[TheForge] ABANA conference program problems

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Judging from our CBA conferences, the demonstrators and available 
  facilities keep changing till the last second..the presentation 
is a juggling act.
All the players are either volunteers or minimally compensated.
Printing accurate schedules is difficult..but posting the info in 
conspicuous locations would help.
No, I don't volunteer to do it next time....PF

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> I realize these conferences are organized largely by the local section,
> but REALLY it's about time these organizational problems were fixed.  It
> really should be up to ABANA to evaluate and log these problems, and to
> come up with better ways of doing things.
> 
>  I attended the 1998 conference, and missed SO MUCH because the
> available information was so poorly presented that I found it difficult
> to get to the demos most interesting to me.  
> 
> Since then I've attended as many of the local conferences and demos as
> I've been able to, and find they provide much more bang for the buck
> (counting ALL the bucks - travel, lodging, conference fees, food).
> 
>  I have not been tempted to go to another ABANA conference.  I'll go to
> the New Paltz one (2008?) because it's so close by, but maybe my
> contribution (time permitting) will be to present the program in a
> manner to allow people to actually attend the demos they most want to
> see, instead of spending megahours figuring out what will be where, then
> finding the schedule was changed anyway.
> 
> Bruce
> NJ
> 
> 
>>>>mpaietta at iglide.net 7/13/2006 1:20:31 AM >>>
> 
> <snip>
> I really enjoyed the classes, but it was not organized well. They had
> four different lists that seamed hidden on the website. The demo list
> with
> times, locations, and demonstrator did not say what they were
> demonstrating,
> that was on another list. The list changed and was not updated very
> well. My
> friend wanted to go on the UW metal lab tour the people who were
> volunteering their time were not informed of the different tours. There
> had
> been an issue long before with the local chapter and the person in
> charge of
> the conference.  <snip>
> 
> Regards
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
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