Re: [AGA-sc] SFBAAPS bid -- half an hour a day

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, S. Hieber wrote:

> On the one hand I think SF and GWAPA are more the norm and
> DFWAPC was a special case.

I think at this point in time this is the case.  In order for a club to 
chair a convention without interference, it needs leadership and it needs 
someone with experience in running a convention.

> Otoh, what about the reasons we had for want a local club
> to host and not do it ourselves year after year? Uh, this
> predates my AGA existence, but I was around a bit of this.

The reason for the local club thing was that's how "all the other fish 
club conventions are run".  We wanted to get away from Charlene running it 
into the ground, and we wanted more MEMBERS involved.

I think what you've come to realize (me too) is that the clubs are 
generally too new and too few to be doing this kind of work on a regular 
basis.

> Do we have the personel to do this every or every other
> year? Also, wasn't local-hosting supposed to be part of AGA
> reaching out and getting others in involved? If so, is that
> working, or not?

What I am proposing is that the local club normally no longer be in CHARGE 
of the convention.  Maybe they can be the "host", maybe they will help 
work, maybe they will share some of the profit.  But the convention would 
be run by the AGA.

Here's my thought on personel: We need someone strong enough to chair a 
convention ALREADY, just to interface with the local clubs.

Most of the stuff becomes much easier once someone with experience is 
behind the helm.  Yes, we'll have to bring in some new volunteers.  But 
that's a good thing.  I think we've got volunteers wanting to help.

> Maybe we need to shop around to clubs with convention
> experience. Or maybe we need to start believing more in the
> current process.

The current process would have ended up with no convention in 2006.

  - Erik

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