Re: [AGA-mcm] It's that time again -- Or - It's friggin' mid-October alr

Personally, I'm all for hearing stuff I haven't heard before. Some of this stuff is starting to sound like a catchy pop tune to me. However, they want to see Amano and by the time the convention rolls around, it will be four years since he was here. And I understand that he would love to come. We could decide what's best for them to see instead of more Amano, but as you say, we aren't busting with alternatives. Maybe we should even bring Kasselman back.

Maybe we could make two lists:

Likely biggest draws

Likely most interesting

And see how what the overlap is.

Re tasks,

These are some of the tasks that come to mind – feel free to redact with passion:

Money Gathering:

Sales and Sign-in Tables Staffing

Treasury – cash management-accounting

Ad/sponsorship selling

Money Lending

Oops, that’s a different list.

Registration

Head Counting and name-taking

ID Tag production

Field Trip Organizer

This is mostly a procurement (location and transport) task

Auction Actions:

Auction organizer

Auction tech support

Auctioneering

Auction bag/ticket runners

Auction cashiers (these are really money gathering requires presence at auction and auction system raining)

Howdy-do Tasks:

Hotel Liaison – Waiter, there’s a fly in our soup and marimba band in our ears.

Speaker tender – care and feeding

Vendor tender – care and feeding

Gimmee Getme Tasks:

Hotel services procurement

Speaker procurement – invitations, follow-up, travel timing-coordination, etc.

Speaker gift procurement

T-shirt procurement

Solicitation – spreading the word by email, ads, or shouting to solicit registrants

ID Tag procurement

Eat Drink procurement

AV equipment – local equipment supplies

Mass entertainment – group actions:

Goody Bag Stuffing

Plant bagging and labeling

The Inkspots:

Brochure productions

Pamphlet/leaflet production

Zen and the art of Web page creation and maintenance

Reddy Kilowatt:

AV production coordination – setting up mics, lights, projectors, cords

Not to be confused with AV product production

TAG follow-up ariticle

Duct Taper

Ombudsmanship and real-time fire stamping

----- Original Message ----
From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@dustyuniverse.com>
To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 12:13:43 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] It's that time again -- Or - It's friggin' mid-October already? Yikes!

I volunteer to keep track of registration. I will not do the sales table this year, although I am willing to recruit and train someone else to do it.

The DFWAPC is petering out lately. The last few meetings have been sort of lame and poorly attended, mostly due to lack of leadership IMO. A huge project of this type would either regenerate the club or break it completely.

And finally, I believe I am among friends here so I will speak honestly. I am against having Amano speak. It's like we can't think of anyone else. I don't have any better ideas other than what has been talked about on this list. Maybe it's time to get some new blood in on the discussion.