* Sounds like everyone's go for Dave Wilson. Question about who is the best contact, us, him or Tom. He's going to talk to Tom and get his thoughts. Tom apparently contacted him originally.
I've known Dave for years, and we still keep in touch periodically. I can contact him if we want to keep Tom out of the loop. I have this bad feeling that Tom + speaker arrangements = messy.
* He pushed back on Professor Tan. That's actually saying something, in my opinion, since Jim hasn't pushed back on much with me. He forwarded me an article (see URL at bottom). Noted that Mosses is a big deal with SFBAAPS, and the large asian demographic of their local club. I noted that we're kinda on the fence about that one, thinking, yeah, we should stay on budget, but maybe just go for it and spend the money as a "treat" for the attendees.
Yeah, but I was thinking spending the money on another "expensive" speaker so that we had a sure-bet good talk, not roll the dice on two unknown quantities speaker-wise.
Jim's going to ask SFBAAPS members if any of them have contacts in Singapore who have seen him. Karen, do *we* have contacts for him here? Maybe it's time to just ask and find out if he talks, speaks English, etc.
Again, I am probably the person who has the closest contacts with most of these folks because of TAG. ALL my contact with Professor Tan has been through Loh, which makes me suspect that his English is not strong.
* They have a local member, Eric Do, who's a kinda invert expert and also a great photographer. Jim is going to ask him if he's interested in talking.
* Jim wonders if Friday night would be a good slot for Jeff Senske photo workshop, since it's in the vendor room. I mentioned the concerns with having a tank pre-set up and not cloudy. Jim's going to ask the guys.* Jim's OK with Ricky, so I'm going to ask him. I'll ask Jeff too.
Sounds good.
* He posted the financial arrangement, and asked for feedback & got none (big surprise).
Hey, they could have groused. In this instance, no news is probably good news. (and someone MUST have muzzled Dave)
* There's a group meeting this weekend, so he'll ask questions of folks then. I also planted the notion that we'll need speaker chaperones for at least the guest speakers & that it may be a good opportunity for folks who don't want to commit big-time to the planning, but still want to help.
Thanks, I HOPE I'll be able to coordinate that much as time gets closer. That shouldn't be too big a job... just one that needs attention it hasn't always gotten in the past.
Karen
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