Upcoming Frag Fest

I like it! For member donated frags it could be a prerequisite for getting in your five min early :P For stores that donate it might be a bit harder to get done unless we had members volunteer. 

I really like this idea.  This is the second good I have heard this week.

Having participated in the prep for the last frag fest I can say that with the current process it is not likely that this can happen. Until I participated, I thought the same thing from the Jan09 event.

I can see last min donations from LFS is hard but anything being donated by a member, have the member take a pic of it befor the frag&bag. just a thought to get a few pics with a few items and it could show us if it would help the fragfest with sales or not. Take a pic tape it on bag it up. Id say we could vote on it to try even just for member donations but I dont want to write a 20 page detail list of who and how to vote cause I swear we live in florida and need it. Im up for any other ways or thoughts in this matter aswell.

I've helped with many frag fests...We always want pics of the corals (in a happy state).  As Terence, said, that has proven to be very difficult.  I believe there is a lot of improvements that can be made...but it takes volunteers to do it.

We typically start fragging at or before lunch time.  We all work pretty hard to frag, bag, and label everything.  Towards the end, w usually have someone preparing a short PPT presentation while everyone else finishes up.  Then we leave and go straight to the meeting.  Sometimes, it gets quite harried at the end, trying to finish on time.

We do show what pictures we can take or pull from the internet.  But, typically with the numbers of different varieties, people have a hard time remembering the "codes" for each frag, much less which picture it belonged to (if it even had one).

We often get some great ideas that would make it easier for the members....however, we still run out of time.  I personally have a lot of fun with the frag fests.  Both going to the meeting AND doing the work before hand.

In my opinion, the best way to improve the "process" is to get more people helping out.  I Know, I know, I wasn't there to help last time...sorry...I really couldn't make it.  But, its AWESOME when people, like Terence, not in the presidency come help out.  The more help we get, the quicker it will get done.  Then maybe we can implement some of the suggestions.

So, please, please, please...Come help out for January.

I would like to volunteer to help with the fraging for frag fest in January!

Edited by arthuriv - December 03 2009 at 9:33pm

I've been trying to brainstorm some ideas on this as well.  Please keep the ideas coming.  Even with a time crunch we may be able to figure something out when we put a bunch of ideas together.

I believe the January auction will have the auction corals in the display tank, with lights, and with a silent auction sheet.  Those corals won't be in bags or auctioned off out loud.  Instead club members will have time to walk around and place bids for 30 minutes while also picking out other frags. 

I think that's a great idea

That is just what we are trying to do. We are trying to find a way during the fraf fest to "see" the corals as they would be in a tank with the name not just a name and a squishy thing in a bag.