Ask not what MSCC can do for you, but what can you do for MSCC!!
A very fair point. What could I do for MSCC? Not much, unfortunately. As I still have to work for a living, I am perpetually time-impoverished. And from a professional standpoint, my skills in business architecture, information exploitation and process engineering are probably not going to resonate particularly strongly with the club committee.
For example, the first piece of advice I would offer is: instead of having committee meetings, in which people have to physically travel long distances to attend, and in which the time available for discussions is necessarily limited by the need for people to get home afterwards, why not shift the meetings to a collaborative environment on-line?
- it would reduce the time and expense required for travel
- it would enable people to participate who cannot travel or who have accessibility issues
- as the conversations could be asynchronous, people wouldn't even have to attend on the day, the meeting could run for a week or more if necessary
- it would be dirt cheap to implement, there must be several MSCC members who could host the sw on their web server (or you could just rent a cloud-based implementation)
- no need to take minutes as the conversations would be recorded in the contributions of the participants
- you could easily allow sufficient time to thoroughly discuss all the issues and arrive at a consensus/concordant position
- just like in a traditional meeting, you could allow contributions from everyone but restrict decision making to approved members
To be honest, about all I can practically do is to offer financial support in the form of my subscription. So, taking my cue from Jay, I shall give them another year. It would indeed be a shame if the club died before it had a chance to reinvigorate itself.
