I owned BMW motorcycles for over 35 years and was a member of the BMW Motorcycle Owners of America during this time. Each year the "club" would send out a book (some 238 pages) which contained listings of all BMW dealers, club information, travel information, etc.). As a member of the club one could chose to be listed (or not) and there were a number of "codes" that one could chose to be listed with their name and phone number. Members were listed by state and then by city in that state. Codes included things such as - camping or tent space, spare room, space available to work on motorcycle, working tools available, truck or trailer available, mechanical help, willingness to travel to help in emergency, etc.
With thousands of members and a full time office staff, this book was easier to assemble. In addition, advertising was sold to help defray the costs of publishing.
From what I read above it appears to me that with our numbers approaching 200 or so, some of us are starting to want things of this sort (rallies, member info). I don't think it is fair or wise to expect or want the factory to do this type of thing for us even though they already have much of the information needed to get it going. We already have a few of us that are closely associated with the factory (I'm thinking the Forum moderators here and, perhaps, a couple of others) that could be the nucleus of our "club". But, we need money and someone to take the "Oliver club by the hitch" in order to get it off the ground. This would be a great topic for our rally in May.
Bill