Jim,
I'm intrigued by your letter.
In the first part of the letter you state that your club is to cheap to take
advantage of the scheduled speakers ( BTW, Rob K. does a great job
scheduling it all) and that if it isn't Ben O. no one is interested, and
when Colin was there no one came...

Then you go on wondering how you can get a better list of speakers.??
BTW, BCI does offer a list and I THINK it will be updated.) There is no
end to ways to find speakers, but,

It seems that you (and your club) need to figure out how to get your
attendance up, grow some funds and then make some speaker choices. What
good is a list of 100 speakers if you don't take advantage of them when they
drive by your town, or don't show up when they stop at your town?

Regards,
Dale "Looking for the best deal on a car although I don't plan on buying
one" Cochoy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lewis"
Subject: [IBC] Meeting programs


The Bonsai Societies of Florida do something similar every fall
for the upcoming year, in an attempt to make it worthwhile for
experts to come to this oddly-shaped,
hard-to-get-around-in-economically state. (My club is do darned
cheap (or something), however, that if the "expert" isn't named
Ben Oki they don't seem to be interested. We turned down all the
folks on the Florida list this year. We had Colin a year or so
ago, and virtually no one came. :-( )

Anyway, is there some central point that lists available
speakers, etc.? We tried doing something on the gallery, but
there were comparatively few participants. We have an
experimental "Calendar" offering on the gallery now, but it's
empty.

How would we -- how _could_ we establish a central repository of
people who are available to give programs, demos or workshops,
their rates and fees, their specialties, and the area to which
they are willing to travel?

Is it something we could do on the IBC web page? The NBF in its
"umbrella" role? The WBFF? BCI? The IBC is International, the
NBF is North American, NBFF and BCI are International. They all
have differing official and unofficial "roles".

I'm sure that we all know the half dozen or dozen or so folks who
show up virtually everywhere every year, but I know there are
experts in every state who are largely unheralded (for whatever
reason). How do we make a list like this happen -- AND STAY
CURRENT?

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL -- Bonsai List
manager


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