One thing that was useful when planning an ornithological convention was that the organization kept a set of files that were passed from one local committee to the next. It included budgets (including who you got quotes from), what you decided to do (and, generally, why), and a post-event self-evaluation. This last was meant as a "warning" to future local committees about what went well and what was a flop.
Since this was kept and passed on year after year, you could more readily learn from several years' worth of past-committee successes and mistakes. So even if everyone on your committee went to last year's event, there was also info from years before. This would be a good thing for IOLI's committee on events/convention oversight to begin and maintain. For the ornithological organization, there were two copies--one held by next year's local committee and one by the following year's--of all the materials for the past several (5?) years. When this year's local committee was done, it sent its recommendations and warnings to the organization, to be forwarded to the future local committees. just a suggestion, Robin P. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
