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[AGA-sc] NEC update
1. Claus suggested Holger Windelov as a speaker, so Karen's on that as
soon as both are free to communicate (Holger currently out of the country;
Karen currently in week-before-tax-hubby-CPA-mondo-work-mode). Claus
thinks Windelov would find it touching to be asked!
2. We're still working on Dorothy... always interesting to be reporting
about "working" on someone who's on this list. :) Hey, once you say yes,
we've got the line-up done...
3. Claus did two very good talks with at least 50% new material since
Houston/2002. They were especially good considering he had a hard drive
crash before leaving on the plane and had to regenerate his talks from
scratch or make some of the sequencing up on the spot. We'll see how well
it works in editing. Hmm...between this one, last year's Christel update,
and one more good plant import at an NEC, we'll have enough material for a
"rarities" or "all-stars" DVD, should we get permission from the requisite
folks.
4. Ray Lucas. He is asking US to ask him to come to the convention this
year. Has that weekend free, and can visit San Francisco Bay Brand HQ
(one of his bosses). He also figures he could get All Glass and Python to
sponsor the Iron Aquascaper competition. I mentioned we are without a
vendor chair. Now that speaker stuff is progressing, I suppose it's time
to start moving on whatever ersatz vendor work we should be doing. What
do you guys think about asking Ray? I know it can get a little dicey...
Ray's style is not the best fit with the anti-pet-corporation plant
hippies. But he's a big AGA supporter, and if done right, this could be a
good draw.
5. AGA meeting.
- We had one suggestion to publish the member list so that guy could
find other AGAers in Chicago. Perhaps we add "include my address in
member list" in the survey form so we could actually do this in future
years.
- I saw a few nods of understanding/encouragement from folks across the
room when I mentioned we're doing 2007+ on our own. I think it was Alecia
"Gold Pants" Benedict and/or Jay, but hard to say.
6. Table. Lots of PAM and TAG samples given away. David would like to
distribute them to his pet store connections if we're really using them
just as free promo now. No DVDs sold, but none of us had time to run the
table (which was in the hallway with no place to sit behind anyway).
Bailin did a really cool nano aquascape that lots of folks stopped to
look at.
6. Bay area folks. Heard from Lonnie ?, a Bay Area transplant and SVAS
(Silicon Valley Aquarium Society) bigwig. He says there are lots who will
be driving up for it. Actually Kathy and I talked to a handful of folks
who were planning on coming. Nice, as we were expecting the usual "who'd
want to fly out THERE" attitudes (which there were a few).
7. We're home and plumb tuckered-out. Scott and I shot 23 hours of tape.
I think that's a record for a day and a half.
- Erik
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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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