With these shortfalls in mind, different groups of people were talking about the possibility of organizing these individual efforts into a more systematic form. In summer of 2004 some of these networking pioneers finally got together and undertook a full-fledged feasibility study on the eventual establishment of a society for Iranian engineers and architects in Ottawa. One of the greatest assets of this founding group was the great diversity of its members' background, in terms of age, expertise, and number of years spent in Canada. Although it seemed at the beginning that it might be quite a challenge to build consensus among such a varied group, CSIEA has so far clearly demonstrated that this diversity enriched the group by providing complementary skills, and viewpoints.