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LUV2MINI · Feb 24th, 2003, 05:39 AM

unfortunately i don't think i can make to the run on sunday cause the university has dumped 3 largish assignments on me already which are due in 3 weeks but i think i can make it to the meeting on wednesday provided it on at night time

AussieMini · Feb 24th, 2003, 05:49 AM

The meeting's on at 5:30 at Brisbane BMW's boardroom. So you could call that night(ish).

Geez what uni would put assignments on you already. Obviously not a good one like QUT (my Uni).

LUV2MINI · Feb 24th, 2003, 05:57 AM

well actually it is QUT what are you studying there

AussieMini · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:00 AM

I am not studying anything there now. I did Business Communications and Marketing there. I graduated Feb last year.

Desperate to do may masters though. However, I think I'll do that at UQ 'cos they seem to have a better Journalism School there. Oh yes, and I want my work to pay for it.

AussieMini · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:01 AM

What are you studying?

CooPz · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:01 AM

AHEM. on topic please hehe

I agree with Swamos and I think thats a good agenda, keep it simple and hear what everyone has to say. Anyone else have suggestions for the Agenda?

LUV2MINI · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:05 AM

opps yeah i know this is the meetings forum and then i going about uni crap anyways
yeah i shall try my best to be there unless they drop more work on me
I am studying Interior Archietecture
Yeah i suppose UQ has a better name internationally i did my B Commerce degree there and had a great time socially hehe but the lecturers are much more "Old time thinkers" verus QUT

jasemini · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by CooPz
AHEM. on topic please hehe

I agree with Swamos and I think thats a good agenda, keep it simple and hear what everyone has to say. Anyone else have suggestions for the Agenda?

Yep exactly. I think that we all have a fairly common opinion of what we'd like. From what Danny has told me Wednesday night will clarify via a ballot which way we go as far as NEW club or join one of the existing clubs. It will give us all a chance to meet in one place and form a common directive in which to approach BMW/MINI in the immediate future.

We'll then all get one of them there BIG ASS KEBABS that Danny introduced us to at West End

mmmmmm.

AussieMini · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:21 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by CooPz
AHEM. on topic please hehe

I agree with Swamos and I think thats a good agenda, keep it simple and hear what everyone has to say. Anyone else have suggestions for the Agenda?

Nope I have nothing else to add. I think it'll be short and sweet and one swift swoop. As for costs.

CAMS affilliation for a club of less than 41 members:
$440 per year (we could add to the cost if we get more members). This gives us $100,000,000 in liability insurance plus all CAMS benifits.

Marque Club affiliation charges a flat $5 per member if we decide to go that way rather than CAMS. Looking at Marque, they would seem to suit our needs better because we're more social than competitive. But this could be sorted out.

Incorporation fees $93.90 with a $33 per charge year for annual returns.

As for a constitution. CAMS said we can adapt Fair Trading's free model constitution and change it at a later date if need be. I have been going through it and we could make a few changes but it's neither here nor there.

I went into CAMS this afternoon and got all the low down and they said these are our only costs in total. So bugger all really for a fully incorporated and fully insured club.

The only other thing we'd worry about is a newsletter. I wouldn't see this as a problem because I'm a journo, Cjay's a photographer, Simon's a graphic designer and Jasemini's an advertiser. All of the group seem to have email and could be distributed via email and PDF format. Any others who may join down the track without email could have their's printed out and mailed.

After talking indepth with a few of the MOC club executives yesterday (nice guys by the way) they concured these would be our only start up charges. Please someone tell me if CAMS and the MOC are wrong.

Other than that... Play Ball!!!

AussieMini · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:25 AM

Not to say other people in our group couldn't do anything. We have IT people so I recon we could have the best website known to man! Something with a bit of Macromedia on it would be great!!!

If and when the time comes we can chat about what each person can give back to the club.

CooPz · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:26 AM

Hey Danny, can we employ a spell checker for Jase? hehehe

AussieMini · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by CooPz
Hey Danny, can we employ a spell checker for Jase? hehehe

I know as soon as I post this agreeing with you James someone will find a typo in mine.

jasemini · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by CooPz
Hey Danny, can we employ a spell checker for Jase? hehehe

HMMMM NO COMMENT

I'm gonna go home and cry myself to sleep on my embrioded MINI logo pillow

good (sob, sob) night fellas. I'll (sob, sob) talk to you tomorrow

Jase

JugMan · Feb 24th, 2003, 12:28 PM

Okay, I'd put off making some kind of comment into this club, but I dunno.

