I have an idea festering in the background to round up a few good  
projects by teams with serious depth, recruit them and propose a  
presentation at APT.  Let me know if you know of an exemplary team  
project.

-jc


On Sep 24, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:

> John,
>
> Jim Houston is a PTN member. So is Mr. Davidson.
> Good that you feel cranky. If you can figure how to make it worth  
> the while of trades to go to an APT conference I'm for it.
> As the APT-PTN liaison I go to the APT conference and hear about  
> how everyone regrets the trades being absent.
> And there is a lingering idea that I have something to do with that.
> I step up to try to do something about the divide and on all sides  
> I get stone walls. Talk is cheap and I have other stuff to do.
> Bryan Robinson, chair for the Atlanta conference, is a PTN member  
> and has always held out a good hand.
> We spent several hours in Halifax talking through possibilities of  
> interface. The weather was great and the beer cold.
> This year w/ PTN being focused on the October event in Holy Cross  
> 9th Ward (www.iptw.org <http://www.iptw.org/>) there was not energy  
> to reciprocate w/ APT.
> I have made overtures to the planners for the APT conferences in  
> 2007 and 2008 with suggestions of PTN involvement and to date have  
> nada as a response.
> I have people in PTN ready and willing, and honored to have been  
> asked by me, to participate in the interface... but I have nothing  
> to tell them.
> PTN does not have a reciprocal feeling of missing APT, in fact, a  
> whole lot of PTN'rs have no clue what APT is. So there is no  
> conversation to speak of on the PTN side.
> Mr. Davidson suggested a few free rooms and kegs of beer would do  
> the trick. Possibly our former BP'r David West, now I believe on  
> the APT BOD will take it a step further.
> There is a decided difference in culture between the two  
> communities. For one thing PTN has a band and we dance.
> We also have one hell of a kool auction where everybody has a good  
> time.
> If you are there you will be incredibly welcome. If you are not  
> there then hardly nobody will notice.
> Life is short.
>
> ][<en
>
> Mr. John J. Callan AIA wrote:
>
>> I was vaguely ashamed of my disappointment with the conference.
>
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