Re: Details for AGA-AQTN2000

[Neil Frank <nfrank@mindspring.com>]

Karen, 
I would reserve the name Aquatic Plant Summit for the real thing. Summit
means peak or climax. This is the planning meeting or pre-summit, so a more
appropriate title is something like "First North American Aquarium Plant
Conference"... sponsored by the AGA and the TN Aquarium.  My impression is
that summits are only attended by the top people... this makes it sound too
exclusive and I don't think that is what we want for this first gathering.
You can still include "Planning Committee Meeting for International Aquatic
Plant Summit 2001" as one of the activities. This should be sufficient to
indicate our intentions to the big-wigs. Please let me know if you want to
discuss further.
For my talk, you can call it "Alternative Ways to Keep Plants in Home
Aquaria." I cc'd Charlene so she can comment on the activity list.
Otherwise, let it rip.
--Neil
PS. After a few wording changes, I assume Erik will post on the AGA page
and an APD contributor like Karen will post it on APD.(everyone reads
Karen's posts)

At 05:34 PM 04/04/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>At 07:43 AM 4/4/2000 -0400, Neil Frank wrote:
>>Do we have enough of the details settled to prepare and distribute the
>>initial announcement?
>
>What I have gleaned so far is:
>
>Name: Aquatic Plant Summit (suggested by Claus to go forward with Amano's
idea)
>Dates: Nov. 3-5, 2000
>Place: Tennessee Aquarium, Chatanooga, TN
>
>Speakers Including:
>Karen Randall - Meeting the Nutritional Needs of Aquarium Plants 
>Neil Frank - 
>Charlene Nash - Aquarium Plants in the Public Aquarium setting
>David Lass - Lighting Options for the Planted Aquarium
>Paul Kromholz - 
>
>Other activities:
>
>Planning Committee Meeting for Summit 2001
>Silent Auction of Rare Plants  ---> unusual plants
>River Boat Cruise
>Private Tour of the Tennessee Aquarium lead by Charlene Nash, Aquatic
>Horticulturist
>
>Pre-registration will be required
>For more information, contact:
>Contact:  Charlene Nash ecn@tennis.org, (423)785-4071
>or visit the AGA web site at: www.aquatic-gardeners.org
>
>If you can add anything, please let me know.  Neil and Paul, maybe you guys
>can add in titles for your talks.  Otherwise, I'll write this up and get it
>to Mary for TAG and Dave for PAM.
>
>Karen
>
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