As far as NOVA goes, I think online distribution is by far the best way. The size of the issue can vary month by month, dependent on content. It might even eventually be possible to move more to a web structure instead of PDF. Color photos can be included at no additional charge. Costs to the club go down. Postage costs disappear. Folks who don't have web access are in the minority, but they shouldn't be penalized. Maybe we could think of a good way to deal with those exceptions without getting all twisted up. Perhaps it would be possible to have a few CDs or even hard copies at meetings for people to pick up if they can't download for some reason. I don't like the dual dues structure at all. It says first class/ second class. I also think NOVA serves best as a recruitment tool when it serves the club best. There's no point in making it too flashy or with much repetitive marketing content. Any new members enticed by that stuff will probably fall away pretty quickly. I think that Ann's ideas about some 'human interest' stuff--stories about Bryce or whatever-- might be pretty neat. And please bury the minutes and board stuff somewhere on the web site. I'll read that when I'm having trouble sleeping. When non-members read NOVA (and it should definitely be freely available), they'll get a better idea of what the club is really like. Chuck expressed some concerns about club size and how the nature of a club changes when it goes from a small group to a larger group. My club back in Boston was about 350 members, but still ended up as a number of small groups. Some people focused on school star parties. Some focused on scope building. Some preferred to get away from the city with a handful of friends. The larger numbers allowed for those subgroups to form, while at the same time gave us a little clout to get good speakers at meetings. My only concern with growth is the kind of growth we can't support. By that, I mean large numbers of novices or people who need a lot of flash to stay interested. We certainly need novices to replace us older farts as we die off, but there's a big difference in bringing along a small group and a large one. So I believe the best way to advertise ourselves is to show what we are now and what we like to do. We should also give an idea of the things we could do with larger numbers. But growth purely for growth's sake is to be avoided. My 2 cents. MC