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Adam Blundell 
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 Topic: Salt Lake Reef Conference???
Posted: June 12 2004 at 12:31pm |
Hi club.
Well I've had this idea for a while, and Jake has as well. The other day we were discussing an idea of holding our own aquarium mini-conference here in Salt Lake. Neither of us feel that our club is capable of hosting MACNA or IMAC or something like that. But seeing the things I've seen recently, and knowing how much I learned at the past few conferences, I would really like to see our whole club attend these types of things.
So our (Jake and I) idea is to have a one conference. Like a Saturday in February where we bring in around 4 speakers. One lecture on corals, one on fish, one on inverts, and one one tank setups. Then after each speaker there is a long open forum/question answer type of thing.
So it would be a one day long meeting basically. We would have to charge around $20 per person non club members, and $10 per person for club members. Before we take this to a presidency meeting and hash it out, I thought we should check and see if there is any interest, or if people would rather see one speaker per month, like we do now.
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 12:35pm |
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I really like the idea, for a day of good speakers $10 is a bargain.
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 1:40pm |
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Sounds kewl to me. Would this be in the normal meeting house, or a bigger area to allow for more people?
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 1:51pm |
I would guess in a hotel. I never thought otherwise but since we put speakers in a hotel most conferences are in hotels.
But just trying to get a general feel for now. Would 20 people come, or 120 people.
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 3:28pm |
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I would definitely attend.
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 4:13pm |
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In. And if I am not around, I'll still pitch in the $
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 4:19pm |
My guess is that we would get 120+. We had about that many for Julian Sprung in the summer. February would be even better attended. I love the idea. 
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 4:26pm |
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i would be there sounds cool.
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 4:38pm |
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Wow... a Saturday... I might not have to work on a Saturday... I'm in!!!
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 6:41pm |
I would definately be there. And...Like Mark I would put money on over 100 people in attendance.
Would this be something the club would try to advertise even outside our area for people to come to Salt Lake and attened similarly to MACNA or IMAC?
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 8:25pm |
I love the idea! Kind of a Rocky Mountain Symposium. We could invite the boise and denver clubs too...
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: June 13 2004 at 8:23am |
Will and Jon,
That is exactly what I was thinking. Jon even guessed the name I had thought of for the event. I don't think we'd get people from far away, but I was thinking we would invite Rocky Mountain Reefers, BoiseReefs and Las Vegas Aquarium Society. I don't know if many or any of them would come but we'd invite them. I'm really dissapointed with the turnouts at IMAC and MACNA, so I doubt they would come here, but worth a try.
It's hard for people to see the value in conferences. I can see lots of people coming for a half day or for one presentation, but for a 4 speaker all day thing, I wonder how many local SLC people would really be interested in this idea.
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Posted: June 13 2004 at 9:24am |
I think there would be more interested parties in a regional conference over a national one. I'm pretty sure I could talk my wife into driving to Boise or Vegas and spending the weekend (if only one day were consumed by meetings). Maybe if the other local clubs found this interesting we could rotate the meeting yearly... or screw 'em and have it in SLC every year  . Either way, I would attend.
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Posted: June 13 2004 at 9:48am |
Jon,
There use to be that exact thing. It was called the Western Aquarium Conference (WAC) and it rotated clubs yearly. It eventually faltered (after like 5 conferences or so). I'm not really sure why it failed because the last conference was like in Seattle around 1996 and I can't remember what all happened.
But even if no one else showed up, as long our club had a large showing it would be okay.
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Posted: June 13 2004 at 10:47am |
Count me in too!
BTW, Adam, I used to run an archery club in Malad, Idaho. With "special" events, we would get people from as far south as PHX, as far north as, well, Idaho (Caldwell area), as far west as CA, and from back east as far as AR. We did not get many from down south though!
I think you'd get 120+ with just a little advertising!
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Posted: June 13 2004 at 8:01pm |
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i would support this also
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Posted: June 13 2004 at 8:20pm |
I think it would be a great idea. First the reef tour - then the RMS (Rocky Mountain Symposium). Go WMAS!
I think it would be great to get some speakers in here to do something like this. I for one dont think that I will ever be able to 1) afford to go to IMAC or MACNA and 2) Ever be able to talk my wife into going to IMAC or MACNA. So the next best thing would be something local! I love the idea.
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Posted: June 14 2004 at 2:02pm |
A day of speakers and Q/A discussions would be awesome! Even the non-member price of $20 is a great bargain, IMO. 
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Posted: June 14 2004 at 5:45pm |
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I think this is a great idea! There is a lot of local expert talent that could also enhance the venue!
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Posted: June 14 2004 at 10:19pm |
 jfinch wrote:
I'm pretty sure I could talk my wife into driving to Boise or Vegas and spending the weekend (if only one day were consumed by meetings). |
Really? You think so?
I just asked my wife just now if she wanted to go to a conference with me in Boise..... she thought I was nuts. Boise??? She just asked me "what would I do there?". I feel that way about most local conferences, which is why we are discussing this.
However, it isn't hard to talk my wife into going with me to conferences in big cities that's for sure..
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