Re: [AGA-sc] Luis

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

It sounds to me like Ricky wants to do this without it feeling _totally" 
like charity to Luis.  If he's there as a speaker too, he can feel like he's 
contributing as well.

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Luis


> Well, that's the part I wasn't clear about. Why was Ricky paying for 
> himself if what he meant to do was pay for Luis? Anyway, if the question 
> is merely, can there be a second speaker without free reg, banq or 
> roomnights, that's a no brainer.
>
> If the question is add another speaker to a short peresentation and give 
> another set of speaker comps, then that's not two for for one , , ,
>
> Well, I'm not clear which it is you're asking about.
>
> sh
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>
> To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 2:10:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Luis
>
>
> Important to note that Ricky is offering to pay for himself. Basically,
> we are getting another two for the price of one deal. We're not talking
> about a set of comps.
>
> Cheryl
>
> S. Hieber wrote:
>>
>> What are the speaker perks? two roomnights, convention reg, Banq, that's 
>> it.  So a joint presentation couldonly mean that AGA pay's Luis's hotel 
>> room, buys him a banq and let's him in the convention for free. Travel 
>> wouldn't be an AGA except for a keynote or special speaker.
>>
>> Luis was a bit rough as a presenter, iirc. If he just plays Carol Merril 
>> to Ricky's Monty Hall, I suppose that could work as a presentation. But 
>> basically, this would just be a set of comps.
>>
>> And, of course, it raises the question, of course, of who gets what and 
>> who doesn't. Lots of deserving folks out there and who's to decide one 
>> person's lot is worse than another's.
>>
>> Otoh, Luis helped a lot on the Houston affair, so bit of a stretch but 
>> arguably that could be a general basis for the comps. However, we've told 
>> the SFBAAPS that the workers on the current convention don't get comps.
>>
>>
>> sh
>>
>>  ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>
>> To: AGA Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 1:37:35 PM
>> Subject: [AGA-sc] Luis
>>
>>
>> . . .
>> Having heard this story, naturally I called Ricky next. He and Ben want
>> to make sure Luis gets to AGA. Ben is going to sell plants to raise
>> money for airfare. Ricky is willing to give up his free registration and
>> whatever other perks go with being a speaker. He will pay for himself
>> when he gets back from Japan. He will even work it out with Luis so that
>> their talk is a joint presentation, with Ricky showing slides and Luis
>> doing the actual aquascaping or something like that.
>>
>> I wanted to bounce this idea off y'all first. What do you think?
>>
>> Cheryl
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