2025 Conference

Location and Date

  • UPDATE (12/9): Poll results (25 participants)

    • Click for Poll Summary

    • Location tally

      • Nashville 9 45% (Jim can’t attend here)

      • Dallas 7 35%

      • Kansas City 4 20 % (Rob lives nearby and has offered to help with planning)

  • UPDATE (11/26/24). Only four board members provided input to our methodology, so we’re moving ahead with a poll to ask for input.

    • Only those who plan to attend (plus “maybes”) will be asked to vote.

    • We’ll ask for input on content, cost, and activities during the conference and MWSA programs and benefits (open to all).

    • We’ll take member input to fix and approve the location during our Dec 11 board meeting.

  • San Diego, so now mid or east

    • We traditionally alternate West of Mississippi, East of MS, central US

    • Last 8 conferences:

      • San Diego, CA

      • New London, CT

      • New Orleans, LA

      • Virtual (Covid)

      • Albuquerque, NM (joint w SWW)

      • Charleston, SC

      • San Antonio, TX

  • Top 3 from conf survey: Nashville, Kansas City, Dallas

    • In the conference survey spreadsheet below, click on “Location Tally” (at the bottom of the spreadsheet) to see the results from San Diego attendees.

  • Vote by membership on location and/or date

    • If we’re soliciting input on the date, I’d ask for a date range: i.e., end of Sept, or mid-Oct, or early November, etc.)

    • Date range constrained by awards schedule—earlier than mid-September tough-to-impossible. December is too busy. Also, need to allow time for travel planning for awards finalists.

  • We need to nail down the location and date soon to allow planning

    • My preference is to have our membership vote by the end of THIS MONTH (November), approve in our Dec 11 meeting, and announce after approval.

  • Organizer? Cathcart if no one else wants to run it.


2024 Conference Survey