Re: AGA Contest

[Karen Randall <krandall@world.std.com>]

At 02:19 PM 2/26/2000 -0500, Mary wrote: 

>
> Are there any other perks we could offer our members?  What about taking 10%
> off book store purchases?


The book store itself is already an AGA perk.  It is not available to anyone
who is not a member.  It is not meant to be a money-making venture, only a
service where our members can purchase books that would be difficult to find
otherwise.

>
> Regarding point 4, "A list of Plant Species," a common name is of less value
> than a scientific name, especially I would think in an international
> contest.  Think of all the confusion around the common names for the various
> species of Vallisneria.  Instead of "(either common names and/or scientific
> names, if known),"  I would suggest "(scientific and/or common names)."  This
> change in emphasis would I think make it more likely that the entrant would
> put down the scientific name.  As many of you know, the policy of TAG is to
> use scientific names as much as possible for educational reasons, and I
> suggest that in the contest we adopt the same policy.


Good catch.  I think that's an important change.

>
> #6.  I think the substrate is important information and doesn't really
> qualify as decorative material.  If it were up to me, I would leave the
> substrate in and leave the other stuff out because from the pictures, the
> other decorative elements should be self-explanatory.


I didn't notice that details on substrate were not asked for.  I think this is
pretty important information also.

>
> I have the feeling that James is rather sensitive about making changes to his
> proposal.  In my mind the most important change would be to in some way put
> more emphasis on the importance of including the scientific name. 


I suspect if you sent these changes to James, he would be happy to make them. 
I think they are easy to institute, and would be improvements.
 
>
> In his response to Ken, I think James makes a valid comment about a financial
> statement not being made available to members in TAG.  Do we have a budget? 
> If not, isn't this something we should consider?


We should have a budget, but we don't yet.

Karen

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