Re: MCM - Digest V1 #364

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

Neil wrote:

> I was in Ft collins on business this week and had the opportunity to visit
> with George and Karla Booth. Very nice folks. They told me they plan to
> come to the conference ; after I reminded them about the attendance limit,
> they immediately made their plane reservations and sent in the
> registration.  I think it is time for an update on the head count
> (including the AGA Mgt) and a the friendly reminder thru the internet.
> (Charlene - please count me in -- I have not yet sent in my
registration!!)

Cool!  I've wanted to meet them in person for a long time!

Me too, Charlene, though I think those of us who are speaking can be
expected to be in attendance ;-)
> :-)

> When we talked about weekend details, he reminded me about the panel
> discussion. I asked George if he would like to be on the panel and he said
> YES.

Sounds great.

> By the way, I did not realize how nice his tanks were until I got home and
> compared them to mine!

Yours are pretty darned nice too.<g>  Don't tell me you're thinking of
becoming a Dupla convert!

Charlene wrote:

> This is a professor I think, and he doesn't want anything in return but
> tapes but will double check all this.

I just can't figure out why he'd want to donate $1000 based on whether we
allowed him to tape or not.  It doesn't seem to make sense.

>He wasn't going to do any taping
> himself. Our AV people will tape as we talk thro the mike for us so that
> isn't the issue (we will have the tapes to dupe and distribute as we
want),
> the issue really is whether we want to let people buy tapes which could be
a
> good fundraiser (if speakers allow their talks to be distributed) but I
> agree that we want people to come to the conference and not count on
> buying cheap tapes instead of attending the conference. We have time to
> discuss and  make up our minds whether selling conference tapes is what we
want to do or
> keep the conference more personal so it encourages people to attend. That
is
> the main issue.

I think that as long as the speakers are all agreeable (or even just tape
the ones who ARE agreeable) that it makes sense to tape the seminars for
that AGA archives.  What about offering the tapes just to those who attend
the conference?  That would be an added incentive to come.  Yes, I'm sure
some tapes would end up being used at some local club meetings (although
they should contain the standard warning that the tapes can be used legally
for private viewing only).  But that might not be a bad thing either... It
might encourage someone else to come the next time.

We could offer the tapes (either of each talk individually or for the whole
conference) at the  conference.  People could pay for them right there, in
person, and the tapes could be mailed out to them after they were duped.  To
me, this would be an attractive offer, and should be fairly easy to
administrate.

I do _not_ think that the tapes should be sold to the general public or even
non-attending AGA members any time within the near future.  Maybe it would
be appropriate a couple of years after a conference actually took place.

Karen