I don';t know Larry at all, but am amenable to whatever you folks who do know him want. I concur with Karen that Mike Hellweg would be a great addition to the management of AGA. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:01 PM Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] [Fwd: AGA/sfbaaps cooperation] > I agree with Erik that repeatedly printing a static list or directory is a > waste of our limited paper resources, AND uninteresting to the majority of > our members. I think a pointer to the web site for more information on > local clubs is a better use of space. > > But I think a reasonable compromise would be to offer to include the > directory at least twice per calendar year, and let Cheryl and me decide on > how much space will be used to do that. That way, if we've only got 2 or 3 > clubs, we can shoe horn them in somewhere without a dedicated half page. If > we've got enough clubs that we actually NEED a half page, the added income > should already be supporting a larger page count. > > Oh, and on the subject of Larry on the BOD, I don;t know him very well, but > have heard very little about him that wasn't positive. Would he take on > Kathy's "job" of managing advertisers? If so, I would have no reservations > about adding him to the BOD. If not, I still have no objections to Larry > per se, but have a bit of concern that we've never asked Mike Hellweg. He's > a really nice guy, very reasoned and reasonable, and I think would like to > be more involved than he has been in his "bit part" as historian. Just a > thought that I wanted to run past you all. > > Karen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com> > To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 5:39 PM > Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] [Fwd: AGA/sfbaaps cooperation] > > > > Water down, no. Add to, maybe? However: the number of > > pages added, and the attendant cost, would be covered by > > the number of new members -- but only on a 10 @ $16 each > > basis and only if we had enough for 4 pages, i.e., 8 sets > > of premies. > > > > Sort of that gamble, I think the issues narrows down to > > wether to do a directoy. > > > > sh > > --- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote: > > > > > Which is $1,120 per year. > > > > > > I think it is extremely important that we NOT burden TAG > > > by further reducing > > > content pages without a reasonable return. As I see it, > > > TAG is the biggest > > > reason that MOST of our members are members. I'd be very > > > reluctant to water > > > it down further. We reduced our page number to go to > > > color, and I agreed > > > that was a reasonable trade-off. But now it's time to > > > build TAG back up > > > again. I have great, quality material... and no space to > > > run it. > > > > > > Karen > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Cheryl Rogers" <cheryl@wilstream.com> > > > To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" > > > <aga-sc@thekrib.com> > > > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 10:57 AM > > > Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] [Fwd: AGA/sfbaaps cooperation] > > > > > > > > > > An extra sheet (four more magazines pages) would cost > > > an additional $280 > > > > per issue. > > > > > > > > Cheryl > > > > > > > > S. Hieber wrote: > > > > > So, one question is, will the additional membership > > > revenue > > > > > from the project bring in enough money to cover 4 or > > > 5 > > > > > additional pages? Cheryl, do you know what additonal > > > pages > > > > > might cost. > > > > > > > > > > sh > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Cheryl Rogers, Membership > > > > Aquatic Gardeners Association > > > > http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > AGA-sc mailing list > > > > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > > > > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > AGA-sc mailing list > > > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > > > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc > > > > > > > > > ===== > > Want to get dirty but stay clean? > > > > Diana Walstad, author of _Ecology of the Planted Aquarium_ will discuss > soil supplemented aquarium substrates at the 2004 AGA Convention. > > > > Convention Details/Registration at aquatic-gardeners.org & gwapa.org > > _______________________________________________ > > AGA-sc mailing list > > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc > > > > > _______________________________________________ > AGA-sc mailing list > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc > _______________________________________________ AGA-sc mailing list AGA-sc@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc