Re: [AGA-mcm] GWAPA feedback requested

[Ghazanfar Ghori <ghorig@gmail.com>]

I wouldn't really call it 'negative feelings', it was more along the lines of
misunderstandings. Some of which were due to the fact that we have
had no experience hosting a convention, and had other expectations.
However, the fact is that, as the AGA continues having local clubs host
the conventions (which is great BTW), most of the clubs will not have
the experience running something like this, and this is where a set
of detailed guidlines on running aspects of the convention 
(e.g. auction) would really come in handy. Detailed information of how
to run all aspects of the convention will ensure that the hosting club
has a clear understanding of the amount of work involved.
Vendor relationships should probably be handled by an 
AGA Convention Comittee of sorts. Long terms relationships are important
and it would probably be best served.

Having a Convention Comitee, made up of folks who've run past conventions,
as an advisory board for the hosting club, and having the hosting club
members be part of a mailing list to discuss and hammer out all the details
would help a lot. We did do this in a limited way this year, and based on
that experience, we should probably expand on that.

I don't want the AGA to take this the wrong way - everything can be
improved, both on the AGA side and the hosting club side. We just
need to make sure that we learn and improve.

I don't have time today to get into too many details, but give me a little
time and I'll send a list of what I think would help the AGA, and hosting
clubs, run things smoother in the long run.




On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:37:34 -0800 (PST), Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> Ghazanfar, when we talked on Friday, you said something about preparing a
> document detailing all the issues that the GWAPA members experienced in
> planning (and now executing) the convention.  I am hoping that you are
> still planning to post this document... Based on several offhand comments
> during the convention, I understand there are some negative feelings about
> the AGA from GWAPA as a whole, but at the moment I'm not quite sure how
> they came about and exactly what they are.  It will be very important to
> insure this *doesn't* happen next year, and part of that process is
> learning what and why it happened this year.
> 
> I don't want to start a big AGA-defensive dialog on this, and so the AGA
> board/worker folks (including myself) are directed to only ask clarifying
> questions in response to GWAPA's feedback.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>   - Erik
> 
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