I'm willing to take on finding speakers and speaker care-and-feeding. I could
probably handle their travel arrangements too, but let's see if other people
step up.
Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: S. Hieber
To: AGA Advisory Committee
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] It's that time again -- Or - It's friggin' mid-October
already? Yikes!
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
sh
----- 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.
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