MACNA XVII- In DC

gnatster · Post by **gnatster** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:15 pm

It indicates that it will cost $15 to wonder through the trade show exhibit.

I just saved $45 at least.

$30 in gas back and forth
$15 to see vendors

I'm not going

Cristy Keister · Post by **Cristy Keister** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:02 pm

Good point. I'll save my money for something that I can put in my tank.

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:02 am

I just registered - I know if I don't go I'll kick myself later for not going.
Should be fun. I hope I can get a tunze stream kit at aa decent price.

Ltrepeter2000 · Post by **Ltrepeter2000** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:33 am

Ghazanfar,

I will let you know if I am going to make it Sunday and if you are still there we can get together to check out some of the displays.

Rob

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:36 pm

I attended yesterday and today and I have to say I'm a little disappointed.
There were a lot of people attending, and a lot of vendors.
It was organized really really well - most everything seemed to be going
pretty smooth. A lot of speakers, varied topics, but almost consistantly the
quality of the talks IMO wasnt good. A lot of talk w/ little information.
A couple were like George Booths talk from AGA 2003 - been there, done that,
please tell me something new and I really don't care about your setup.

By contrast, even though I'm biased, I think the information presented to
the folks at the talks in AGA 2004 was of higher quality in terms of new information
provided to the attendees. I feel folks walked away from most of the talks / demo
with a wealth of information and an itch to try something new.

Here's my grade for MACNA 17
Vendors: A+ (40-60 vendors)
Organization: A+
Talks: C+
Venue: B+
A/V: A+

Overall I'll give it a B- since the talks is what I paid for primarily but don't
feel that I got my moneys worth.

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:39 pm

Oh..BTW, the same guy was there from Kent. I wanted to bash his head in with
a peice of PVC for promising GWAPA the product and then giving it away to
everyone last year. Somehow I managed to resist.

dmartin72 · Post by **dmartin72** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:25 pm

Did you see the size of some of those Protein Skimmers? What did you think of the modern show tanks from Deltec?

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:02 pm

Yeah the Deltec tanks were really something. unreal!

MACNA XVII- In DC

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