At the AGM in April it was agreed by the attending membership that a Members Internet Forum should be provided. This will be aimed to cater for not just technical Q&As about our cars but also a platform for people to discuss general items of interest. Triumph related or not! CoM has been working since the AGM on making this request from the AGM become a reality. It has taken a little longer than any of us would have liked. However, with Triumfest UK 2014 fast approaching and other urgent issues, there has had to be a list of priorities made and a decision made with regards to the order in which they needed tackling. CoM would like to take this opportunity to thank the membership for its patience. Everyone connected with the management of the TSSC fully recognises and shares the desire of the membership to see the Forum up and running. However, CoM would also like to take this opportunity to remind all members that there is only so much the available volunteer hands can do at any one time with the available volunteer time they have available. In common with each and every club member, each volunteer has their own work and personal life issues to address in exactly the same way as every club member is required to do. The platform for the Forum is very near to being agreed and it will be available via a link from the main TSSC web-site. The forum will be a stand-alone facility for the membership run by its membership rather than CoM. In order to protect the Forums integrity and the reputation of the wider TSSC, the decision is that the Forum must have a minimum of 4 Moderators at any one time, otherwise, it will be suspended by CoM until the appropriate number of moderators can be put in place. The rules by which the Forum will be run are to be created by the Moderators for final approval of CoM. Once that process is completed the Forum can become a reality and the membership can have a Members Forum run by its members for the benefit of its members. CoM has currently nominated five individuals and they will soon receive invitations from CoM to be Moderators of the new Forum. Those invitations will be issued by Friday 11th July 2014. The invitations will outline what the role responsibilities are and that they need to liaise with their fellow nominated Moderators in order to initially create, and have agreed by CoM, the rules by which the Forum will operate. Depending on the time taken by the Moderators to complete the above task, the Forum will be available to the wider membership sometime in the next month or two. CoMs desire is for the Forum to be up and running by the end of August. If that can be sooner, then all the better. Invitations to the nominated individuals to fulfil the Moderators role are to therefore be sent out over the next couple of weeks. It is hoped that soon after Triumfest UK 2014, CoM will be in a position to further update the membership with progress being made and the likely timescale of getting the TSSC Members Internet Forum up and running.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:28:08 +0000