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[AGA-mcm] Re: AGA convention 2K5
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Thomas Barr wrote:
Make that _19 people so far_ and we are on the hunt for hotel and
convention locations and pricing(4 of us). We are trying to find a place
near the BART stations so folks can go anywhere in the Bay without a car,
Monterey is nice but that might end up a field trip(Mark is now a curator
there so we can get small groups in there anytime with a little notice).
I think that is a wise choice. Monterey seems like it'd be cool at first
glance, but in reality you'll drive out all the local bay area folks
during the auction and lectures who don't want to drive to Monterey and
aren't interested in the field trip aspect.
There are many LFS's around here(namely Marin, even if you don't like
aquatics, we got Muir woods and the coast line) and more weed field trips.
Most of the SFBAAPS member ship is right here also.
Just my gut feeling, I beleive more people would be interested in
collecting than zoo/aquarium stuff. There is also no requirement that
there be an elaborate field trip as part of the convention!
We have a person to do the tourist non fish/plant tour of SF to take care
of any spouse's, kids etc that want to sight see.
It'll be a humdinger.
What's your timetable Tom? We're getting kinda close (really we've
already gone over by several months) this year's deadline, and unless
things are sketched out in the next month, it might be better to shoot for
2006 than 2005 if you want to have any promotion. (If the budget allows
for a small convention, then you might be OK though. Definitely would not
have worked for DC.)
- Erik
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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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