To reiterate, we need to have three events each year with 10 people participating in each event to maintain our LUG status.
At Q3, we tabled this discussion for Q4. Good idea bringing it up in advance to start to air out ideas and thoughts. Although I have no hard data at my fingertips as proof, my intuition is that the International Children’s Festival, Greenberg’s (November) and Santa Trolley have historically garnered the greatest amount of consistent group participation. Other annual events, like LVRR Train Show, Cranberry Library Summer Reading display, Greenberg’s (July), Pumpkin Trolley, and Cranberry First Night, have had variable participation rates year-to-year. So I would propose ICF, Greenberg’s (November), and Santa Trolley for 2018 as our LUG Support events. Also, S.W. Randall displays have arisen this year under Rich’s guidance and leadership. So that could also be nominated for a 2018 LUG Support event.
I don’t think we’re allowed to use conventions like PBF that are put on by for-profit groups… but I haven’t read the rules in a while.
As I recall, Lego has classified fan conventions as “private events”, even though they have a public component. Whatever the ultimate reason, my understanding is that fan conventions are NOT permitted to be used for LUG Support purposes.