Re: comments on hotels and 2nd proposal from GWAPA

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

Hi,

You guys should read this, it is REALLY good, I thought well done.  Very 
responsive to our comments, which I could easily see making people testy, 
they didn't seem offended which was good.  It seems like communication is 
open, and that everyone is listening and discovering the best path 
together.  Very encouraging.  I am excited about the convention they are 
trying to put together and will really look forward to going.  I hope they 
can get AMANO, their advertising ideas are great.  Perhaps we can be 
flexible on the date for Amano's schedule.

On the speakers...definitely need an hour for Paludarium and with 
Jan...horrible to have Jan come from Europe and only talk once.  Trying to 
figure out how to squeeze everything in.

The bay talk, how about suggestion as a workshop!  Then paludarium could 
be first, with Jan next and then AMANO.  OR  they could do the AMANO tank 
setup in the AM before lunch, (so it can run into lunch if needed) and 
have AMANO do a main talk at the Banquet!  It was nice having amano's talk 
before the tank setup in TN because then you saw how principles were 
applied.  AMANO also joked a lot during the tank setup, included the 
audience and over all, it was THE BEST thing I have ever seen at a fish 
convention and that is going to 1-4 yearly.  As for the AMANO tank for 
auction...it is up to whoever buys it to have it shipped/etc.

Now on tanks like ALL GLASS, I think that it would be better to NOT have 
the tank in person, and I know all glass will ship to the nearest store in 
the town that person lives in.  (ie a store they already ship too).  I 
mentioned this to Larry last year but he wanted to do a raffle on the 
tank.  In general, I like the raffle/auction tank, and then to the local 
distributor, then out of town folks would have a chance to get it.

Jan B.  If coming from Europe, again it is a shame to have him talk only 
once, I would like to see him do a workshop.  When you have an expert 
coming out it is nice to have them talk twice.  I know I felt bad in TN 
when we had Winn who was an awesome speaker and really got drowned out 
because AMANO was there.  People made such a BIG DEAL about AMANO that I 
would be VERY CONCERNED with this happening with Jan too, having two big 
names there.   ON the other hand, I like their program.  Just not sure how 
to fit it all in.

TIME-I have no idea how they can fit this all in.  Maybe have Jan talk at 
the Banquet, or have Amano do a main talk there...etc.  

Overall again, great proposals.  Hopefully they can get some hotel costs 
down, again, hard in DC.  Wonder if Oct is any better.

Anyways, just my 2 cents worth, please comment.

Kathy




On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Erik Olson wrote:

> Scott, I spaced, sorry.  Rather than forward to the board, I forwarded it
> to myself at work to read today.  FYI, that document was only 73k so it
> could have been sent to the board.
> 
> I put it up at http://test.thekrib.com/aga2k4-qa.doc
> 
>   - Erik
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, S. Hieber wrote:
> 
> > It's in the respsonses to the Board's comments that I sent.
> > Uh, I think I sent them to Erik to avoid the byte limit
> > thing I tripped on last time.
> > 
> > The planning is flexible at this point. They're trying to
> > put together enough items to show the Board what they are
> > thinking about but the final schedule will have to be
> > molded when we can fix the date and speakers.
> > 
> > sh
> > --- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> > > . . . For some reason, I didn't see
> > > the proposed
> > > schedule, so I don't know how things are planned now.
> > 
> > 
> > =====
> > S. Hieber
> > 
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