Paolo Diavolo wrote:
Who wants to travel?
Who wants a guest?

Lets all chip in.

Me.
Me.

Everyone chip in.

DivaEroticus wrote:

Me.
Me.

Everyone chip in.

you want to travel?
i''ll totally help fund that, and i can host ya too.

Koryn Locke wrote:
I might be in FL for a week in April. If anyone in that area wants to shoot, it can probably be arranged. I just prefer to discuss it privately via PM, because anyone I shoot with on this trip, I would like to sort of know first - meaning SF2ers or otherwise, folks I contact first.

come to the west coast please.
same offer as above.

Paolo Diavolo wrote:

you want to travel?
i''ll totally help fund that, and i can host ya too.

Paolo Diavolo wrote:

come to the west coast please.
same offer as above.

I can only travel when travel expenses (flight tickets, and a place to stay) are covered for me, such as it is in the FL trip situation. Otherwise, I don't have the money for it. I also have to arrange time off from my job now, so I can't just pack up and head off places, like I used to in the past.

Viral Photo wrote:
*Raises hand*

you're already on the list. haha.

Paolo Diavolo wrote:

you're already on the list. haha.

Better be!

Paolo Diavolo wrote:
this thread was originally a parody, but i was thinking after seeing the other move this person here threads, maybe we should create some sort of actual resource?

I offered in the OP of the move Mary thread if we couldn't do that here, then lock it. It went a different direction so that wasn't necessary. So I have to ask again... Is that type of thing allowed on MM? If not, we would need a different place to collab and organize it.

Marc Damon wrote:

I offered in the OP of the move Mary thread if we couldn't do that here, then lock it. It went a different direction so that wasn't necessary. So I have to ask again... Is that type of thing allowed on MM? If not, we would need a different place to collab and organize it.

I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed.
Its not really that much different than the secret santa stuff.

We'd have to have a list of hosts, a list of travelers, and funding.
Then a tour route that connects as many people as possible.

Gabrielle Heather wrote:
you already know I wanna visit

you already know i want you to visit.

Paolo Diavolo wrote:

I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed.
Its not really that much different than the secret santa stuff.

We'd have to have a list of hosts, a list of travelers, and funding.
Then a tour route that connects as many people as possible.

These are good ideas.  How do we go about acheiving it?

JSandersPhotography wrote:

These are good ideas.  How do we go about acheiving it?

Well it will be easy to get a list of people willing to travel, and a list of hosts.
We can just start a sign up thread.

I suspect the more difficult part will be deciding who travels, and how to fund the trip:

Does each member who wants to travel sign up for an account and everyone else apply funds until that person can make a trip?
How do we determine the destination?

Or should everyone pay $5 a month into an account? and then when it accumulates enough to pay for a trip we select a random member and travel route?

Or, do we go by regions?
For example I am in the San Francisco Bay.
Does our local group make a pool of money, and then from the list of traveling members, we select those who want to come to San Francisco. Then we vote on which member's trip to fund?

I guess the last one would make the most sense.

Paolo Diavolo wrote:
Who wants to travel?
Who wants a guest?

Lets all chip in.

Shouldn't they have given us a private island by now..?

But ferr serious, good idea(:

Presley ONeil wrote:

Shouldn't they have given us a private island by now..?

But ferr serious, good idea(:

private island?
now thats a good idea!

Paolo Diavolo wrote:

private island?
now thats a good idea!

(-: I try

Jim Shibley wrote:
Maybe for the AZ Shootout?

You don't have far to travel for that, Jim.   

Jay Pegg wrote:
There's always room in KCMO for MMers.

Same in Des Moines, though I'm more of a stopover

Also, I travel to KCMO for the right MMers.

Paolo Diavolo wrote:

Well it will be easy to get a list of people willing to travel, and a list of hosts.
We can just start a sign up thread.

I suspect the more difficult part will be deciding who travels, and how to fund the trip:

Does each member who wants to travel sign up for an account and everyone else apply funds until that person can make a trip?
How do we determine the destination?

Or should everyone pay $5 a month into an account? and then when it accumulates enough to pay for a trip we select a random member and travel route?

Or, do we go by regions?
For example I am in the San Francisco Bay.
Does our local group make a pool of money, and then from the list of traveling members, we select those who want to come to San Francisco. Then we vote on which member's trip to fund?

I guess the last one would make the most sense.

The regions idea probably is the most practical, however I can see a few flaws with it.  1: Regional imbalance.  There's a lot of folks in Cali, and over east, not so much here.  2:  I can see this idea becoming very much a popularity contest.  Everyone's got someone they'd like to work with, I know I do, while the rest of us in sparser regions, or lesser known folk get left out.  I'm not saying it won't work, just throwing out some things I think we'd need to deal with.

JSandersPhotography wrote:

The regions idea probably is the most practical, however I can see a few flaws with it.  1: Regional imbalance.  There's a lot of folks in Cali, and over east, not so much here.  2:  I can see this idea becoming very much a popularity contest.  Everyone's got someone they'd like to work with, I know I do, while the rest of us in sparser regions, or lesser known folk get left out.  I'm not saying it won't work, just throwing out some things I think we'd need to deal with.

totally agree with your points.
is there any thoughts on how to balance it?

Paolo Diavolo wrote:

totally agree with your points.
is there any thoughts on how to balance it?

The regional imbalance, I'm not sure.  As for the popularity contest...there could be a rotation, something like "you can't be chosen to travel twice in a row." and give some waiting period.  Say you have to wait two "voting cycles" for lack of a better name.