Wherever the next meet may be, the first priority needs to be a location that's easy for a lot of members to get to and bring/ship their gear. Regardless of vendors, it's still the member rigs and member attendance that make it a meet rather than just a trade show. Then you've got to have a team of locals willing to work at planning for months, which means a team that likes each other a lot, is flexible, supportive, even when things go wrong, and pretty responsible. Without those two, it's really hard to have a large scale meet.
I'd like to see one in the Detroit, Chicago area only because of location, but DC certainly has a great location and members that can pull this off.
I'd like to see a meet overseas, but I agree with others that have posted saying first pull off a large-scale meet with vendor attendance. I like jp11801's idea about holding meets at the same time.
Last edited by boomana; 05-08-2008 at 01:03 PM.
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