Akhullar, that is the understatement of the year.

But as for the following issues that have been brought up:

1. Threads get buried: A good example is SCL Do in Nov, it was brought up quite a few months in advance (as was the DUS do), and of course it will be buried, yet it has been brought back to life many times by those interested in going. As the dates get closer to the Do Date the thread gains quite a bit more ink time. As for the Dus do well I just missed it in my rush to post a list prior to a meeting this a.m. However my point was in about two minutes you can glance at all the available do's to date.

2. going back to the "if FT Community was for meetings and gatherings" rather than happy birthday everyone, appreciation threads, five different threads on one weekend, etc. all the do's would fit on one or two pages and you could view all the do's in less than a minute as well as the ability to go into the thread to find out more detail on that particular do. In short lets clean up what we already have.

3. Some want to glance at a calender to plan a trip.. however from what I see;

a) many of the smaller do's are made when a trip is made by someone and someone announces that they will be in XYZ city and asks if anyone wants to get together,
b) as for the large do's, those are known quite well in advance anyway.
c) For the weekend web savers, either glance at whats up.. if it isn't posted by the time you have to buy a websaver.. it probably isn't scheduled.. then see (a)

4) as Jan_Az said, someone could control the Do list and decide what does and does not go on. Such as when there are conflicting do's such as YYZ and PDX. Do's don't have to be postponed just b/c another gathering is taken place elsewhere

5. For those of you who want a calender, use what we have!!!!!!

We have a calender that anyone can use.. I went to look at it tonight, its fine, other than the fact that that calender and the other two calenders which sort by city and flight are just not used, plain and simple. I think that statement says a it in a nutshell.

6. Finally where would this new calender be? Would it replace the Events Calender that we already have? Is it sanctioned by the board owner? Who selects what goes in it? Do we start listing birthdays, anniversary's, etc in it??? if not, who makes this decision? In the end we run into the same issues that FT community runs into