Re: GWAPA Proposal rough draft2 (fwd)

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

--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> Assuming my hand recovers fully, I'd be happy to do
> drawings again for this
> convention, but that's another thing that didn't get
> handled very well this
> year.  I was asked to do one for each main speaker. (not
> the focus group
> people) We also decided to do the composite picture for
> the focus group
> people's badges.
> 
> Thinking that we could make a little money on them too,
> the way we have done
> at NEC, I made an extra set of prints, and about 25 sets
> of note cards.
> 
> I gave Larry the bag, and told him that the extra prints
> were for the
> auction, and that he could use what cards he wanted as
> "thank you's" to
> conference organizers, and the rest could either be sold
> or run thrugh the
> auction.  I don't know where the bag went, and I don't
> think Larry did
> either.  Very quickly people were helping themselves to
> both prints and
> cards.  I know a couple of the less attractive prints
> made it to the
> auction, but I'm sure that these weren't used to best
> advantage.
> 
> I wouldn't have minded if the committee had decided to
> give ALL the stuff
> away to worthy folks.  But it should have been a
> decision, not just another
> conference freebee to whoever got there first.  I'm not
> even sure the
> speakers (other than Christel, as hers never left our
> room) got the drawings
> that were done specifically for them. 

I think they went to speakers and workshop leaders.  At one
point some of us checked that that was where they were
going and things looked okay. But don't make me say in
court.

What I liked about NEC was that they knew the night before
what all the items were and listed them. That seemed like a
really well organized auction. In Dallas, we never knew
what all we had. There will never be a list of all the
items auctioned in Dallas.

> It was fairly
> expensive, and very
> time consuming to produce them all, and I was happy to
> both do the work and
> donate them to help the AGA, but as it was, I don't think
> the AGA or the DFW
> club benefitted much.  (in contrast, between prints in
> the auction, and note
> cards sold, NEC made a couple of hundred dollars)
> 
> So again, you can mention to them that if my hand gets
> better, I'm happy to
> do the drawings, but I don't want to do all that work and
> then have it not
> benefit the organization at all.

I suggest, let's let them plan on covering it themselves,
at least until the Jan 4 final proposal arrives. We can
always make things easier for them, it's toughing things up
that's hard.

> It's not a big deal to
> make sure they're
> dealt with appropriately, but it can't be left to chance
> as it was this
> year.

Imo, we needed a backup for chair, a real detail person. I
thought so during the last couple of months and more so the
days of the convention. Someone to be chair while the chair
is busy being the chair somewhere else.  For many of the
committee heads (in several cases the head was the
committee) thier work was only sporadic or during a small
period and they didn't have a wide enough focus catch stuff
falling through cracks -- stuff that wasn't theirs but that
anyone could have picked up and kept organized. They needed
another general pick up all the loose ends before they
popped loose. 

Well, now you know why I never put an "h" in "imo."

sh

=====
S. Hieber

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