Hell I have been out and wired up most of the feed for the pump on the MK1 golf waiting for this new thread..... I will have my Roadster finished before Andy finishes typing.

TT

TT,

I can’t see him on line any more, maybe he has snapped under the pressure:D :D

Duno, perhaps he's just typed in the word "FISH" 800 times and snapped...

Anyway, I had some good news from a member on one of my other forums, He lost his job at a signage/print/etc... Firm last year but started a new similar job Today. So may be able to get stickers/merchandise etc done at a reasonable rate .

TT

TT,

Nice we could be sending some business his way.

Have you seen the price of plastic card printing machines, the sort used for, say, membership cards.:eek: :eek: :eek:

£800 - £2,000. We might not be doing membership cards straight of the bat.:o

Has he posted yet.

Cheers Ginge

Club Meeting Held at Stoneleigh
 

A meeting was held on 2nd May 2010,
meeting started at 1910hrs

Forum members present....

Chris Gibbs
Dogwood
Handyandy
TJ ( Les G,s son)
Gus
Mightymouth
Davey
Gingea1pom
Aerosam
Les G
Ash G
Adrian H
Tilly

I opened the meeting by thanking everyone for attending in terrible weather & outlined the purpose of the meeting, which was to discuss the creation of an "Official Club".

I announced that the following members had offered their services to act as committee members if so seconded ....

Chris Gibbs ( non active with regard administration)
Bonzo
Twin Turbo
Handyandy
Gingea1pom
Mightymouth
Ash G

I announced that Chris Gibbs would be honoured to be the club Hon President if that is what the club would want,
I asked for a show of hands to this regard, every person present voted in favour.

The following positions of the committee were then voted in

Secretary = Handyandy, nominated by Davey seconded by Dogwood
Treasurer = Gingea1pom, nominated by Dogwood seconded by Aerosam
General committee member= Twin Turbo seconded by Gingea1pom
General committee member= Bonzo seconded by Mightymouth
General committee member= Mightymouth (website tech)seconded by Gus
General committee member= Ash G (website hosting) seconded by Davey
General committee member= Davey seconded by Tilly

Club Name
After a full discussion with various names being suggested the final name was chosen by a show of hands by majority.........
Haynes Sports Car Club ( subject to confirmation in writing from Haynes to allow the use of the Haynes brand name)

Membership
Membership will be open to any person that has built or is building a car from a "Haynes Build Book" ( not just the Roadster)
Any person with a genuine interest or taking inspiration from the concept of building from a Haynes build book that helps in the build of a car.

Membership Cost

Membership subscription will be £10 per 12 months or pro rata ( for new members joining part way through a year)

Membership start date will be from July to July

Any new memberships part way through the year will be on a pro rata system plus the following years subscription.

The Annual General Meeting of the club will be held at The Stoneleigh Kit Car Show year on year.

Other Business

There were also various discussions on "Rules of the Club", these will be discussed & finalised between the elected committee members & posted on this forum before the 1st July,

It was also discussed that as this forum is a Worldwide forum then every member of this forum should be given ample time to comment on the above elections of committee members & membership details,

So, if any current forum member has any objections to the above would they please contact me via PM, email or if you wish via this thread after this thread has been posted ( Time & date noted) by 1/6/2010.
any objections after this time will be noted but the above elections will be deemed as "Carried".

I , on behalf of the elected committee hope that all forum members will take the above in good spirit , but am sure there are details that need to be confirmed with regard to creating an Official Club & this process is ongoing as we speak, as & when new confirmed details are available then these will be made available on this thread as & when they are finalised.

The meeting ended at 2030 hrs.

cheers
Andy

the dax club just uses numbers - no card - the reasons needed for membership number are limited usually.

Nice one Andy.

Just as I remember it.

