Future of the JPSC

[petercoll]

We have reached an important point in the life of the JPSC, and we felt it was important to get your views on what we do next.

The JPSC has always been run by a small committee. There have been a few changes in personnel, but we have kept things ticking along over the years. Getting more people directly involved has been difficult, and this has limited what we have been able to do. The kit-car scene has quietened down too for a number of reasons.

Pete, the JPSC Chairman and Treasurer, will be stepping down in May this year, and will be stepping away from the kit car scene completely. This means we need new blood for the Committee to take the JPSC forward, and hopefully take it into new areas and activities. The current committee members already struggle to find the time they would like to spend on JPSC activities.

Would you like to join the committee ? Do you have a vision for how the club should move forward, and are you interested in helping make that happen ? If we don’t find new committee members, and we have to re-shape the club accordingly, how do you think the club should be run ?

We need your input. We are looking to gather your views on this over the next 4 to 5 weeks, so that we can have an agreed way forward in April, before Stoneleigh. We are posting this on the Chat List and the JPSC Forum.

Please let us know what you think, and how you think the club could go forward.

[jeffw]

So is the intention for us to post our thoughts here, respond to the email or use the Google group? While it is a serious question it is also an indication of the dilution of the club over many platforms..

[jeffw]

Nobody interested then....

[dopdog]

I read you post Jeff but did not like to comment as I am a tourist these days on the site

[The Knobs]

I read you post Jeff but did not like to comment as I am a tourist these days on the site

Go on Si, you know you want to

[petercoll]

So what's your view Jeff ?

To respond to your question, we had a specific request to set up a forum like this by members, who did not like the chat list email approach. If we had not set it up it then we could have been accused of ignoring members views, and this forum is much more visible on the wider internet than the chat list.

The chat list is also completely separate from the JPSC (just happens to be run/moderated by a common set of enthusiasts).

Pete

[matt_gsxr]

Yes, please post your comments/thoughts/ideas/dreams here.

[Paul AS]

Having been into kitcars twice, once before the recession and wide access to the internet, and now currently, the access to information on dozens of different sites on many different platforms is bewildering. The Kit Car scene is not as buoyant as it was, with little signs of improvement at manufacturer level and the legislation is getting more complex with every incarnation.

I am not being a harbinger of doom and gloom, but I am a realist. Jeremy Philips has been trying to sell Sylva Autokits in a very low key way for a while know, so the company we all know and love is due for major upheaval in the next few years. I like being the forum, but it is nowhere near as active as it used to be, and is never going to get the traffic of the likes of Pistonheads, Locostbuilders et al, due to the narrow niche our cars occupy.

If there is no appetite to maintain this forum, how feasible is it to piggyback onto one of the other high volume sites?

[jeffw]

At last....some views


I think the 'club forum' as it stands is dead in the water. The simple fact of the matter is there are too few active members spread across too many information outlets. The forum seems to have become a platform for me to spout on about sprinting and my car as I have significantly more posts than anyone else. I would love it to be otherwise but most of the things we do here could easily be covered by a Sylva section on Locostbuilders.

[jeffw]

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The top 4 posters are predominately talking about Sprinting....