5SGTE
Would you still need to join Facebook though? Profiling is the least of the many dislikes I have towards Facebook

I would hope not, however we would need to see what Eric et al. come up with.
 
 
my 2c...

• Maintain the public Forums at the primary source of info and discussion (run calendar, run attendance thread, saved conversation history, easier to search).
• Cross-post info / links to a private Facebook group - either "Brisbane MR2 Crew" or a new group if required (off the record banter for those who 'like' Facebook).
• Create a private Google Apps group (or write and maintain a webpage) to act as an email distribution list, shared calendar and document store for run sheets (and maps), official club info and restricted Committee only info (eg. member list & financials).

This takes the burden of distributing Run Sheets and last minute updates away from the Forum interface, but maintains public access / awareness of the Qld Club for new visitors.  Contact details (email / phone) have already been collected from members which are used to define access/permissions for Google Apps documents and calendars. Leave facebook to do what it does best - short term questions, inane banter & photos of cats cars.
 
 
 

One thing our forum could benefit from would be a "Chat Box" function for registered users. I used to be a regular user on a Lancer Forum and we had one - it was always handy if you had a quick question but didn't know who to ask, so it helps keep thread "fluff" down and can actually be a source of entertainment for those of us that sit on the forum homepage refreshing out of boredom.

Here's a screencap of the Lancer "shoutbox" I'm referring to. Just a note though, they never used to have that "no car questions" rule (Haven't used that forum in 1year+). Personally I find that silly, it's great for quick "help" situations

EssDub
A specific Facebook page should be used as an extension of communication for this site, not as a copy of the information provided on this main site.  It should be used to provide incentive to sign up to the forums to gain access to all other facets of the organization.

If I understand correctly, you propose a facebook model similar to a commercial website / company engagement?  I think that has its merits, however it think it takes away from the social aspect of the club and how individuals use facebook opposed to how a company maintains a social media profile.
 
I like the Toymods facebook model - main page for "an extension of communication" news etc. for the website & forum plus a private facebook group for member only discussion.

I see your sleeping patters and raise you location tracking and prediction...
 
 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep01376?ial=1 
 

Nature
Abstract
We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human mobility traces are highly unique. In fact, in a dataset where the location of an individual is specified hourly, and with a spatial resolution equal to that given by the carrier's antennas, four spatio-temporal points are enough to uniquely identify 95% of the individuals. We coarsen the data spatially and temporally to find a formula for the uniqueness of human mobility traces given their resolution and the available outside information. This formula shows that the uniqueness of mobility traces decays approximately as the 1/10 power of their resolution. Hence, even coarse datasets provide little anonymity. These findings represent fundamental constraints to an individual's privacy and have important implications for the design of frameworks and institutions dedicated to protect the privacy of individuals.

 
I'm far more concerned with the data held by Mobile Phone & Internet Network Providers, Credit Card Issuers and Local Government Authorities (tracking number plates and Bluetooh MAC addresses).  Unlike Facebook, the afore mentioned organisations have access to my real name, DOB, address etc.