With all the Koi talk on the list and so many folks playing with Koi fry, that may be a good speaker idea. We have some good local folks it seems too. The koi show was my first experience with amazing koi and I must say it peaked my interest too. On 9/16/08 10:33 AM, "Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com> wrote: > Seems there were a lot of the membership at the koi show this month and a lot > of pond talk in the email. I would suggest we have a koi club member come talk > maybe > Clay Hess > 787 Fuselage Systems Integration Manager and Team Leader > 425-931-4322 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> > To: GSAS board members and alumni <gsas-board@thekrib.com> > Sent: Tue Sep 16 10:30:32 2008 > Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] Possible speakers > > I don't think there has been one this year... though I've missed my share > of meetings myself lately. > > - Erik > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Hess, Clay A wrote: > >> Erik, >> >> Has there been a recent talk on koi or ponds? I haven't been aound much >> lately so am not sure. >> >> Clay >> >> >> Clay Hess >> 787 Fuselage Systems Integration Manager and Team Leader >> 425-931-4322 >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> >> To: GSAS board members and alumni <gsas-board@thekrib.com> >> Sent: Tue Sep 16 10:05:26 2008 >> Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] Possible speakers >> >> By the way, Ghazanfar has a blog: >> >> http://kryptokoryne.blogspot.com/ >> >> - Erik >> >> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Erik Olson wrote: >> >>> OK, so Luis highly recommended Ghazanfar Ghori to talk on Cryptocorynes -- >>> he's become a major crypt geek, growing unusual species, growing them >>> emersed, etc. Do you think there would be enough interest in GSAS to have >>> a guy flown out from the other Washington to talk about one genus of >>> plants for an hour? What do you guys think? Should we ask the general >>> membership? >>> >>> Another speaker that might be of interest is Eric Do, who spoke at the AGA >>> convention in 2006 on freshwater shrimp. I think we actually put up part >>> of his video at the start of one of our meetings shortly afterwards. >>> Anyway, same question: Do you think there would be enough interest in GSAS >>> to have a guy flown out from California to talk on shrimps (rapidly >>> becoming the Koi of the planted tank hobby) for an hour? If not, maybe we >>> just keep the video in reserve for a meeting where we don't have >>> speakers. >>> >>> Paul, you should come to Atlanta in November. :) >>> >>> - Erik >>> >>> >> >> -- Shango Los Fourthfold Visions, LLC www.ShangoLos.com www.OutdoorLovemap.com _______________________________________________ GSAS-board mailing list GSAS-board@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-board