Though everyone's always accepted me really welcomingly, I sometimes think that it might be nice to not just have a club of owners, but also of enthusiasts. Maybe I'm just looking out for number 1 (me), but I would like to be affiliated with this club, don't wanna feel like an outsider because I don't own a mini, even though that probably wouldn't be the case...

I guess it's not something HUGELY important, but I think it might just be important enough to mention.

Cheers guys,
Jug

swamos · Feb 24th, 2003, 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by JugMan
Okay, I'd put off making some kind of comment into this club, but I dunno.

Though everyone's always accepted me really welcomingly, I sometimes think that it might be nice to not just have a club of owners, but also of enthusiasts. Maybe I'm just looking out for number 1 (me), but I would like to be affiliated with this club, don't wanna feel like an outsider because I don't own a mini, even though that probably wouldn't be the case...

I guess it's not something HUGELY important, but I think it might just be important enough to mention.

Cheers guys,
Jug

Jug, there are two basic streams of car clubs, car/marque oriented ones, and general or sporting clubs. There are already a number of excellent general car clubs, such as the Brisbane Sporting Car Club.

While I understand your idea, I tend to think we've got our work cut out for us as it is, just making a MINI club.

Just because you don't have a MINI at the moment doesn't mean you would be precluded from participating (I would hope). You're still very young now, but in a couple of years time when you are earning $$ you might end up picking up a flogged Mini (such as Ausmini's

)for as little as $15k. Then you will enter the realm of MINIdom.

For now we can annoint you the clubs "Aspirational Member".

CooPz · Feb 24th, 2003, 11:02 PM

a good point Jugman, I think some peoples spouses will want to join as well and so I can't see why we would limit who can join to who has a car, I think the Anti discrimination laws preclude us from being able to restrict on that basis anyway ( Studying my Anti discrimination laws heavily for my Real Estate Agent exams)

swamos · Feb 26th, 2003, 02:31 AM

So, are we all set for tonight???

I'd like to propose another agenda item.

4. Development of a secret MINI handshake

JugMan · Feb 26th, 2003, 02:39 AM

I'm not big on organizational skills myself, so plz confirm -

What is on tonight???:S
Where?
When?
Who?
Need to bring anything?
blah blah blah

CooPz · Feb 26th, 2003, 05:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by swamos
So, are we all set for tonight???

I'd like to propose another agenda item.

4. Development of a secret MINI handshake

ohh I say it's activating our headlight washers whilst facing each other!.. I knew they'd come in handy. Oh wait I'm discriminating against those poor souls with out xenons Mwahaha

AussieMini · Feb 26th, 2003, 11:52 AM

Well after much debate both on and offline, it was unanomously decided tonight with 10 MINI lovers/drivers present that Queensland will start the first MINI Club targeted directly at New MINIs. However, while Classic Minis won't be decriminated against, the club's primary focus will on the New version.

Watch this space for more details.

Feb 24th, 2003, 06:01 AM	#86 (permalink)
CooPz 3M TA3 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Gold Coast Australi Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 221 Offline	AHEM. on topic please hehe I agree with Swamos and I think thats a good agenda, keep it simple and hear what everyone has to say. Anyone else have suggestions for the Agenda? So I says to the cops, I says, "nah mate, that wasn't my tyres screeching, that was my passengers"

Feb 24th, 2003, 06:19 AM	#88 (permalink)
jasemini MINI2 Senior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Brisbane - Queenslan Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 421 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by CooPz AHEM. on topic please hehe I agree with Swamos and I think thats a good agenda, keep it simple and hear what everyone has to say. Anyone else have suggestions for the Agenda? Yep exactly. I think that we all have a fairly common opinion of what we'd like. From what Danny has told me Wednesday night will clarify via a ballot which way we go as far as NEW club or join one of the existing clubs. It will give us all a chance to meet in one place and form a common directive in which to approach BMW/MINI in the immediate future. We'll then all get one of them there BIG ASS KEBABS that Danny introduced us to at West End mmmmmm. 02 MCS gone after 2 years of fun and new friends, and 10 visits to the service dept at Brisbane BMW. You don't know the meaning of practical until you've owned a Camry! (seriously it's not a bad car though )

