Re: Convention 2004

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Excellent idea, shadowing.  What you see at the convention
from a chair, doesn't cover much of what it *takes* to get
to that point -- the doc actually says more and
shadowing/training would be good.

If you don't push the schedule on the front end, you end up
pushing things on the back end, at that's when the world
tends to be the least accomodating.  Also, summer is a
horrible time to be negotiating with a hotel in most
places.

I wouldn't expect the deal that Larry got this year every
year, but if he was negotating the deal any time in the
last few months, I think things would hvae been very diff.

Scott H.
--- David VillaSunscape <davidlass@villasunscape.com>
wrote:
> From my experience with the African Violet Society -- who
> are real pros at
> doing annual conventions -- the IDEAL thing is is next
> year's convention
> people can be at this year's convention, and tag along
> with their
> counterpart. Again, IDEAL.
> As one of my professors at the business school used to
> say
> "The perfect is the enemy of the good"
> David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
> To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Convention 2004
> 
> 
> > Ideally, I think we should be sending out requests for
> > proposals right about now inthe calendar year for the
> > following year's convention.
> >
> > Proposals would be reviewed just before or, more
> likely,
> > after the convention, say before year end.  Early
> details
> > are set and we're ready for a formal anouncement by
> > Feb/March.  We almost slid into this kind of schedule
> for
> > AGA2K3 because of the early work that Larry and Erik
> did.
> > We're a bit behind it for 2K4, at least in terms of a
> > formal process of sending out the prop & guidelines
> doc.
> >
> > I'm just talking about Ideally here.  Just offering up
> the
> > the thoughts.  Assuming this and subsequent conventions
> > earn profits, I think this is a good time frame to
> cover
> > the procurement process and the planning and execution
> by
> > the host.
> >
> > sh
> >
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