Re: [AGA-sc] ideas from the phone

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Cheryl Rogers wrote:
> Erik Olson wrote:

>> Field Trip:
>>
>>    A: Seachem-only in the morning.  Rent a bus.  Someone does a talk at
>> Seachem.

> I like this one best. But that means that only the folks who pay for the
> field trip get a speaker presentation on Friday night?

If we do IA Friday night, I think that will more than make up for "no 
speaker".  I think IA = two short talks (which is what we had in 2006). 
But we could always squeeze in a guerilla 'midnight madness' workshop (or 
set up the sandbox) after the contest.


>> Speaker line-up: [IA Friday, 2 Sat AM, 2 Sat PM, 1 Banquet]

> This sort of looks spare to me. Are y'all sure we don't have room for
> one more speaker?  Let Mike do it if Jeff doesn't want to.

Counting Seachem and banquet, that would be 5 talks and 2 demos.

2006 had 7 talks and one demo.  Several of the talks were very short.  It 
felt perfect.

2004 had 7 talks and one demo, and crammed them in by running three 
simultaneous rooms as workshops.  I wish I had the program archived for 
that (Cheryl, do you have the 2004 program?).  I found 2004 a little bit 
hectic.

I won't talk about 2003. :)

2002 was a straight 6 talks (including banquet).
2001 was 5 talks plus demo.


So I dunno... you've certainly got a point that on paper it might look 
like one less of something.  I don't think it would be good to cram in 
another talk on Saturday, unless we hear back from Prof. Tan of the 
culture guy that they're doing 30-minute talks.  So it'd have to be Friday 
night, butted-up against IA (if we do it).


>  > Committes:  I think that someone needs to formalize who all the
> committee
>> chairs are.
>
> Ooooh! Ooooh! http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/convention_committee.html
>
> Whazzamatter with that? You think you can do better?

OK OK.  But are the other two guys working with Bailin doing Vendor stuff, 
or are they all working cross purposes?  I didn't get a clear read that 
they were on the same page.

> I really really really think we need to move this discussion back to the
> con-heads list.

I agree, except that the discussions that involve making decisions of 
sensitive political nature, i.e., Jeff Senske's ego or Bailin's ability to 
execute on things, need to be dealt with HERE, and FIRST.

Certainly if the IA had been presented as "Jeff is very enthusiastic to 
run the IA from start to finish -- all we need to do is supply plants and 
A/V.  I think we should go for this, on Friday"... then it would have been 
done and done, and all public on the list.  Unfortunately, now we have to 
make a decision and potentially smooth out SOMEONE's feathers, be it Jeff 
or Ben.

   - Erik

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