regional chapter.
If you are interested, please contact me directly at [email protected] and I will start developing a roster of interested parties for further communication and exploration during the coming weeks. Also, let me know how you might be willing to help with the effort.
My intent is to fill the geographical gap between the Virginia and Delaware Valley regional chapters.
To explore possible meeting locations, I've attached a map of recent 2011 CWF/FWW Symposium attendees in Maryland (about 25) as an initial perspective on location concentrations. Based on this, my initial thoughts would be to attempt to explore meeting and rotating through 2-4 different meeting locations in Maryland such as: Montgomery County, Annapolis, Baltimore, or Frederick. If this evolves into a mid-atlantic chapter, we will need to explore additional geographic meeting options as well based on the geographical spread of interested participants.
If I'm successful in identifying additional SAPFM member interest and a willingness to collaborate with me to help shoulder the effort, I hope to reach out to a much broader candidate participant list using a variety of possible distribution lists and communications. I've had some initial discussions with Bob Mustain (president) and Dave Conley at the recent SAPFM annual meeting and am encouraged by the offer of support from the SAPFM leadership.
In the meantime, if you have an interest and contact me, I suggest you also review the "Manual for Starting a New Chapter" posted elsewhere under this section as I will be using it as my initial guidance in the formation of a new regional chapter.