Re: MCM - Digest V1 #402

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

> From: "Mary McCaw" <marymccaw@mediaone.net>

> I thought TAG would have the first coverage of the contest.  

Actually, TAG *doesn't* have first coverage of the event.  Not by a long
shot.  The first coverage of the event, as James mentioned, will be on the
APD and the website.  TAG will be 2-3 months behind this.

Second point: What is "coverage?"  I have already announced the
availability of the winners in my article for TAG which I just submitted.
There's some coverage right there. 

> It is, after all, an AGA sponsored event.  The above suggestion seems
> to me to compromise what I thought we had already agreed to.
..
> No way!!!  Erik, after all the hard work I put into TAG, I think you we me
> the courtesy of running these offers by me before you talk to Dave about
> them.

Mary, that's exactly what I'm doing right now.  I have not agreed
to anything.  I've shared in ALMOST REAL TIME the discussions with the MC
(almost to a fault). If you've read the replies, I've said in EVERY ONE
"No go without buy-in from Mary and James."  What more can I do?

I do not wish to be petty here, but I must... as for discussion around
peoples' backs, please "before you accuse me, take a look at yourself."  
I was reminded that YOU made the decision to offer Glaeser's club
discount memberships without going to ANYONE else on the management
committee... not the treasurer, not me.  I would have liked to hear about
this from the source, just as you would here.

> I am tired of Dave's abrasive tactics.  I've said it before, and I'll
> say it again:  Dave needs us a lot more than we need him.

In my opinion, this point has little relevance.  YOU do not have to deal
directly with Dave.  I am attempting to work around Dave's quirks, just as
I am attempting to work around YOUR quirks as TAG editor.

This is a hobby.  And the showcase has a LOT of material, more
material than we could ever cover in a year of TAG.  I am trying to come
up with a way in which WE can use the advantage of a two-page spread in
PAM to promote our contest and have some pictures that would otherwise not
see the page, printed!  I have tried very hard to come up with a scheme
that does NOT compromise anything cool we will do in TAG 2 months later,
but gives Dave something interesting for his readers.

And it's really frustrating to me that every idea I seem to come up with
now is either shot down in petty bickering over trivialities, or only is
agreed to over much pain. This is the third such case now.  I cannot take
much more of this.  I, and we, need SUPPORT, not conflict.

  - Erik