Glen/ Ray et al,
We, like the BOSS guys have already established contacts with the professionals and through our efforts have also established our credibility with quality submissions of spectra to their nominated campaigns.
All the professionals (and their research students) are highly supportive of our work and go out of their way to help us understand the significance of the spectral features we record for them.
Our group SASER (Southern Astronomical Spectroscopy Email Ring)
http://saser.wholemeal.co.nz/
supports all interested amateurs in serious spectroscopy.
Likewise I have a Yahoo group with almost 1000 members, Astronomical Spectroscopy for Amateurs
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/...ctroscopy/info
which is an ideal platform for sharing both technical and observational information.