Hi Folks, Just wanted to let everyone know what's been going on in the steering committee lately. Bob's bowed out as the steering committee chair, so I have volunteered to take it on in a "rent-to-own" capacity for a few months. Bob will remain in name during this time. If everything works out, I will take on the title officially. (As I mentioned on the SC, it is unfortunate that this happened at the same time as my scanner toys arrived, because I was in the middle of starting the TAG archive project when this happened). What I'd like to do in this position is just keep everyone on track of the currently-open issues on both the MC and SC. To this end, I'm going to be trying to track all open issues in a file which I'll periodically post here, and possibly mutate into something on the private web site. To summarize this large list, the current "hot" items are * Resolution of the SC/MC relationship. We need to decide once and for all if the MC is an advisory or voting board. It was formed initially as an advisory board, but somewhere along the line people on the MC just started voting on things. So LET'S DISCUSS, and then the SC (!) can formally vote on this. Presumably this will also be incorporated into... * The Incorporation/bylaws! Mary, can you ask Bob what we need to do? (see the links in the full-blown list below for all discussion to date) * Convention details needed for the website. Charlene, how is this progressing? * Neil also would like to know if we're planning on advertising the convention in magazines. OK, that's it. Here's the full-blown list (remember that if you click on the links to archived messages, you'll need to enter username/password, which gets appended to every message here ad nauseum): - Erik Task Culprit Phase CONFERENCE Need details for website Charlene Do it Advertise on website Erik Pending Charlene Advertise elsewhere ? ? Future conferences and regional meetings/speakers tabled with local clubs (discussion around Feb 13th) MANAGEMENT Does MC vote on issues? Entire SC Discussion "Up until the TAG vote, the SC has made all the "major" decisions regarding the AGA. The MC has been more advisory in capacity, as well as, in theory, running various committees. I'm not saying that another model might not be better, just that this is how it has been done up until now. But I think we ALL agree that AGA could stand with some new ways of doing business. I don't have any problem with changing things, but I think we should make some decisions on how we think things _should_ be done, and get it written down in some fashion so that we don't have to reinvent the wheel every time a decision, particularly a contentious one, needs to be made." - Karen INCORPORATION Draft bylaws Bob McCaw ? need to find out ? Approve Bylaws SC or MC pending draft? http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00730.html http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00727.html http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00720.html http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00714.html (the main one from Bob McCaw) http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00698.html http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00695.html http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00691.html http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00675.html (Bob Cashin's original bylaws) http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00634.html http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00624.html (Bob McCaw's first message) SALES Expand T-shirt and pin sales? tabled "I have only been selling T-shirts and pins when I go to events or speaking engagements. I have sold a couple by mail but I would gladly turn them over if someone would like to take over. I have enjoyed selling them but as Karen says you have to pack them along." - Dorothy Archived TAG articles on CD-ROM tabled Continue printing back issues? http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00682.html Unusual Plant Sales tabled TAG Get soft copies of documents from Universal Printing erik waiting on John Cogwell Scan old TAGs for archive erik proceeding http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00697.html Memberships expiring jack resolved (not an issue) "I have been continuing Dorothy's tradition of sending out renewal notices." - Jack Membership database upgrade jack tabled? (filemaker? internet-based?) Membership Roster in TAG tabled? Advertising in other publications mary resolved? http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00632.html WEBSITE what to do with Olga's survey? tabled http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00873.html add survey to membership database? tabled VOLUNTEERS Volunteer coordinator tabled http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00668.html Tim Belanger tabled http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm/msg00847.html The Steering Committee: Neil Frank Karen Randall Erik Olson Dorothy Reimer David Lass Treasurer Bob Cashin The Management Committee: Jack O'Leary Membership Mary McCaw TAG Editor Paul Krombholz Merrill Cohen Charlene Nash Convention Chair Mike Hellweg Historian Diana Walstad Sales -- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-mcm" in the body of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, add "subscribe aga-mcm-digest" in the same message. 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