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RE: General Meeting Notes
Hi all, if we change the writing contest to "fish stories" from "fish
tales" it will blow the idea that i had during the meeting. Not really a
big thing but a consideration. What do others think?
Oct 2 looks ok with me for the field trip, but i do need to check with
administration and my personal boss before we cast in stone.
dave
-----Original Message-----
From: *1st Bde Surgeon CPT Cartwright [mailto:1bdsurgeon@lewis.army.mil]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 9:32 AM
To: gsas-board@thekrib.com
Subject: RE: General Meeting Notes
Great job taking those notes, Erik!!!! (you were very thorough!).
"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing." Socrates
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-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Olson [SMTP:erik@thekrib.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 9:25 AM
To: gsas-board@gsas.org
Subject: General Meeting Notes
I'm planning on having these in the newsletter as well.
On the topic of "open house", if we could get the location of the
board
meeting AFTER next (ie. end of october), then I could get it in the
next
newsletter. Already assuming next one's at Heather's.
Likewise, if we could agree on the Saturday for the Liberty High
thing
(October 2?) then I could print that as well.
- Erik
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GSAS General Meeting - 14 September 1999
Attendance was 11 total. Let's see if I can remember
everyone... Dave, Scott, Victoria, Myself, Kathy, Steve Ward, Bob
Holmes, Sandy Gibson, Paul Skofield, a new guy named Sasquatch, and
a
new guy named Mark.
Sasquatch has been in and out of societies since he was a kid. He
brought pictures of his big fish (eel, Arawana, etc), and a can of
worms (literally), which Sandy opened up near the end of the
meeting.
Mark has recently moved to Oak Harbor from San Diego. Down there,
he
was involved in their aquarium society.
Scott brought a Farlowella cat to give away or auction. Dave
brought
Fish of the Month, longfin white clouds.
Looks like the Liberty High field trip will happen sometime after
the
newsletter gets out, because we want enough people to know about it.
We talked about the "Fish Stories" or "Fish Tales" (I actually
prefer
"Fish Stories" because of the exaggeration overtones, while I think
"Fish Tales" is generic and too cutesy, but that's just me). Some
folks had ideas on topics to write, and immediately picked up on the
idea that it could be fictional.
On Bowl Shows: Steve finds them fun, and suggests "open bowl show"
where you just bring in something interesting. Someone brought up
size problems if you have big fish. Paul brought up timing
problems,
since he comes directly from work.
"Home Show/Open House"
Dave is very emphatic about non-judged home shows; he dislikes not
being able to talk to the "judges" when they're visiting, and the
hardcore nature of judging the fish themselves. "It's just not my
thing" he said. The purpose is primarily to get to see people's
fish.
Sandy would like to help out with a home show. She also suggested
having a myriad of prizes "so that everyone who enters will win
something".
Paul noted that in "old times" the board meeting was held at
different
people's homes so we could see their fish (including non board
members). I noted that we had discussed the idea of combining the
board meeting with "open fishroom night" once a month at someone's
house.
I brought up the national aquascaping contest and how we can tie in
with our own home show... by having several people photograph the
tanks in our show, people who otherwise don't take pictures can
still
enter... a la "team Seattle".
The possibility of having a "big show" was brought up by Mark and
Sandy. Both Dave and I noted that this sort of thing boils down to
needing a champion, someone who is interested enough that they will
take on the monumental task of running it. Right now, the club has
"champions" of the other areas, such as the newsletter, or the
speaker
program, but nobody wishing to actually stick with and run a big
show.
Also, it was noted that any photos from these activities make great
newsletter and website fodder.
"General Meeting"
Sandy wanted a "show and tell" meeting where people bring in video
clips and pictures of their fish.
Sandy was disappointed at the Geophagus-only talk, and wished there
were more types of fish in it. (On the other hand, she did buy some
more geophagines afterward).
Sandy was also disappointed that the mini-auction occurred before
the
talk that month, because she didn't get as much money for her fish
as
she might have had it been after the interest had been stirred up
(c.f. the rainbowfish talk the month before, where eggs went for
ridiculous prices).
Paul likes the specialized talks; they're a chance to get into some
fish he's never really known much about.
Several folks want more on fish diseases. Steve would like to put
together a video of diseases under a microscope (hey Steve, you
could
probably sell such a thing to the general public!). Talk of this
mutated into a meeting where people bring in their sick fish to be
examined, we have scopes, etc. "Sick fish bowl show".
Another topic, possibly brought up by Steve, was just a "medication
review". The idea here is that people don't really know which
medications should be used to treat which disease. This idea was
well-received.
Sasquatch recommended Bill Robertson of the Seattle Aquarium for a
talk, just because he's very knowledgable and was the only one that
could read his Arrowana autopsy report. Steve concurred that Bill
would be a neat speaker.
There was also talk about water condition and quality. Someone
suggested we have a "water only bowl show" where the techno-nerds
bring in all their test kits that the rest of us don't normally own.
Steve would like to see some split-topic meetings, along the lines
of
our "workshops" we've held over the past couple years. This has
involved getting three or four members to each give a 15-20 minute
mini-presentation about a series of topics loosely related (for
example, fish breeding). This topic was also well-received.
Mark would like to see a wholesaler here (something we manage to do
every few years), and possibly a behind-the-scenes tour. We had Art
from Puget Sound Fisheries a few years back; maybe Tom from African
Northwest could be persuaded?
Sandy asked a lot about PR and getting more members in the club.
She
mentioned seeing the ad in the times, and noted the many other
newspapers that carry announcements. I mentioned the "champion"
thing
again, that this is all dependent on having someone who can do the
job.
We also talked about the Seattle Home Show and the Flower and Garden
Show. I think it's safe to say that we have no idea what we're
doing
here. Who was in charge of getting us a booth? Did we get it?
We've
got a few volunteers to help man the booth if we do it.
And finally, Mark, in a passing reference to differences in clubs,
inspired Scott to do some research into the meanings of those latin
fish names for possible newsletter articles.
Oh yeah, and Dave had already brought in "Tropical Fish for the
Complete Idiot".
It's a pretty nice book!
--
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com