Re: [AGA-sc] Phone Conversation with Jim

[Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>]

Erik Olson wrote:
> I called Jim at SFBAAPS this morning to try and figure out a couple of 
> alarming points brought up by Scott:

> real big in the hobby right now.  First, "Mosses".
> Everyone seems to be into mosses these days, all the exotic 
> varieties...even Java Moss is not really Java Moss now.  So
> we were thinking Professor Tan from Singapore would be a good speaker.  
> We have a contact for him.  Only thing I was not
> sure of is whether he speaks English."

Man, it would sure be nice to get Loh Kwek Leong over here too. He can 
play interpreter, and he has done SO MUCH for the hobby. Expensive to 
fly them both over, but worth it IMO. Can't be worse than Amano, 'cause 
they will proably agree to share a room! :-) And they probably won't 
hijack my sales table right in the middle of another speaker's talk.


> I suggested that maybe the AGA board could take over this job and insure 
> we got the speakers taken care of...
> and he kind of went "Maybe I'll call Tom this week and see if he will..."

> Jim is going to check in with Leon, who lives in Monterey and volunteers 
> there, and will check on bus rates as due diligence
> on the field trip thing.


Seems like Jim is doing most of the work. Maybe he should get the 50% cut.

> OTHER COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
>
>   * Jeff Kropp - Hospitality
>   * Registration - three volunteers - no chair, were thinking of asking 
> Cheryl (whew)

dingdingding. Oh, I am all OVER this. I am so in, I'm inside out.

>   * PR - Skids/ Carleton Low
>   * Vendor - Phil Edwards

Dunno. Phil has gone bye-bye.

>   * Sponsors and Donation - no chair

Bad. Need to start soon.

> Seems to me the biggest hole here is nobody wanting to deal with 
> vendors. So we should find out where Phil is on that.
>
> FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT:  I mentioned that we're thinking of doing the 
> DFWAPC plan, and that the club should probably understand and agree 
> before we do anything further, as it will tick off folks otherwise.  He 
> mentioned that while he was 100% with us on this, there were those "Why 
> should we do this for the AGA" people.  I said, that's fine, and here's 
> some good counter-arguments (negotiatin  g hotel, getting speakers, 
> doing registration, lots of A/V... I didn't say "we're doing most of the 
> !@*&^$^ management too").

Maybe you could point out how much !@*&^$^ money DFWAPC made. We still 
can't figure out how to spend it, and it's been three years.

Cheryl
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