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

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

--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> . . .  
> The current process would have ended up with no
> convention in 2006.


But have you been practicing half an hour a day in
believing the current process will work?

It wouldn't take a push to convince me to walk away from
the current model, archetype, framework, whatever you want
to call it. (Heck, I'd maybe walk away from SFBAAPS too if
I wasn't concerned about the angst and bad blood.) All it
would take is a light tap on the shoulder. There. I think I
just felt it, just now.

If we change the current model, then a
call-for-participation document could be very diff from the
Guides & Recs doc we have now.

Technically, wasn't SFBAAPS's deadline November something
or other? Technically, aren't they out of the running
already for 2006?

How long will we wait for whatever we still are missing? I
say let's tell them December 15 is the absolute last, this
time we really really mean it, no fingers crossed, no
the-dog-ate-my-homework, last and final drop dead date. If
they can't make that after having, oh about a year for
planning, then they can't walk and chew gum at the same
time. (I know how to walk *and* chew gum although I've been
practicing believing I can do both for half an hour a day.)


Seriously, let's give them a list of specifics that we want
by December 15: formal proposal as described in the Reqs
doc (including proposed financial participation), unsigned
contract and catering agreement from the hotel, staffing
for convention from now through completion, marketing plan
. . . anything else we specifically want and are missing?

Of course, if we actually walk away from them if they miss
the deadline (and the smart money is on "they will"), no
one from SF will be attending in 2006 . . . But we have to
start planning the 2006 convention; can't risk losing
another year.

Btw, while we're talking about possible locations for 2006
conventions, Karen, did NEC get a new hotel contract? Did
they resign with Marriot?



sh
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