ISO New SCCLA members

LeatherSchmooze was really small last night, but productive. Summer often means fewer folks make weekday events. The SCCLA is once again looking at who we are and where we should be putting our energy. It became strikingly clear that with only 32 official members, perhaps half of whom regularly participate in putting events on, we just can't do the larger events we have done in the past. And we also observed that we're not getting new people in at any useful rate. So we discussed a lot of option on getting more folks to participate. I like the idea of modeling Screwup or Exiles, doing a monthly or quarterly activity or discussion focused gathering, with specific topics (types of play, relationship, etc).This encourages members to share what they know (and I think non-profit peer education is a core leather "thing"), and encourages new folks to come check out the group. At least that's the way I hope it would work.

Anyone have a favorite/successful way of getting new members iinto a leather club?

There may be escape from document control hell at work! A long-sought meeting here at work finally occurred, and, astonishingly, we got a process entirely outlined. And in just over an hour. Hopefully, things will go more smoothly going forward for actually releasing manuals.

The poison oak is much better... save I am still searching out contaminated areas (such as different pieces of my car, my running clothes...). Am doing my best to look at it as an opportunity to make more of my stuff clean, rather than be merely driven crazy by it. I really liked what ladyhilary posted, about "enhancing one's already graceful life" in the face of adversity (not that poison oak is all that huge in the adversity scale LOL, even when one is allergic to it).

Yea for Friday.