I guess we need to review the history of this issue every now and then. As a prior President of POCA, I reached out to Chuck with the offer that POCA would fund his website and create a new position on the POCA Board for him to preserve control of his website. I emphasized our desire to create a way to perpetuate his effort when he no longer had the motivation, funds, or heartbeat to maintain it. I told Chuck that the POCA Board would amend the By-Laws to create the position and confirm his authority. Chuck was uncomfortable ceding any control of the website to POCA. I'll respect his privacy on the details. However, he had an unsatisfactory event with his POCA chapter that left him feeling betrayed. While he was kind to communicate that he trusted me, he wasn't confident future POCA Administrations would respect our agreement even if in writing.
Concurrent to this, Jeff Dietrich and others were very thorough in exploring the effort required to build an alternative site. Initiatives were started to attempt the exercise. All overwhelming for the human resources available. Admittedly, one path not taken was a generous offer from Terry Himes to use software, considered by others to be unique to his skill set, at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I was apprised, by those with greater computer literacy then my own, that we may end up with an orphan down the road. Apparently, it was a language not all that common and after Terry's enthusiasm waned, who next?
My Presidency concluded and the conversation resurfaces on the Forum every few years about why someone doesn't do this as if it is a new idea. The truth, as I see it, is that it is a welcome initiative. However, beyond the talent and time commitment of a volunteer POCA Board. The world and this forum seem to have a lot of managers or people with good ideas and intentions; however, fewer who can commit to the effort as a volunteer.
Perhaps with current web software progress, the scope of this initiative is reasonable today and manageable by a motivated soldier. Maybe one will step up.
We have all griped about the klunkiness of Chuck's website. Yet to date, I think he is the only DeTomaso owner to make this commitment and at no charge. Pretty impressive.