Klarinet Archive - Posting 001089.txt from 1998/07

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Dorm Rooms at OSU (was Columbus Tapes)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 01:23:46 -0400

Margaret Cheatham wrote:
>While I'm in a rant mood, might as well throw this one out, too: Was anyone
>besides me annoyed to learn that if you paid for just a couple of days of
>the conference, you didn't get the full printed program?

Dear Klarinetters,
I'm putting together a letter to send Alan Stanek/Robert Spring on
ClarinetFests in specific and the ICA in general. Instead of talking amongst
ourselves, I figure it'd be better to coordinate the comments and put
together a letter saying

1) what's right with the Fest & ICA
2) What could possibly be better with the Fest & ICA
and, most importantly,
3) Suggestions on implementing (2).

It's easy to do 1 and 2, hard to do 3. I promised Alan I'd get back to him
in a few more weeks.

I truly feel that the ICA and Fests are between 10 or 20% (in terms of
numbers) of what they truly should be - instead of 800 people attending a
Fest, I feel that between 4000 and 8000 should be attending. As a former
member of ACM/SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics), we used to have
20-30,000 people attending conferences. This was for a _specialty_ area of
computing, not a general purpose one! Even SIGCHI (Computer/Human
Interfaces) would attract 2000-3000 people, and there weren't many glitzy
computer booths there, either.

I look at how many people are playing clarinet in the high school/college
arena, look at where the Fest was held this year, and I wonder why we didn't
have at least 2-3000 people show up.

So please feel free to send me your comments, pro and con, on both the ICA
and ClarinetFests. I'll "anonymize" the comments and incorporate them into a
public letter, which I'll send to Stan, Bob, and the list. Please help with
(3), and remember (1).

Send your ideas to:
FestComments@-----.org

Thanks in advance for your input,
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Mark Charette, Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
charette@-----.org
"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger
"I never buy a cookbook from a thin person. I know it'll be
fiction." - Erma Bombeck

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