I talked with Rick last night on the phone and have a few
things to share:
-- Rick has spoken with the GWAPA AGA2K4 committe and is
planning to prepare and send us a response to the Board's
inquiry within a week and to keep us posted more often.
-- They have contacted Amano and are trying to determine
his desired flying arrangements -- what airport, etc.
-- Jan is probably doing a workshop as well as a
presentation.
-- They apparently haven't discussed Tomoko with Amano yet.
I urged him to do so right away.
-- Rick is going to call Ray re TFP's offer for
plants-in-exchange-for-Amano and explain that the logistics
are too difficult.
-- It looks like Florida Aquatic Nurseries is going to come
through wtih plants again.
-- They *have* spoken with Dorothy more than once about her
being a speaker.
-- Re promotion, I urged a strong and repeated presence on
a variety of web lists/forums. Larry has good insight on
this stuff and I don't really know diddly doo, so I urged
Rick to contact Larry re how to approach promos. I expect
Rick to call Larry soon. Thanks for the help, Larry; it'll
keep your mind from focusing too much on ACA-Dallas-2005
;-) .
-- GWAPA has an auction system (using a PC) that they use
for their club auctions but it will be interesting to hear
about it and how it might scale to AGA auctions especially
the silent auction. It think it's a
create-record-at-time-of-bid system with payment made when
the bidder leaves well, technically *just before* the
bidder leaves ;-) )
-- There are 75 roomnights so far, not counting the speaker
comps. Goal on roomnights is 150+ but it doesn't look bad
at this point. the tougher nut to crack will be the banqs.
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On a slightly related but diff matter: Imo, we should be
actively seeking bids for AGA2K5 right about *now*.
Possibly, we could even announce the host by Nov and AG2K4
although that would really be pushing it.
But the more lead time there is for hotel canvassing and
negotiations and speaker selection, the better. Also, one
last point, I think we'll get better proposals in a
competitive environment (I think my saying that means I
have to turn in my IWW pin ;-) If you don't know what that
means, then you're either too young or you never listened
to folk music).
regards all,
sh
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