Re: Jacksonville Fly-In

[Mi Vida Loca]

At 08:03 PM 6/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Ron Burke wrote:
>>
>> As a member of this mailing list, I would like to offer WEB Space and talent
>> to cerate and maintain the Coupes Official WEB space.
>>
>> I am a computer professional, and currently own a ISP, so WEB space is not a
>> problem.
>> ercoupe.com is already registered, so we would need to choose a different
>> name.
>>
>> I have been following the Thread about WEB space being offered and turned
>> down by the EOC in the past. If their is enough interest from this list I
>> would consider a unofficial page.
>>
>> I would like some feed back from the active Coupe owners.
>>
>> Thank You for this list
>> Ron Burke
>> N2273H
>>
>
>Ron, good idea. Let's do it unofficially. I see no need to even ask
>for official status initially.
>
>Perhaps in the future we could go official and have EOC articles posted
>simultaneously with the Coupe Capers publication. To avoid killing
>Coupe Capers (and the club with its dues and a paid editor), we would
>need a members only section if we went official.
>
>As an unofficial site, we can just have fun, get articles from where
>ever we can get permission and web connect to all the other Coupe sites.
>
>I'll try to come back from the EOC National Convention this week with
>one or more articles and pictures to post.
>--
>Ed Burkhead
>East Peoria, Ill.
>N3802H, 415-D
>
Ron,
Good luck, I've had essentially that same offer out for about 2 years now from my web site and so far no real input. I would love to see one of us stir some excitement in this community, Coupers are an overall enthusiastic group but also not organized and unwilling to put forth much to effort to develop any clout such as some of the other vintage groups.




Dave
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