Re: [Harp-L] Re: SPAH Election - An Observation

["Hal Iwan" <haliwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Winslow, please tell me where I can get a rosy paint brush like you have.

Also, how/who counts the votes, a private firm? FL, 2004 entered my mind 
unfortunately.

Hal Iwan



I'm sorry that you're getting a negative impression of SPAH.

Trust me, the convention itself has none of this political hype going on. 
The entire five days is a contact high from the shared enthusiasm, and the 
hang time - informal learning and jamming, along wtih the more formal 
seminars and performances, the ability to interact directlywith the vendors 
and manufacturers - it's all amazing.

I thk that anyone who has been to the SPAH convention (really more of a 
festival) will agree that you don't want to miss a great event in August, 
because of some of the talk going on in March just as voting is about to 
start.


Winslow


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From: Steve Power <stevepower@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 12:35 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: SPAH Election - An Observation

Is it just me or is this SPAH election starting to look/sound like a bunch 
of folks running for some government office?

I'm seeing "message" statements along the lines of "throw out the 
insiders","change and hope", "croonyism", "We're great and they suck."

My experience of various such organizations and soicieties is that they 
quickly become clique-ish, with all the various cliques accusing all the 
other cliques of being clique-ish while promoting their own non-existent 
inclusivness.

I'm not a member of SPAH. I kind of thought about it and of attending this 
years conference, but nah. Too much monkey business for me to get involved 
in.