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    I wish to propose striking a CFC Membership Drive Committee. I understand that there was a (one man) Membership Drive Committee in 2010-11 (Bob Gillanders), but that there is no such committee for 2011-12 at present. I am willing to serve on such a committee, should it be struck.

    I am willing to contact ex-members by email (if the CFC is not currently doing so), as part of a possible membership drive, if I can be provided with a list of ex-members' email addresses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin Pacey View Post
    I wish to propose striking a CFC Membership Drive Committee. I understand that there was a (one man) Membership Drive Committee in 2010-11 (Bob Gillanders), but that there is no such committee for 2011-12 at present. I am willing to serve on such a committee, should it be struck.

    I am willing to contact ex-members by email (if the CFC is not currently doing so), as part of a possible membership drive, if I can be provided with a list of ex-members' email addresses.
    We had set aside a budget item of $500 in the 2010/11 budget. We were planning to use this money to print pamphlets (perhaps splitting costs with clubs who could use 50% of the pamphlet for their own material).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fred McKim View Post
    We had set aside a budget item of $500 in the 2010/11 budget. We were planning to use this money to print pamphlets (perhaps splitting costs with clubs who could use 50% of the pamphlet for their own material).
    I knew of the proposed pamphlet program, and the delay in its implimentation. I haven't heard yet from Bob Gillanders whether he or the CFC plans to impliment his proposed pamphlet program this year, or if Bob plans to [re-]join a Membership Drive Committee for this year too, should one be struck.

    I am not sure how sustainable such a 50%-50% advertising pamphlet program can be, in the long run. People have pointed out that the CFC had a 'Passport to Chess' pamphlet, for many years (if not still now?), but I agree with anyone who believes a 50%-50% club-CFC advertising pamphlet would be more effective, assuming the CFC can sustain the production and distribution of such pamphlets.
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    Why does the CFC need to actually publish the pamphlet?

    Could we not prepare the pamphlet as a .doc file with a block for local clubs to download and add their own material then let each club print off what they need? Leaving a small print copyright clause should serve the Federation's needs. (Which are basically to prevent the 'club block' section of the pamphlet being used for purposes not sanctioned by the CFC)

    I'd like to see a 'club resource' web page anyways where commonly used documents like wall charts, pairing cards etc could be posted and shared. This could even be done as a sub-forum on this forum if the cost of creating a new webpage for this is deemed too high!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lyle Craver View Post
    Why does the CFC need to actually publish the pamphlet?

    Could we not prepare the pamphlet as a .doc file with a block for local clubs to download and add their own material then let each club print off what they need? Leaving a small print copyright clause should serve the Federation's needs. (Which are basically to prevent the 'club block' section of the pamphlet being used for purposes not sanctioned by the CFC)
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    My guess (in that I'm not knowledgable about printing) would be that an assumption behind last year's proposed 50%-50% pamphlet printing program is that clubs might wish for a certain quality of paper/glossy brochures (that the CFC would provide) that can't be easily produced with an everyday printer, instead of at a printshop.

    If that's not the case, there's not much incentive for clubs not to just print up their own 100% club advertising content on regular printer paper, and not bother with including CFC advertising content if they don't care to.
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    One idea we had a few years ago was to make up a CFC brochure but leave one of the panels blank (perhaps the back one) for the club to fill in with their own information.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Christopher Mallon View Post
    One idea we had a few years ago was to make up a CFC brochure but leave one of the panels blank (perhaps the back one) for the club to fill in with their own information.
    That's possibly an improved version of the old CFC 'Passport to Chess' brochure, if it's correct to assume the brochure would be of printshop quality paper/glossy. Clubs could naturally still feel free not to distribute it, but if they do distribute it then it is more useful to them than the old 'Passport to Chess' brochure, and they wouldn't have to pay 50% of the cost.

    The drawbacks for clubs would be the time consumed filling out their club info on many brochures by hand, and the fact that the quality of the brochure would look somewhat less professional after filling in the club info by hand.

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    No, that's not what I had in mind. We were thinking about doing a whole new brochure and sending it electronically to clubs, who could add info to the back panel and then print it themselves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Christopher Mallon View Post
    No, that's not what I had in mind. We were thinking about doing a whole new brochure and sending it electronically to clubs, who could add info to the back panel and then print it themselves.
    In that case, I'm not sure why clubs wouldn't just print up their own brochures, if they don't mind not having them of printshop quality paper/glossy. That's unless clubs actually care to give the CFC a plug in a club brochure, along with their own advertising.

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