The trend toward making the symposiums money making events seems to grow. The Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Association has one that the good people at White Squall Outfitters manage using local talent for speakers and then only paying them if they have a surplus. In short, White Squall makes nothing as they pay their own staff out of thier funds. Fees are reasonable at $45 CAN and a real bargain considering the talent that speaks and provides seminars. I usually get enough to pay my gas (a comment on my seminars I suppose) but I have great fun and always learn a lot. To find out a little about it visit. http://www.whitesquall.com/index01.htm I don't have any connection with White Squall, they don't sell my designs (they sell my competitors) but they are great people, don't use the symposium to sell products (although they do sell their stuff the day before), and I would speak for free. Cheers, John Winters Redwing Designs Web site address, http://home.ican.net/~735769 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Feb 27 2000 - 05:55:51 PST
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