Stinkin' thinkin' - was Re: [TheForge] ABANA is NOT dead...

[Saint Phlip]

On 2/25/07, Dave Mudge <dave at magichammer.net> wrote:
> Bob, we need a facility for 1,000 if were lucky. We can not afford a
> 60,000 people facility.
> Bruce, you hit the nail on the head. 99 percent of the attendees want
> a motel or dorm room and easy food. I could see the "right" fairground
> if local zoning lets us do our fire thing and if eats and sheets are
> near-by.
> dave m

Luck doesn't have a damned thing to do with it.

Dave, this is right where some stinkin' thinkin' is starting.

Who says 99% of the attendees need motel rooms? Yes, they need a place
to sleep, and a place to eat, but you're talking a bunch of
blacksmiths, for heaven's sakes. Last conference, they "needed" a
dance band, too- but did they really? Or was this just something that
someone got in their head would make the conference more attractive?

I really, really, think you need to rethink what you're trying to
accomplish here. We aren't trying to set up a three day tour of Disney
World with anvils- we're trying to have a conference for blacksmiths.

Instead of ASS U MEin' things, why not work out a poll, and ASK the
people involved? Maybe, special letters going out to last year's
attendees, as well as to the folks who aren't attending any more?
Maybe even asking someone for a donation of something that a voter can
get a chance on a drawing for, since apparently everyone's so bored
with what's happening, you hafta bribe them to pay attention.

What you've been doing flat ain't working. It's time to change.

-- 
Saint Phlip

Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Priorities:

It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.