BOD Meeting 6/11/05 Chat 9 AM

[reedman]

Meeting called for Saturday June 11th at 9 AM. We'll meet in the chat room again. If there is a different channel setup for us I will post it here.

This is the place to get things on the agenda. Let's do a little preplanning to make this a good use of time. I'm posting a listing of what needs to be talked about soon (maybe not all in this meeting). Please, everyone add, suggest, approve, just get some form of input on this so that we all know we are on the same page. We seem to be drifting apart a bit (not deliberately) and we need to pull back together.

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1. Admin stuff
   • Articles of incorporation, etc – status from Alice
2. Picnic
   • Any lingering items?
3. Tank tours
   • North end tour
   • South end tour
   • Do we limit # of people?
   • Maps
   • Who leads the caravan (not me…I’ve been accused of fast driving on the last tour)
   • Small write up on each tank to wet the taste buds (pics??)
4. Vendor Event
   • Half day, evening, all day
   • Speakers
   • Activities
   • Invites
   • Venue
   • Date
   • Raffle
5. Making money
   • Sponsors
     1. Local and national
     2. Monetary, discounts, and event sponsors
     3. What can we offer them?
     4. Dive shops
   • Events to make money
     1. Raffle
     2. Frag meeting/raffle
     3. Rummage sale
     4. DIY project packs with a small markup (Ca reactor, Skimmer, PO4 reactor)
     5. Reinvigorate the PSAS store
     6. Tank maintenance
     7. Membership drive (cater to SW as well as Reef)
     8. Membership fee increase
     9. Sell Calfo Books
6. Year plan
   • Frag swap (September)
     1. Location
     2. Date
     3. How to advertise
     4. Should we have a dipping station there with interceptor, flap worm exit, lugols, as education and prevention?
   • Speakers
     1. Scott Michael
     2. Terry B
     3. John Warner
     4. Professor at UW Vancouver who specializes in coral reefs
     5. Dana Riddle -
        [email protected]
        Coral farming
        lighting
        coral coloration
     6. Julian Sprung
        algae control
     7. Bob Fenner
        wet web media
        Lighting
     8. Scott Michael
        fish
     9. Walt Smith
        coral import and farming
     10. Albert Thiel
         leather corals
     11. Craig Bingman
         Salinity and Temperature
         Chemisty type topics
         Synthetic Saltwater
     12. Rob Toonen
         Salinity and Temperature
         Sponges
         Coral Feeding
         Christmas tree worms & other creatures like that
         Deep Sand Beds (he did this for us before)
     13. Martin Moe
         fish breeding
         water motion
         Multi Environment Aquarium System
     14. Charles Delbeek
     15. John Tullock
         water quality
         pH and alkalinity in saltwater aquariums
     16. Greg Scheimer
         writes for advanced aquarist
         primarily fish & water quality topics
         Fish in the Reef Aquarium: Myths and Misinformation
     17. Joyce Wilkerson
         clownfish expert
     18. Ron Shimek
     19. Steven Pro
     20. Frank Marini
     21. Ilham (Elmo) on clownfish

 

[Skimmy]

hey guys,
i just wanted to let you guys (and gals) know that unfortunately i will be out of town camping at the designated chat time, i did ask chuck how we could record the chat but he hasnt gotten back to me yet, so one of you might want to ask him.
sorry im ditching you guys, but rest assured, my wife more that chewed my but for camping without her, i've been punished

 

[reedman]

No worries Mark. I'll see if I can't coordinate recording the chat.

We need to discuss promoting our sponsors too. We have 2 new sponsor (Ocean Reef Aquatics and Coral Fanatics) and existing ones that we need to give a reason to keep sponsoring us.

 

[reedman]

Also should discuss sponsors selling/delivering stuff at the picnic. Is this OK with us? Will it detract from the raffle or bring more people out? Just something to discuss.

 

[Wolfesbane]

I think we need to keep the focus on PSAS at this meeting. If people are selling stuff, there's less money for people to spend on raffle tickets. The vendor meeting is where they can showcase their stuff. UNLESS they want to sponsor a speaker, then they can promote themselves all they want.

~ Steve