Re: [AISdiscuss] a few topics for the Board Meeting

["William Plotner" <gardens@molalla.net>]

Here here,

I wuld also like to see a return of the write in names as this is really a
symposium of ALL irises in a popularity poll of ALL members and should not
eliminate anyone's personal preference even if that preference is for an
Historical Iris.

There is something more for you to mull over.

Will


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robt R Pries" <rpries@sbcglobal.net>
To: <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] a few topics for the Board Meeting


> I would like to correct a couple of statements. It is
> not a popular idea to change the symposium. The board
> meeting in the fall did not authorize or promote such
> a change. Indeed, the report I gave of the survey of
> members attending the convention noted that a large
> number of people wrote in on the questionnaire that
> although they liked the bulletin they would like to
> see less, not more, business in it and have more
> articles. Placing the symposium question into the
> bulletin would go against what the vast majority of
> members have been saying. It is believed by many that
> one of the reasons why we loose so many new members is
> that the bulletin is not offering enough in the way of
> articles and that too much that is in it is AIS
> business and that turns off new members. There are
> several vocal older members who do not wish to loose
> the archive that the bulletin represents. The thought
> has been to possibly remove much of this material to a
> supplement that would still be archival but would
> allow the bulletin to be more appealing especially to
> new members. Adding yet another degree of business to
> the pages of the journals seems like defeating the
> strategy for gaining membership while barely saving
> any money. Considering the cost of the pages in the
> bulletin it may actually be more expensive. I pity the
> person recording the symposium ballets if we do this
> because I know how badly people write numbers.
>
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