I can go to bed now. NOT

Cheers Ginge

Welldone to HandyAndy and all of the other members at Stoneleigh for sorting this out, just sorry I couldn't stay for the meeting in the evening. Can I be so bold as to suggest that anything that needs purchasing could be thrown open to the forum to see if there is anyone who can get a good deal. There is obviously a large network of enthusiastic people here that could be utilised for bulk purchase etc.

Oh and by the way, the build is officially started, I have taped out the template on the build table and laid out some metal to make it look good. The bits of metal match the drawing very nicely;) cheers Andy

John,

I like your thinking, duly noted

I have been at work so not much time but have started trying to mock up a website design. Bearing in mind this is a very rough draft and a work in progress, this is what I have so far.

Excelent. Gr8 work.

TT

Keith,

That is great, I like the chassis inside the Haynes laurel wreath, I like the faded colours either side, I like the tyre marks, the carbon effect on either side.

Yes I LIKE.

Nice work mate.

Cheers Ginge

Thanks, like i said it's a work in progress, I am not sure if its a little hard on the eyes with the bright Red and Yellow so prominent. I'll sleep on it and then hopefully something will come to me.:)

looking good and just want to thank every one for the work they have put in to this.

John,
great idea, thanks yes, we,ll be "tapping" the resource of the forums knowledge i,m sure :)

You,re very welcome, glad to hear that you,ve got straight onto your build, you know where I am if needed, enjoy your build :cool:

Keith

that looks great, thanks for the work so far, and like Ginge says.....I like too :cool:

cheers
andy

Ash: Any probs on the hosting and I may be able to sort some space in a new data center in a few weeks.

TT

Great news Andy :cool:

With the current level of support, I am sure the club will go from strength to strength :)

I must appologise for my absence at the meeting .... I was all done in big time & needed to be on the move back to the west country :(

Some great things are happening even at this early stage.

Andy & Ginge, thanks for all of your hard work that you have both put in .... The dream has now become a reality.

Keith, I am loving the design work .... Well taken by that club Logo.

David, that is a cracking offer .... I am sure you'll be hearing from the clubs techno bods .... All of that sort of stuff just goes over my head.

Counting the days untill I can hand over my first subs :)

Well done one and all.

Handyandy
i thought we agreed that people who own a roadster
or were drawing inspiration from a haynes book
were able to join it also seemed that the opinion was to allow
other seven type owners to join
cheers les g

That is a kind offer, I would have to know if those tools would integrate with any of the CMS solutions I am familiar with. As I understand it, AshG has the hosting in hand already. Could you PM me with details of the membership script and the conferencing software? I.E. the product names and versions.

Hi Les,
yes that was agreed, have i written the info in a way that it doesn,t make that clear?
my apologies if i have,
The idea was to welcome members who have built a car ( even if not currently owning the car), are building a car, any person with an interest in building a car( and as you say ..."drawing inspiration from a "book build"),

should i rewrite what i have posted? cheers for the heads up on this Les.

cheers
andy

Looking good. Now get it up and running already.:p

I'd just like to add my support to the effort you chaps are putting in to forming a club. I know that it takes a lot of time and effort to sort all this sort of stuff out, it is appreciated.

As has probably already been said I believe a club to support Haynes builders is a very good idea.

I was up at Stoneleigh on Sunday and put a few faces to names; sorry I could not make it to the inaugural meeting in the evening but here is my two-penneth’s worth:

An active forum is the best asset a club can have. The only thing that is in the back of my mind is that the forum (as I understand it) belongs to and is administered by Haynes. If we were to set up our own web site and use the Haynes forum, we ought to, out of respect, gain Haynes' permission to link to it and advertise the forum as the 'official' Haynes Sports Car Club's forum. I believe that the fostering of a good relationship with the administrators of the Haynes Forum is of fundamental importance to the future of our club. Can we try to establish a point of contact between the club and whoever is responsible for the forum within Haynes?

I'm afraid I don't have too much to offer the club but I have been told I have a bit of a 'thing' with respect to punctuation, grammar and spelling so if you need anything proof read (e.g. web-site articles, news letters), when the time comes, I could be your man!

