Re: let me go on record again...

[Neil Frank <nfrank@mindspring.com>]

I share erik's concerns.... especially on the content of the overall
weekend... and note the obvious --that for most folks the convention
expenses greatly exceed $125.  Other than knowing it would be in Houston
and figuring it would be early Nov, I had not heard many details about the
convention until today (or have not been paying attention). However, I did
know it would be Houston and probably in early Nov. 
BTW,  I had been asked  and gave Charlene suggestions for heavy weight
speakers a long time ago, but did not get any feedback.

For the future, the SC could probably help with simple publicity ,but not
sure what to say about the meat. The latter is typically the responsibility
of the host group and convention chair. The SC could designate a publicity
chair or ask one SC person to act as liason with Charlene/convention chair
and starting in the spring provide short monthly or bimonthly announcements
via <aga-announce@thekrib.com> & <aquatic-plants@actwin.com>. This can
include information as it becomes available (city, dates, hotels, hotel
cost, speakers, activities).... some information is known earlier than
others. I have no qualms about SC sending out annoucements if this
information is not provided directly by the convention committee.
Neil
PS. I have business conflicts for that week, but would probably not go anyway.


 At 10:09 PM 7/20/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>...to say that I think this year's convention is probably going to bomb.  
>
>Charlene has set the price at $125, and only sent me the brochure for
>registration, the first actual information to be released to the public
>and to myself, TODAY, once she completely finalized all the speakers.  
>The speaker list is Claus Christensen, Jeff Senske, me, Chuck Gadd, and
>Don Kingore (Kent Marine).  Nothing special Sunday.  Friday tours
>(starting at 3 PM) are of Aquarium Design Group (senskes), Village
>Tropical (good fish store), and Aquarium Environments (?).  While it will
>be cool to see Claus again, if I were considering spending the hefty fee
>for this, I would be asking myself if I'd rather fork over half the cash
>to attend the NEC and see similar calibre stuff in better quantity.
>
>I have mentioned this before to folks, including Charlene, but I know the 
>response has been "well, she's in charge, so she gets some leeway."  
>Meanwhile, I have been hearing other folks (via Kathy) saying they won't 
>go because it's now too short a notice.
>
>I don't think there's anything we can do for this year, but it is my hope
>that if next year's event (if there is one) is held by the NEC folks, that
>they take more of the matter into their own hands, and manage to (a)
>publicise the event more than 4 months in advance, (b) get feedback on
>speaker lineup, and (c) talk to others while organizing it.
>
>Thank you.
>
>  - Erik
>
>-- 
>Erik Olson
>erik at thekrib dot com
>
>
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