Re: OT-CHAT TBIS and AIS - looking for positive change

I would like to say that I am in favor of the two organizations resolving their differences. That will probably take some time.

However I think some clarification is necessary:

On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Lobergs wrote:

I do know I've been
surprised here in Region 14 by AIS telling us it is not a good idea to involve
TBIS in any way with our 2004 AIS convention.
The reality of the situation is that because TBIS is a separate organization (just as the Rose Society or the Daylily society are separate organizations), the insurance policies that AIS has in place to cover the convention and its associated activities and attendees would be invalid if the AIS were to host a meeting for a society that is not part of the AIS organization.

I am not saying that there are not other feelings among the AIS constituency, both pro and con establishing a relationship between the two organizations, but the reason TBIS cannot participate "as an organization" in the AIS convention is a legal one.

Individual members of TBIS (and there are a lot of AIS members that are members of TBIS) are welcome to register and attend the AIS convention just as are members of the Rose Society, any other organization or individual.


John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.

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