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People who are doing the contact lists,
please read this message (or at least the end).
Jim C. wrote:
Here's an area that I can help with
too. If someone else sets up the
program/site for holding the list. I could also work the southeast from Florida area north. Everything is north from here. Dave writes:
I've offered to compile all of the lists
we put together for right now so I've been putting some thought (but
not enough time) into how we are going to divy this up. I've worked a
little off of The Krib and the Federation of American Aquarium Societies.
I have the entire list from FAAS in an Excel spreadsheet (which could easily be
transferred to a database), and I've been searching elsewhere for additional
clubs and such that are in the "Midwest". Basically, we're gaing to need
to divy this up by states (both United and elsewhere) so that we know what
Midwest, or North, or Southeastern means.
I don't have time right now to draw the
boundries, so I'll tell you what I'm taking. Everyone else list the states
(provinces, countries, whatever) that they feel are in the regions they
selected, and we'll see what happens. When I get back (on Tuesday or
Wednesday) I'll check to see what's left and put together a list at that
time.
Midwest, for now, is:
ND, SD, MN, IA, IL, WI, MI, IN, MO, KS,
NE.
For right now there is a rudimentry
"contact" listing located at:
(URL is case-sensitive, folks, and you
can't get to it from my regular home page)
I don't want people to not start on this
stuff just because they feel they might be duplicating someone else's
work. That is going to happen. This list is only the beginning
and the lists will have to be refined much further. So, if you send
James your listings, he will send them to me and I will publish the stuff out on
my web site. I could make it so that you can enter stuff directly onto the
site, but IMHO that poses more problems than just sending in a
list.
Technical tidbit: Plain text is the
best format right now, that way I don't have to worry about not being able to
read a Works file, or Access2000, or whatever.
Regards,
Dave VanderWall
Minneapolis, MN
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