Dear Michelle,
In response to your question, it isn't neccessary to join but it does
provide a way to communicate between all the anime clubs in sydney and
also to plan events which involve the anime club community.
So what you get in joining in the community is a board dedicated to
your club on
www.animesydney.org with a link to your site too. There
is also an exec board dedicated to planning stuff etc. You also get to
be apart of the AnimeSydney Card program which is relatively new and
gives you discounts with online anime stores and a few places around
the city such as passionflower. Its still a work in progress and
hopefully will be up and running shortly. You also get your say in our
joint events held with the other clubs and also be apart of our
animesydney meetings to find out what other clubs are doing. As such
it also acts as a valuable support tool in case you need assistance
with any club issues as we've all been involved in organising an anime
club before too. Basically the main idea behind it is all community
and social interaction between all clubs.
Of course to reassure you, we're not asking anything to do with
merging funds or anything nor do we want you to change how your club
is currently run. All our clubs have different rules due to different
Unions and we wouldnt want to do anything that would disrupt funding
from the union which means good audits are important.
If there's any other questions, feel free to ask.
Thanks,
~Steven Zhu
SUAnime Vice President 09
AnimeSydney Publicity Director