next year's convention (fwd)

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Karen Randall wrote:

> > What I'm looking for with THIS issue is some input: does it make sense to
> > partner with one of these "meta-conventions"?  Do we lose anything by not
> > going on our own?  Do we gain anything?
> 
> Well, The Findig thing sounds like it might have potential.  Were you
> talking about the NY/Penn Council thing? 

Yeah, NY/Penn.

> I guess what I'm saying is that I can certainly see the advantages a joint
> convention could have in terms of economy of scale, but if it ends up that
> we get a "token" plant speaker at a predominantly fish convention, I don't
> see any advantage over going back to our old thing of just giving grants to
> local organizations who want to feature a plant speaker.

Totally agree.  To me that sort of thing isn't really an AGA convention, 
it's an XXX convention with a plant speaker and an AGA booth.  I think the 
Findig deal is different:

The way Kevin described it was that it was like 3 simultaneous conventions
sharing only hotel resources; each of the groups has their own speaker
TRACK, i.e. their own speakers.  They ran simultaneous cichlid,
Rainbowfish and livebearer tracks on Saturday.

I think they even had separate banquets.  So it was kind of like separate 
conventions.  I would certainly imagine that the auctions would also be 
separate.

Certainly for Sacramento, without 2 full days of travelling, Kathy and I
could actually help out a little earlier.  And perhaps some of the
remaining shards of SFBAAPS could be called upon to help too? 

Anyway, I could ask Kevin for more details.

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
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