If you don’t mind going to Victoria, I’ve got the room for a medium to large group.

Hmmmm. Not a bad idea at all. `Twere best done quickly, as people's schedules tend to fill up with Christmas parties and the like.

If it could be worked into everybody's schedule, it would be great to put some more faces on the names.

Faces with names....absolutely ! Might be tough before the holidays though. Less pressure after the 1st. Work and pleasure? Instructor association meeting and party?

HEY, some of “us” aren’t instructors.

Well, maybe except for Pakrat, who has an honorary membership in the fraternity.

No reason that all interested parties can't attend an instructor org meeting, is there? I mean, we'll have no secrets, right?

At worst, business, then pleasure, with the party part open to all.

Mid-January may be the way to go.

Say, what was the idea for a “party?

Was it so we, who have a common interest, could get to know each other and put a face with a name (handle)?

Or is it so trainers could meet and greet, for the purpose of forming an organization?

Why not both? I suspect there is a lot of overlap between the two.

They go hand in hand..............also my thought is that an instructor org association should be open to anyone.....everyone, after all, is a potential instructor

And there should be no secrets......look what almost happened last round.
When you have a group of people with common interests each person brings additional brainpower/manpower and unique contacts to the group.

Maybe more imortant than where, but what day is best for all? I would think a Sunday, or Saturday, but then again, what time of day? Some that I would think that would like to attend have travel time involved and I would think a week night would be bad for them. Me, I travel to the metro area for work a couple times a week, so a week night is perfectly workable for me.