When we had a server deal, despite many people urging us to get involved with a server company, there was zero interest. I am probably the only person who actually signed up and tried it and I am not an online chess person. Given the number of volunteers and their limited time, I don't see us getting involved in that again. It would be crazy to spend our resources on setting up a server when there are so many of them out there.
There would be a lot of maintenance involved and it is not something the volunteers we have now are interested in or passionate about.Then people won't need a place to meet, though online team events could happen later (there is a world-wide one I read of a while back that's a high level players one). Throwing in a few online chess variants besides chess cannot hurt too much (assuming not much extra cost for these, there's no need to promote them - people will just play if they like the look of any of them); crazyhouse is actually at least about half as popular as bughouse, going by when I last looked at the annual records of one chess server (2% of all games played in a year, including chess, were bughouse).
Our assets are probably the same as they were then but probably would not go as far in today's environment.
It's certainly not enough to want to yet diversify the CFC's mandate for over-the-board play promotion to include perhaps even a few variants, especially given the CFC's currently limited resources afaik - other than having x funds available, I don't see what the CFC's assets are (e.g. compared to 2004 when the CFC had a physical office and books and equipment business - cannot recall if it had a print magazine still, too), so that's how I'd picture the CFC as still being essentially in survival mode, even though membership levels have slowly risen (have we got nearly as many adults as in 2004, with the full revenue they bring in compared to junior members? - that I don't know, and my laptop isn't up to handing the CFC website's apparent security concerns, so as to view old membership figures, or even to read the Handbook, say if I ever got back into governance).