Re: Name Changes

["James Purchase" <jpurch@interlog.com>]

Please refer to Erik's last message for references to this stuff -

Re - name changes - fine by me - I like the fact that we shall call it
"showcase" rather than "contest".

Re - announcement - you want to announce next Friday????????? The AGA MC
hasn't said boo to me about final approval yet.... so we don't even know for
sure if this is a go or not. We also haven't heard any further change
requests that they might have - especially the entry fee for AGA members
issue.

The BIGGEST thing which needs to be discussed (other than finalizing the web
site, which is coming along very nicely) is the TIMING. It takes a minimun
of 4 months for some print publications to get something into print from the
time they receive notice of it. I know that we are concentrating mainly on
e-mail contact but we shall HAVE to time this so that people who find out
via TAG, AFM, TFH, etc. have a chance to prepare and submit an entry. This
would probably mean at LEAST another 2 month space following the time those
magazines hit the stands. The judges will need time (at least a month,
possibly two) to review the entries after the "closing date" before we can
have an "announcement of winners", which I would REALLY like to happen in
the year 2000.

It is the middle of March now. "IF" the AGA MC can give us a decision VERY
soon, I can get some letters prepared for the various magazines and get them
out by the 1st of April. That takes us to the end of July. Two more months
on that takes us to the end of September.

What about a closing date for entries of September 30th, 2000. If we give
ourselves (and the judges) 2 months to finalize things, we could announce
the winners on November 30th, 2000. This would avoid the bulk of the
"Christmas rush" in the post office if prizes and awards have to be sent
out.

I'd like to hear some spirited debate over the timing issue. Please feel
free to speak up if you have any ideas or opinions about the timing I'm
proposing.

Don't forget that we also need to discuss who is going to judge this, but
for the announcement it isn't necessary for us to have specific names of
judges.

Re: the text for the "Welcome" page - I've been holding off on this, waiting
to hear from the AGA. Until they tell me one way or another if this is a go
or not, and/or if they are going to request further changes, it is difficult
to write anything describing the event.

Re: the photos from Wim and Amano - sprinkle them around the site as you see
fit (you may want to resize them so that they load faster, some of them are
huge files)

As for photos of tanks OTHER than plant tanks - I'd love to see some, but
there are over a dozen people reading this who could possibly be sources -
does ANYONE maintain a nice Rift Lake aquascape or Paludarium that we could
use?????

James Purchase
Toronto

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