FF:SA question about a star wars club.

I would just like to know if PARSEC is still operational. i used to be a member but due to family matters i was unable to go for a while and eventually forgot until recently.
i am aware that it was having problems with lack of members or something.
hope someone can help

Darth-Nash

 

Sorry, I cant help. Never heard of it

 

G'day D-N

Welcome to the boards. Unfortunately Parsec disbanded more than 12 months ago now. For Kooky and others who never knew about it, there was a group in Adelaide who got together once a month to dress up, watch videos, auction collectibles, share news, have quizes, etc, etc. It was quite sucessful for a number of years.

But fear not! You'll find quite a few ex-Parsec people have set up shop here, myself included. So D-N, I am sure you'll know a few of the people here - we might even know you.

 

What a pity, i really enjoyed those meetings. i recognize Adalia durron (sorry if spelt wrong). so hello to all those ex-parsec people out there

 

I don't know if you've trawled through all this board, but if you look in this thread

http://boards.theforce.net/South_Australia/b10630/15973397/p2

you'll see a link to this picture where you might see a few more recognisable faces

 

Hi all - first time post.

I for one am quite sad that PARSEC carked it. Myself and Steve and a couple of others put some thought into reviving it quite a while ago. Many good ideas were discussed, but due to my work commitments I couldn't commit.

I do however have all of the website stuff I did, and given that Episode III is coming out, a one off event would be great to have prior to the screening of the movie premiere. And I have all of summer to help do some organising.

Just a quick query - why doesn't the SA chapter appear on the Fanforce Oceana page? (http://fanforce.net/oz_nz/chapters.shtml) I only came across this forum by accident - I was actually looking into setting up an SA chapter on this board. Glad the hard work has been done!

Finally - hello to all of you who I haven't seen in a while. The photos of your gettogethers look, well, typcial of you guys' gettogethers . I hope everyone is doing well and Jen and I look forward to catching up with some of you again in the future.

 

G'day Oz-skipp - Good to see more crow-eaters appearing here I probably know who you are, but still scratching my head at the moment.

In answer to your question, well, Adalia-Durron asked the same question a few months ago, in the Victorian forum of all places , and not getting a satisfactory answer arranged to get the South Australia board established. From what I can gather, you need to have a number of FF events before you become offical. I believe we've just recently done that, so the SA chapter details should soon be appearing on the Fan Force pages.

It would be good to see some of the old Parsec photo's again.

 

The biggest problem I have at the moment is that I never had a full archive of the photos on the site (didn't have a CD burner at the time and I only had limited HD storage). Given that I only took over doing the website late in the clubs history I only really kept local copies of the pages I did.

I've emailed Kern Internet (the old hosts) numerous times and even left a phone message a few months back hoping that I could get copies from them (they should have backups I assume). No luck. I'm trying to work out if they are obtainable from http://web.archive.org/ but no luck so far They seem to have the site up but no piccies.

Doing a bit of research leads me to think Kern still had the domain up (but not with the site due to Parsec not being around to pay the internet bills!).

One thing I have noticed is that the other Australian FF groups have their own websites. I humbly offer my services to do one. Once my holidays kick in (6 weeks time or so). Lots to do between now and then. Grumble.

Edit: I've found some of the images archived. Looks like there are some good ones that can be salvaged. Like this one:

[image=http://web.archive.org/web/20020821040728/parsec.asn.au/AGM/9.jpg]

 

Sounds like stuff is happening again - excellent! Unfortunately I have several things on this Saturday night, including a Halloween party that night.

Next one maybe.

As far as the website goes, I'll get onto it. Once I've (a) finished work for the year and (b) once I've finished another website I'm working on at the moment.

 

Oops!

Might have to go for a drive then on Sunday night.