Quote:
|
Originally Posted by iceman
Nice report Ian.. was speaking to Glenn Dawes about it at SPSP when I heard it was being held in Sydney in 2008.. will definitely make my way along to that one!
|
Ian,
I too liked your report. It was also great to meet you and hope to see you in Sydney in 2 years.
Mike,
I also appreciate your comment above and your interest in coming along in 2008. NACAA needs all the help it can get for it has been flundering for a number of years and showing flagging support from the astronomical societies. Because of this NACAA went through some wide sweeping changes last weekend - most of which were not finally ratified until the close of the event and hence not known to the bulk of the attendees. Much of the details will still need to be worked out but it is the intention of NACAA to become an incorporated, non profit organisation (along the lines of most societies). I will only give an overview for now (and even this is shaky) but this work has already included an appointment of an initial committee or "Secretariat" to make this happen. Also the concept of 'Delegates" and their meeting is out. It is likely to be replaced by an AGM of some sort at NACAA. The host body will no longer need to be a society, eg. the 2008 'Host body' consists of Stephen Russell, Brett McMillian and myself. You might hear it is the Sutherland AS but this is incorrect.
I think when it comes to truly National amateur astronomical events/organizations in this country I believe there are 3.
1) NACAA
2) Ice in Space
3) SPSP.
So in the future, with the permission of Mike/IIS of course, I could see this forum being a great benefit in communicating NACAA information (as I think it has already been for the SPSP just by the discussions).
I hope you guys agree.
Regards
Glenn