Re: [GSAS-board] Speakers for 2010

[Susan Welenofsky <welenofsky@comcast.net>]

What about doing the home show at the end of the year again?

Susan


On Jan 4, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Erik Olson wrote:

> I made the same comment back when the talks were being organized.  I've made 
> my peace with it.
> 
> It's only 2.5 talks (three if you count Wayne's as a cichlid talk).  It 
> happens.  Four years ago we ran 2-3 talks back-to-back that all turned out to 
> be collecting livebearers in Mexico.  We didn't have any cichlid talks in 
> 2009, but we did have two plant talks.
> 
> I do still think it's a mistake to run the home show AND jeff on the same 
> night, unless he's talking for 10 minutes.  It's OK to have a meeting in 
> which the presentations run for less than an hour and a half!
> 
>  - Erik
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Paul M. Wallace wrote:
> 
>> Dear Shango,
>>  
>> I agree that we are quite heavy on the Africans but the good news is that we 
>> have recovered 1/2 airfare through the ACA for Wayne.  Jennifer was a
>> “last moment” invite and she has the one talk ready.  Ad has given a number 
>> of talks over the years but wants to do sand dwellers here.
>>  
>> I could use some help making the posting more inclusive to or members.  Any 
>> ideas?
>>  
>> -Paul    
>>  
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>> From: gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com [mailto:gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com] 
>> On Behalf Of Shango Los
>> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 11:07 AM
>> To: GSAS board members and alumni
>> Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] Speakers for 2010
>>  
>> Wow, an entire year of almost all Cichld talks.  Did this happen 
>> accidentally or has the Board decided that this is a good way for the Club 
>> to go?
>>  I know we have a fair amount of Cichlid fans in the club but this seems out 
>> of proportion.  I, for one, have little interest in Cichlids and
>> think that having 4 of 6 speakers talking about Cichlids is too much.  I 
>> would expect members would find themselves burned out on the topic, a
>> good amount of overlap and some exclusion of other just as valuable and 
>> interesting topics.
>>  
>> If the Board has determined that the Club is best served by this focus, I 
>> will back off.  I just wanted to make sure this choice was being made
>> intentionally.
>>  
>>  
>> On Jan 4, 2010, at 10:44 AM, Paul M. Wallace wrote:
>> Dear Board,
>>  
>> I would like to post a schedule to the members list but in light of the flub 
>> for Jennifer I would like to post to the board first.  Please suggest
>> corrections or correct any guesses (like the auction on the 17th).
>>  
>> “Happy New Year!
>>  
>> I am proud to announce that we are booked for most of 2010.  The good news 
>> is that a number of speakers will be giving multiple views and
>> perspectives of one particular geography.  This includes film travel logs 
>> with video, information of importation, a study of
>> speciation/hybridization in a divers closed system and sand dwellers.  It 
>> just so happens that this magical place is the African Rift lakes and
>> Lake Tanganyika in particular.  For the cichlidphiles, this is a great 
>> lineup and we have asked the speakers to focus on aspects that are
>> interesting to all members.  For example Jennifer will show video of 
>> cooperative hunting behavior between mastacembelid eels and predatory
>> cichlids!
>>  
>>  
>> January 12th, 2010:  Our new friends in the Vancouver BC club are sending 
>> Jennifer Reynolds to talk about her time in Lake Tanganyika and her
>> contribution to the Vancouver Aquarium’s new Lake Tanganyika exhibit.
>>  
>> February 9th, 2010: The Plant Auction!  Follow signs are we may move across 
>> the street to a bigger space for the auctions.
>>  
>> March 9th, 2010: A show in two parts with the Homeshow and our own Jeff 
>> talking about importing cichlids
>>  
>> April 17th, 2010: The General Auction on a Saturday! 
>>  
>> May 11th, 2009: Ad Konings on Tanganyika sand dwellers.
>>  
>> June 8th, 2009: Wayne Leibel on speciation/hybridization.
>>  
>>  
>> September, October and November are filling up fast!  Tom is inviting a 
>> rainbow fish speaker and we have soon for at least one club member to give
>> a full or 1/2 talk.
>>  
>> -Paul
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