Keep up the good work.

eSteve,

I hear what you are saying and agree.

The subject of the forum and the HSSC did come up in informal conversation.

I think the general consensus was that the forum would run and continue untouched the club would be a totally different entity, there to deal with club business.

Cheers Ginge

Great to see things moving on so rapidly. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to set this up and volunteered their services. As soon as everythiing is setup I will be joining straight away.

On thought I had was presumably there would be a number of club events arranged - how about one at the Haynes Museum? Perhaps next summer we could meet up down there and maybe persuade them to let us use their track? Hopefully the single seater might even be out by then and a fair few roadsters on the road.

Esteve,
thanks for your support of the club & your offer of help in proof reading etc,

as Ginge has said, the discussion regarding the forum did come up at the meeting & was agreed by all that THIS forum is THE forum & that the "club" would be an extension to the forum & in no way compete with it, to the point that when a "Club " website is created it would direct viewers to this forum.

It was nice to meet you at the weekend to talk "Roadster", :)

David....
Thanks also for your kind words of support, & yes we will hopefully be arranging "get togethers" & club events in the future & the idea of all having a day at the Haynes museum is high on the wish list, as then we could have a club day & like you say maybe get chance to use the Haynes museum track,
Its an exciting time both for the creation of the Club & the Marque of cars that we are all enjoying so much. :cool:

cheers
andy

you can register with the MSA a club to organise events, licences, etc

dunno what it costs

http://www.msauk.org/site/cms/localG...p?category=469

A little progress on the web design. Still just sorting out the general look and then once happy with that I will turn that into a template for a CMS, Probably Joomla as I know that the best and it has a lot of Plugin options.

Anyway here's the latest. Comments welcome.

I'm liking the look of that MM. I presume that will be a menu on the left, main content in a scrollable window in centre and pictures on right?

D.

when starting a club you need things like discount at place's and grill badges to fit to your car's, stickers, caps and as mentioned polo shirt's, and I many add count me in

Nice work MM :cool:
thats coming together nicely, it would,ve taken me ages to do that with a felt tipped pen & paper :D
I wouldn,t have a clue with a computer paint design :o :D

Correl......
yes , thats the plan, once the club is up and running we,ll be sourcing discounts /stickers / T shirts etc etc & hopefully in future arranging club events.

cheers
andy

Pretty much, though with the CMS I am planning on using, anything can literally go anywhere you want and can be changed at any time so the main menu could be on the right and the pictures on the left. There will also be a login area and depending on other factors maybe a top menu for categories if that is deemed necessary. The centre window will not be scrollable but the entire page will be. Best practice is to not need much scrolling and have links to more details or the whole article if a new item or whatever.

MM:

The design looks a little tired to me :D


Good work.

TT

Davey, Look at my site in my signature. That's based on the Joomla CMS.

TT

Say what !!??

Will that make my side panels for me ! :D :D


Nice work there Keith .... I like what I see :cool: :)

CMS - Content Management System

Saves a whole mahuuuuusive amount of work building websites with constantly updated content.

TT

and there,s me thinking its a new style of coffee :o :D

lets just admit it Ronnie..... we,re not the generation to understand computers :confused:
well ...it all goes over my head .......I thought a byte is what you get from a dog :D

Nice work MM

cheers
andy

hello
it you are interested, I can be your correspondent for France
my English is not very good, excuse me

I bet it's better than my French, Pradaloup.

Go for it......:D

T-shirts n stuff
 

Hi guys
just got a flyer through at work today advertising embroidered polo shirts, sweatshirts and the like.
This month they have an offer of 50x polo shirts with free logo for £199, and 20x sweatshirts for £150.
They also do them individually on the website.
Just thought you guys in charge might be interested.
The website is LINK
Hope that link works, never done one before.:D
To get the above offers you have to quote F-JUNE10
Cheers
Alan

A little more evolution, I thought the tyre marks were a good effect but a little too much so have toned it down a little. Its almost there I think, just a few more details.