>Hi Bruce (and others),
>
>you hopefully know that all of the articles published in our journal may
>be reprinted to non-commercial purposes just for sending as to copies of
>the magazine they are published in. In the moment we are in the lucky
>situation (thanks Norbert's outstanding work) to have enough articles.
>But times may change and some time ago we also had to reprint articles
>from RSG and ANGFA.
Getting articles for hobby publications has also been difficult and always
will be. The trend in nearly all hobby organisations these days is for most
members to sit back and be entertained and do nothing. I guess this is the
sign of the times. In the old days (God help me) most members used to get
actively involved in everything but I'm afraid those days are gone. So most
of the work and anguish is share by the very thankless few who volunteer for
committee positions. Eventually, even they get jack of it all especially
when most of the criticism comes from those that just want to sit back. In
extreme cases this has even caused the demise of the organisation.
Personally, I wouldn't like to see the same thing happen to ANGFA. In my
short time (30 years) in this hobby I have seen the demise of 2 Aquarium
Societies just in my home town and the virtual collapse of a once great
aquarium society, all due to lack of participation on the part the membership.
However regarding publications, when a standard is set too high and tries to
be something that it really isn't then it becomes even more difficult and
alienates the average member from contributing.
Adrian.
ps. For those interested the Bulletin Editors position will be up for grabs
at the end of this term (even earlier, if someone wants it) so all you
budding editors or writers this is the chance you've all been waiting for.
There's one major benefit, in that you can always get your own articles
published ;-)
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Adrian R. Tappin
"Home of the Rainbowfish"
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
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