DB:STL

Saturday afternoon half a dozen of us gathered at the Napper's house. This was different than the meeting described before. This was not a meeting about building a DB chapter for the kids, but building one for the adults.

It's not a completely unheard of concept. I was involved with getting such a group going in New York City and others have sprung up in the Bay Area and LA. DB isn't really designed to have adult chapters but they are willing to accommodate the needs in the movement that are not being satisfied other ways.

As the NYC group has shown, these groups don't really need DB, but there are some perks if they choose to take them. It's more like the legal stuff of being under the DB 501(c)3 umbrella for fund raising and the like. But it is still a great resource for DB to find chaperons for various events. We have an event coming up in NYC and we'll likely have many of the members of the CS:NYC group helping.

It sounds like the crew in STL is good with being a DB chapter. We're still sorting out the best way for them to stay connected. There's a Facebook Group right now, but I don't think it's quite as powerful as the Yahoo! Groups system. Oh, I hope the new DB website will work as promised. Communication is such a vital key to all of this... and a close second is eliminating as much admin work as possible for the volunteers. They should just be blasting out an e-mail:"We're going camping next week. Come on!" and that's it.