Feb 24th, 2003, 06:26 AM	#91 (permalink)
CooPz 3M TA3 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Gold Coast Australi Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 221 Offline	Hey Danny, can we employ a spell checker for Jase? hehehe So I says to the cops, I says, "nah mate, that wasn't my tyres screeching, that was my passengers"

Feb 24th, 2003, 06:56 AM	#93 (permalink)
jasemini MINI2 Senior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Brisbane - Queenslan Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 421 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by CooPz Hey Danny, can we employ a spell checker for Jase? hehehe HMMMM NO COMMENT I'm gonna go home and cry myself to sleep on my embrioded MINI logo pillow good (sob, sob) night fellas. I'll (sob, sob) talk to you tomorrow Jase 02 MCS gone after 2 years of fun and new friends, and 10 visits to the service dept at Brisbane BMW. You don't know the meaning of practical until you've owned a Camry! (seriously it's not a bad car though )

Feb 24th, 2003, 11:02 PM	#96 (permalink)
CooPz 3M TA3 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Gold Coast Australi Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 221 Offline	a good point Jugman, I think some peoples spouses will want to join as well and so I can't see why we would limit who can join to who has a car, I think the Anti discrimination laws preclude us from being able to restrict on that basis anyway ( Studying my Anti discrimination laws heavily for my Real Estate Agent exams) So I says to the cops, I says, "nah mate, that wasn't my tyres screeching, that was my passengers"

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Feb 24th, 2003, 05:39 AM	#81
LUV2MINI MINI2 Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Brisvegas Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 104 Offline	unfortunately i don't think i can make to the run on sunday cause the university has dumped 3 largish assignments on me already which are due in 3 weeks but i think i can make it to the meeting on wednesday provided it on at night time

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Feb 24th, 2003, 05:49 AM	#82 (permalink)
AussieMini MINI2 Senior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Brisbane Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 687 Offline	The meeting's on at 5:30 at Brisbane BMW's boardroom. So you could call that night(ish). Geez what uni would put assignments on you already. Obviously not a good one like QUT (my Uni).

Feb 24th, 2003, 05:57 AM	#83 (permalink)
LUV2MINI MINI2 Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Brisvegas Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 104 Offline	well actually it is QUT what are you studying there

Feb 24th, 2003, 06:00 AM	#84 (permalink)
AussieMini MINI2 Senior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Brisbane Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 687 Offline	I am not studying anything there now. I did Business Communications and Marketing there. I graduated Feb last year. Desperate to do may masters though. However, I think I'll do that at UQ 'cos they seem to have a better Journalism School there. Oh yes, and I want my work to pay for it.

Feb 24th, 2003, 06:01 AM	#85 (permalink)
AussieMini MINI2 Senior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Brisbane Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 687 Offline	What are you studying?

Feb 24th, 2003, 06:05 AM	#87 (permalink)
LUV2MINI MINI2 Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Brisvegas Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 104 Offline	opps yeah i know this is the meetings forum and then i going about uni crap anyways yeah i shall try my best to be there unless they drop more work on me I am studying Interior Archietecture Yeah i suppose UQ has a better name internationally i did my B Commerce degree there and had a great time socially hehe but the lecturers are much more "Old time thinkers" verus QUT

Feb 24th, 2003, 06:21 AM	#89 (permalink)
AussieMini MINI2 Senior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Brisbane Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 687 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by CooPz AHEM. on topic please hehe I agree with Swamos and I think thats a good agenda, keep it simple and hear what everyone has to say. Anyone else have suggestions for the Agenda? Nope I have nothing else to add. I think it'll be short and sweet and one swift swoop. As for costs. CAMS affilliation for a club of less than 41 members: $440 per year (we could add to the cost if we get more members). This gives us $100,000,000 in liability insurance plus all CAMS benifits. Marque Club affiliation charges a flat $5 per member if we decide to go that way rather than CAMS. Looking at Marque, they would seem to suit our needs better because we're more social than competitive. But this could be sorted out. Incorporation fees $93.90 with a $33 per charge year for annual returns. As for a constitution. CAMS said we can adapt Fair Trading's free model constitution and change it at a later date if need be. I have been going through it and we could make a few changes but it's neither here nor there. I went into CAMS this afternoon and got all the low down and they said these are our only costs in total. So bugger all really for a fully incorporated and fully insured club. The only other thing we'd worry about is a newsletter. I wouldn't see this as a problem because I'm a journo, Cjay's a photographer, Simon's a graphic designer and Jasemini's an advertiser. All of the group seem to have email and could be distributed via email and PDF format. Any others who may join down the track without email could have their's printed out and mailed. After talking indepth with a few of the MOC club executives yesterday (nice guys by the way) they concured these would be our only start up charges. Please someone tell me if CAMS and the MOC are wrong. Other than that... Play Ball!!!

