Like others, I am looking forwarding to hearing what classes I got for this
summer and also to meeting other Arachne at the lunch. I picked up a cute
raffle prize for the lunch last week. You will have to attend to see what it
is ;-}
I also wrote to the 2011 and 2012 convention hosts asking t
The main purpose for holding a convention by IOLI is to have the Annual Meeting
which is required in our byelaws. If everyone present at the convention
decided
to skip it, we may not have a quorum for any votes that are needed as it is
based on a percentage of convention attendees being presen
Now that the Bulletin magazine is arriving in mail boxes (got mine today) I
feel that I can say, as the Teacher Coordinator for conventions, that the
information about the Sacramento, California convention is on the IOLI website
http://www.internationalorganizationoflace.org
and if you go to the
Dear Devon,
I am from England and have attended the last two IOLI conventions. I have
been to a Lace Guild convention and two OIDFA's in Barcelona and Gent. Each
offers different aspects of lace and lace making.
I particularly enjoy the IOLI conventions because they are well organised
and hosted
Unless you have chaired a large convention, and dealt with a large
hotel, you probably don't realize what a meal costs in that environment.
Also realize that part of the price is the room cost, as well as the food
and the service. Unless the group wishes to change the format of future
Arachne me
I have chaired an IOLI convention in Rockford where we managed to keep the cost
of the Arachne lunch down to $20. I did mention in my last email that the I am
aware that the cost covers the room as well as food and service. I am not
attacking Portland as I appreciate how much hard work it is t
Hi Janice -
I don't get to all of the IOLI conventions... I go every three or four
years. And so I don't think my opinion is necessarily as valid as that
of someone who is a "regular"!
However, regardless of the pricepoint, I think that whatever the food
is, in a conference hotel, you're p
FWIW, I have hosted a fair amount of hotel events in my life and what often is
forgotten, is most all is negotiable, without losing quality. You start with
asking about food offerings, shift and change to the dollar amount, and back
to food again. Sometimes meals are brought down to half, and oth
