[AGA-Announce] No AGA Convention in 2005

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Looks like we need an official announcement on this.  It's not a rumor. 
It's true.  Scott has posted a link to a post he has made.  I've actually 
had the website updated with this information for nearly a month.  Sorry 
for not posting earlier!

It boils down to there just not being enough time to organize a convention 
of this magnitude in much less than a year.  We can stretch things "a 
little", as we have done for virtually every convention since we started, 
but there are vendors who work out their schedule a year in advance, 
magazines that have 6+month lead time, hotel bookings that can't be done 
last minute, etc etc.  It also boils down to needing a local group or club 
to champion the event.  While we were working with the one interested 
local group to try and help them pull a bid/proposal together for 2005, it 
just wasn't coming together quickly enough to work.  They're now working 
on a proposal for 2006, which I hope comes to fruition!

I know there were one or two people who e-mailed me and said "Man, *I* 
would have tried to organize something if I'd known there was going to be 
no convention!"  Do you want to insure there is a convention in 2006,
2007 and beyond?  Contact us!  Organize a bid!  Seriously, the groundwork 
starts now...

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
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