At our last club event club member Alex suggested that we pursue the idea of prescheduled, recurring local meet-ups. The concept would be that once a month there would be a standing tentative meet-up at a restaurant that local members could periodically attend as their schedules permitted. These types of events would be geared for smaller, localized groups and would fill in between the larger, regional or statewide events that I assist in organizing.
A good example of this sort of thing is the recurring duPont Registry Cars and Coffee events in Saint Petersburg that is scheduled for every third Saturday. A number of our club members in the greater Tampa area use the Tesla Motors Club (TMC) forum to notify other nearby members that they intend to attend a particular DuPont event. They meet at the DuPont location and afterwards they get together for breakfast at a nearby restaurant.
I would like to invite further discussion and suggestions regarding these types of local events. Do you have any suggestions for an event or location convenient to you that you would like to periodically meet with other nearby club members? The meet-ups could be at a city or county level and not necessarily extended to entire club regions, which as you know, are rather large.
The notification need not be just via TMC. You could also do local email invitations to members which would be more effective in promoting attendance.
By way of example to get the discussion rolling, let me suggest an idea for the Sarasota-Bradenton area. As many of you know the University Town Center Mall (UTC) opened in October. It’s a very nice mall that has a large Tesla Store, 16 public chargers, four of which are High Power Wall Connectors (HPWCs), and a number of great restaurants. For example, the Kona Grill is an indoor/outdoor restaurant that has excellent food and is right in front of 8 of the chargers (four of which are the HPWCs). We could have a standing tentative schedule to meet at the Kona on say the second Saturday of every month at noon. Or I might be able to reserve a room at the Capitol Grill for this sort of recurring event. I could send out an emailing to our Sarasota-Bradenton members. How does that sound to you? Obviously, other members outside of the Sarasota-Bradenton area would be welcome as would local non-club members reading this posting.
Does anyone have any additional suggestions, or is anyone willing to initiate a similar recurring local meet-up in their area?
Thanks.
Larry
A good example of this sort of thing is the recurring duPont Registry Cars and Coffee events in Saint Petersburg that is scheduled for every third Saturday. A number of our club members in the greater Tampa area use the Tesla Motors Club (TMC) forum to notify other nearby members that they intend to attend a particular DuPont event. They meet at the DuPont location and afterwards they get together for breakfast at a nearby restaurant.
I would like to invite further discussion and suggestions regarding these types of local events. Do you have any suggestions for an event or location convenient to you that you would like to periodically meet with other nearby club members? The meet-ups could be at a city or county level and not necessarily extended to entire club regions, which as you know, are rather large.
The notification need not be just via TMC. You could also do local email invitations to members which would be more effective in promoting attendance.
By way of example to get the discussion rolling, let me suggest an idea for the Sarasota-Bradenton area. As many of you know the University Town Center Mall (UTC) opened in October. It’s a very nice mall that has a large Tesla Store, 16 public chargers, four of which are High Power Wall Connectors (HPWCs), and a number of great restaurants. For example, the Kona Grill is an indoor/outdoor restaurant that has excellent food and is right in front of 8 of the chargers (four of which are the HPWCs). We could have a standing tentative schedule to meet at the Kona on say the second Saturday of every month at noon. Or I might be able to reserve a room at the Capitol Grill for this sort of recurring event. I could send out an emailing to our Sarasota-Bradenton members. How does that sound to you? Obviously, other members outside of the Sarasota-Bradenton area would be welcome as would local non-club members reading this posting.
Does anyone have any additional suggestions, or is anyone willing to initiate a similar recurring local meet-up in their area?
Thanks.
Larry
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