On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:39:53 -0500 Heather Brodeur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The point of quarterly meetings is to have a big name speaker that would > draw people from around the state. Yes and it would, in a perfect world, also mean the speakers would show up as announced, etc. However, as the current situation demonstrates we do not inhabit such a world. The question then is, what do you do? Postponing the meeting to till a time when the "big" speaker can show up really disrupts the flow of all the chapter meetings, those who had planned on going to the meeting with the "big" name, and other organizations which may have also planned on the "big" speaker being at a specific place and time. My suggestion is that if another "big" name speaker cannot be obtained for the announced time and date, then a substitute speaker from the ranks be used. While I wholeheartedly agree the best situation is to have a "big" name speaker and I do not mean to belittle the concept, we need to have a fallback plan to enable the meeting to be held when and where it has been announced to be and with content that will interest many. Especially when other organizations have bought into the program. Of course nothing should be announced until all the loose ends are tied up and it is reasonable to assume the "big" name speaker has the time and date blocked off and will be there absent some unforeseen event. Ed Lawson _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org
