Re: "Aroideana" vs. Newsletter vs. Aroidl

Dear David,
 
Thank you for the welcome & eloquent information.  Thank you VERY much both and so  many others for making me rant!  As the present NewsEd this seems to be the present stage of IAS.   I am glad that I have no other channel  to present AGAIN quite unequivocally how I feel except in Public.  For a little while it may be the best way!!!!!   I am a true INDEPENDENT, a blowin from Mars via Venus, and have nothing to lose or gain in being positively forthright and  unequivocal, and being sensitive I have a very thick skin!   I do this for FREE and the sheer fun & hell of it all!  For the 21st Century, the INTERNATIONAL Aroid Society needs to be as influential and respected as possible for arguably the finest froup of plants on Earth.   This can only be achieved by having as many RESOURCES available as possible, people, plants and above all proper finance.  I 've got SO MANY ideas to help you go ballistic.  Provincial philosophies and holding on to old fashioned ways is fatal.  Throughout evolution that was the way to extinction.   As a brilliant gene pool of folks your potential for successful ADVANCE is great!
 
I have started a dialogue with a fairly firm stand in my Editorial of the June Newsletter to MEMBERS.  This is another strategic shake-up!
 
As I see it Aroid-L and SAMPLES of the IAS Web Site should be sufficiently attractive to those "on-line" to stimulate them to join the IAS.   First, it would be easy for Aroid-L folks to join if they could use their credit cards "on-line" or via FAX.  International Snail (Snair) Mail is ridiculous.  If we continue to give away seemingly a lot of what we have in a "SHOP WINDOW" on the Web Site and Aroid-L, FREE, the only reasons for non-Member Aroid-L people to join are:
 
1. Idealism, philanthropy, charity.
 
2. Aroideana (prestige & annual, more botanical than practical)... and it ought to BE ABLE to feel secure in keeping it that way for ALL MEMBERS PRIDES!  
 
3. The "Newsletter" which WAS, before me, a praiseworthy quarterly but a monologue, not a DIALOGUE.
 
3. Provincial Meetings at intervals in the States, mostly Florida.   Nothing for World Members?  (Aside, please can I have the email addresses of Aroid Societies in other Countries please, e.g David Burnett in Australia, Hi, again David!)
 
So, within a largely MEMBERS ONLY Web Site there needs to be DIALOGUE, uninterrupted.  A dialogue cannot be quarterly.   A Dialogue more than ten times a year needs to be "ON-LINE".  Any one who still clings to traditional print can easily have it downloaded or printed out EVEN in COLOUR.   The on site potential is Space Shuttle compared with the dying cart horse of a few sheets of paper quarterly.  (At any rate I won't flog a dying horse!).  A Members only Web Site with 95% of what is developing there, with dialogue central to its AROID KNOWLEDGE WISDOM & CULTURE is necessary.  At the moment, the World has the superb daily improving Web Site FREE, it can exchange, get advice etc, etc, FREE on Aroid-L.  Although they PAY, Members have NOWHERE to talk and say pretty blunt things just to the other 500 Members.   The IAS is a WORLD Group no longer a local Society.    We must meet the new needs.  Thankfully through digital technology it is an easy metamorphosis, all it requires is the WILL and I am certain that the wonderful IAS Members have that.   And also concentrate on making Aroid-L and SAMPLES of our WORLD SOCIETY Web Site with Video and Sound, REALLY BEGUILING to Aroid L folks so that they feel they MUST join IAS!   First offer the pre-requisite on line facilities for people in Tibet or Timbuctoo to join with their flexible friends!  Then I can end this rant to try get MORE & MORE people to BE ABLE to take part in REAL DAILY AROID NEWS for Members and to be able to incomparably more easily to get ALL the plants they read all about but presently have no ***** chance of seeing let alone GROW!  With care ANYBODY can tissue culture in their kitchens!  And that and all the other "how tos"
can be put more on the IAS Member's Site.  I joined expecting to join others to DO MY BIT for our little Planet!
 
The IAS is an International Society with a MAJOR ROLE, not a local club just for for "nice plants"!   
 
Rant over!  Now I hope to go quiet and watch the ACTION!   Meanwhile I'll try to get on with trying to get a HISTORIC SPECIALIST COLLECTION of PEACE LILIES and, (as a "BIOLOGIST" whatever that is!!!) to continue in my HISTORIC WORLD WORK IN HARMONY and the way Man sings and speaks to Man.
  
The following Haiku is apt:
 

The Last of its kind

Unutterably lonely

      Just like Greedy Man

 

From "Footprints in the Sand"

Ron Iles 2001

 
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