Feb 24th, 2003, 06:25 AM	#90 (permalink)
AussieMini MINI2 Senior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Brisbane Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 687 Offline	Not to say other people in our group couldn't do anything. We have IT people so I recon we could have the best website known to man! Something with a bit of Macromedia on it would be great!!! If and when the time comes we can chat about what each person can give back to the club.

Feb 24th, 2003, 06:30 AM	#92 (permalink)
AussieMini MINI2 Senior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Brisbane Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 687 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by CooPz Hey Danny, can we employ a spell checker for Jase? hehehe I know as soon as I post this agreeing with you James someone will find a typo in mine.

Feb 24th, 2003, 12:28 PM	#94 (permalink)
JugMan MINI2 Senior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Brisbane - North Side Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 503 Offline	Okay, I'd put off making some kind of comment into this club, but I dunno. Though everyone's always accepted me really welcomingly, I sometimes think that it might be nice to not just have a club of owners, but also of enthusiasts. Maybe I'm just looking out for number 1 (me), but I would like to be affiliated with this club, don't wanna feel like an outsider because I don't own a mini, even though that probably wouldn't be the case... I guess it's not something HUGELY important, but I think it might just be important enough to mention. Cheers guys, Jug

Feb 24th, 2003, 10:05 PM	#95 (permalink)
swamos MINI Traitor Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Brisbane, Australia Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 4,985 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by JugMan Okay, I'd put off making some kind of comment into this club, but I dunno. Though everyone's always accepted me really welcomingly, I sometimes think that it might be nice to not just have a club of owners, but also of enthusiasts. Maybe I'm just looking out for number 1 (me), but I would like to be affiliated with this club, don't wanna feel like an outsider because I don't own a mini, even though that probably wouldn't be the case... I guess it's not something HUGELY important, but I think it might just be important enough to mention. Cheers guys, Jug Jug, there are two basic streams of car clubs, car/marque oriented ones, and general or sporting clubs. There are already a number of excellent general car clubs, such as the Brisbane Sporting Car Club. While I understand your idea, I tend to think we've got our work cut out for us as it is, just making a MINI club. Just because you don't have a MINI at the moment doesn't mean you would be precluded from participating (I would hope). You're still very young now, but in a couple of years time when you are earning $$ you might end up picking up a flogged Mini (such as Ausmini's )for as little as $15k. Then you will enter the realm of MINIdom. For now we can annoint you the clubs "Aspirational Member".

Feb 26th, 2003, 02:31 AM	#97 (permalink)
swamos MINI Traitor Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Brisbane, Australia Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 4,985 Offline	So, are we all set for tonight??? I'd like to propose another agenda item. 4. Development of a secret MINI handshake

Feb 26th, 2003, 02:39 AM	#98 (permalink)
JugMan MINI2 Senior Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Brisbane - North Side Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 503 Offline	I'm not big on organizational skills myself, so plz confirm - What is on tonight???:S Where? When? Who? Need to bring anything? blah blah blah

Feb 26th, 2003, 05:36 AM	#99 (permalink)
CooPz 3M TA3 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Gold Coast Australi Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 221 Offline	Quote: Originally posted by swamos So, are we all set for tonight??? I'd like to propose another agenda item. 4. Development of a secret MINI handshake ohh I say it's activating our headlight washers whilst facing each other!.. I knew they'd come in handy. Oh wait I'm discriminating against those poor souls with out xenons Mwahaha So I says to the cops, I says, "nah mate, that wasn't my tyres screeching, that was my passengers"

Feb 26th, 2003, 11:52 AM	#100 (permalink)
AussieMini MINI2 Senior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Brisbane Local Time: 06:17 AM Posts: 687 Offline	Well after much debate both on and offline, it was unanomously decided tonight with 10 MINI lovers/drivers present that Queensland will start the first MINI Club targeted directly at New MINIs. However, while Classic Minis won't be decriminated against, the club's primary focus will on the New version. Watch this space for more details.

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