Wicked, I think you're confused about the fact that this site is actually Evotuners.net, and under that we have RMEVO.com, which is just the RM region within Evotuners.net. I had Chris, the previous owner of Evotuners (current DSMTuners owner/founder) create the RMEVO.com domain name and point it to the regional section. So, perhaps new people who are told to go to RMEVO.com don't realize it's just a re-direct basically.
So, we have members all over the country from different regions who participate in the main site and in their regional sub-sites, but our region is by far the biggest and is the only one with a separate domain name to make it easier for our local members to find it. We did it that way, because I wanted to make an RMEVO site when I moved here but had no means for setting up the hosting. After I moved, I met him in person (he lives in Lone Tree), and we decided to combine the two by hosting RMEVO within the existing structure so as to avoid any additional costs.
For the BBQ, I've done a bunch of those back when I was the DSMCA (Capitol Area) President and then a DCEVOCLUB member. I was always able to keep the event free or very low cost with food and drink and even raffle items to give away that were donated by sponsors/vendors. It just requires some coordination and leg work to get sponsors who want to attend and/or donate items. The raffle money usually pays for all the food and whatever rental fee there is for the space (if there is one), and then people get lots of cool mods/gift cards/trinkets in return.
Thanks for the behind the scenes tour of this forum. It all makes sense now. But I beg to find out why/who is currently administering this regional forum so that issues like the spammer can be brought to a halt instead of getting spammed to death.
As for the bbq, sounds very similar to what we did in Arizona. T-shirt sales and decals helped to pay for the food, rental, etc. for the bbq itself. I am willing to do the leg-work to make this happen if I can get more coordination from others to help out with planning. Seeing as both of us are local to each other, maybe we can pool resources and see what we can come up with for this summer's bbq?
I would be willing to contact vendors and see what can be worked out as far as raffles go. I am thinking I would like to get started on this asap.
You know I am down for whatever you plan. BBQ, T shirts, stickers, stuff of that nature. I could possible make some things at work like coffee mugs with RMevo on it or plaques/trophies. I can engrave on pens, acrylic metal. So if you have an idea for an award let me know.
Wicked, I have administrative rule of our regional forum, but what you're talking about (spammed PMs?) is not relevant to the regional forum, but rather to the forum itself. I can delete/edit threads/posts in the RM section, but I haven't seen spam in our section. I saw a bunch under a vendor forum, but I can't touch that.
The whole site was recently bought out by another company, and they run it, but so far they seem to only care about posting tons of info on the X rather than interacting with us like regular people.
I already have some good vendor contacts who I work with as sponsors or just as good friends of RMEVO, so we have a good base to start with. I would want help contacting those outside shops that we don't know and haven't worked with in any capacity so far.
On topic though. Lets get the next meet on its way. and I think we should start a poll to see what people think we should do.
I think having it everythird sunday a month is a good idea if someone can not make it at least they know the next one is on the third sunday next month. Just speaking out loud. What do you guys think?
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Bam, I think that's a great idea. I'd love to have a meet atleast once a month. We should start a new thread with a calender so people have a reference. You sure are a fart smeller, I mean smart feller.
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