Re: [AGA-sc] AGA 2007

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

A location and some local volunteer support is probably critical if AGA 
produces a convention. Our limited experience with local hosts (one home run, 
one home rule double, and one base on errors) shows how terribly difficult it 
is to enforce a formal bid process as we originally envisioned it much less 
ensure adequate production management without substantial transfusion of time 
and organizing skills and efforts from, for a recent example, Erik. The local 
host model was a great idea that I think we would have been fools not to 
attempt. It has worked really well one out of three times and the success 
depended largely on the just the right local folks being involved. Despite 
gaining more experience each time, the results haven't gotten better each time, 
which suggest to me that what we learn isn't as critical for the local host 
model as is who is involved. I'm either singing to the choir or whining like a 
two-year old.

Now, supposing that local hosting is no longer a model we will be using (which 
is not to say that we won't need local volunteers), if AGA is going to produce 
a convention, we should probably do as much prepatory work as we originally 
expected of local hosts in terms of lining up adequate staff, assignments, etc. 
before we select AGA as the host. Do we have adequate crew to produce a 
convention? I don't know but I believe this is a separate question for the more 
general one, should AGA by whatever means produce a convention every so often 
because the responsibility to do so is incumbent on AGA.

sh

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