Re: [AGA-sc] AGA Calender

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

I think it would be fun to have a major plant collecting trip in the 
summer, some place cool with our favorite speakers, ie Kristel, Ole, 
Claus, etc...get four or 5 collecting speakers, meet in Florida.  Then 
bring all the plants back and ID them etc, bag them and auction them.

If you get enough collecting folks and do it two days prior to the 
talks...it could be several small groups going to different locations.

Okay, crazy thought, but just since we thinking....

I think in terms of speakers/conferences, we really need a talk on OK this 
is ALL THE TYPES OF THIS plant type of thing, maybe too boring.  But how 
many species of ludwidgia are there? Anubius?  Etc....I know too much for 
one talk, but I like that type of thing at ACA and miss it here.  Kristel 
did some of that I think or wait was it Claus.   I am confusing DVD's with 
reality here to, since I never saw Kristel live.

Forgive my english, up all night with vomitting kid and near incoherent.

K

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, S. Hieber wrote:

> Don't give up. Shoppig is a good thing. I want to spend some of the money 
> too. It keeps accumulating month after month and someday some folks are gonna 
> say we're fat and then insist we do something they think is brilliant but 
> will in the long term be, well, stupid.

I'd like to spend in a way that we can maintain a continued level of assets of 
around $40k. So we could start with $15g but want to spend only about $5 g per 
year from then forward (unless membership picks up, of course).


Some proposals given, followed, or merely thought about:

Contest calendars

Translation of Kasselman

Package something with some vendors? Coupons? Discounts??

Bigger TAG

Longer TAG

Premium clubships

More AGA shirts

Subdizing research (but who'se gonna check on the spending or the research?)

Spend an extra $20 g on the next convention and have really high production 
values, crepes for breakfast, mandarin oranges for snacks, etc.

. . .








----- Original Message ----
From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>
To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 3:23:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] AGA Calender


Hobby hole is ain't anybody doing it for aquascaping -- not even Amano. 
Fish Calenders. Bah.

You know me, always trying to figure out how to spend AGA's money 
bacause I have none of my own. :-)

Cheryl

S. Hieber wrote:
> Well, if we were giving them away, wouldn't we do that for new members 
> as an enticement to join rather than existing members? If it's a way to 
> increase what we do for existing members, why spend on calendars when 
> they're getting calendars for free this time of year. Is there a hobby 
> hole we can fill instead?
> 
> sh
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>
> To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 12:47:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] AGA Calender
> 
> Yah, but I was thinking we give one to each member, and sell to
> non-members for $20. We'd almost break even if we sold all of them.
> 
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