FMF - Friends of Minerals Forum, discussion and message board

[Jordi Fabre]

[Ed Huskinson]

Jordi: judging starts as soon as the public leaves the convention center and goes until we are finished. It takes two to three hours (sometimes more) to do the job, and then we decompress for a bit, usually at El Minuto. I cannot speak for all of the other judges, but I'm pretty sure that to try to get to any other venue would work a hardship on the judging staff. Generally at Tucson, from Wednesday night onward, my time is pretty much spoken for. Regardless of all this, I'll still see you in your booth.

All best wishes,

Ed (and the other judges)

Oh, it may be that Les will weigh in on this, so this may not be graved in stone yet. (To borrow from Peter Megaw).

[Maxilos]

[mmauthner]

Count me in, please!

See you all there!

Mark

[Jordi Fabre]

The reasons for the change of the "FMF party" to "FMF - Mineral Museum Professional Party" is the unique opportunity, one time each year, to combine the curators of the most important museums in the world with members of an online Forum where every level of knowledge/interest in minerals is represented.

This is an idea that I have long coveted, so taking advantage of the good luck that we had two different parties separated by only two days, and that both parties occur in the same place (Casa Vicente Restaurant in Tucson), in 2012 we will try a kind of fusion of all different elements in a relaxed atmosphere and friendly environment. I'm excited by this idea because with it I hope to bring together different mineralogical classes.

After I announced that the regular FMF party would be on Tuesday and then Gail edited the post clarifying the new status ( https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=18928#18928 ), there may have been some confusion, so this post is to definitely confirm the "FMF - Mineral Museum Professional Party" in Casa Vicente ( https://www.casavicente.com ) on Thursday, February 9th, 6-9 PM.

To attend it, everybody who attended the FMF party in past years is automatically invited, but please publish in FMF or send to me a PM confirming your intention to attend as well as the name of any guest. Other members of FMF will also be welcome, but please send a PM to me to confirm the invitation. Gail will work with her own Museum's list and she and I will also generate some "wild card invitations" for other people, so we are sure it will be a great party. We won't renounce the "informal" atmosphere we had in past years, but it will be just more fascinating people all together!

I am really sorry if for some people the change means they cannot attend, like the judges of the competitive cases at the Main Show. The Tucson Show is a giant monster and it is impossible to satisfy everybody because everyday unanticipated things happen. Anyway, we hope that the time frame of 6-9 PM will be long enough that at least a short visit to say Hi can be done.

If I'm not wrong, at the moment we now have eight people confirmed: Peter Lyckberg and Nadia, Linda Smith, John White, Mark Mauthner, Jordi Deusedes, Jordi Fabre and Gail Spann, and we need a re-confirm for Thursday from Steve Sorrell, Peter Megaw, Vic Rzonca, Cindy, Joan, Jesse and Ian.

There is a possibility that the crowd will be too large so that the service will be very slow and there will not be enough room for a group of that size. Actually, the museum people (SMMP) have a meeting the same day between 4 and 5 so they are likely to arrive at the party late, which means that everybody will not arrive at the same time. Additionally we will reserve the entire restautant so all service will be available for our party.

Let's try it this year and see what happens but I am sure the new party will be GREAT! ;-)

Jordi

[Joan Kureczka]

I've conferred with the others, and Thursday is fine for Jesse, me and Ian Jones.

[Linda Smith]

Jordi, Please add Robert Meyer who attended last year as my guest. Thank you.

[Jordi Fabre]

Thanks Joan and Linda. Booked! ;-)

[Jessica Simonoff]

I hope to be there! Is that one of the nights of the main show?
I will definitely be there for the main show, but not sure for any of the other days.

[vic rzonca]

We are still in, Jordi. Looking forward to it.

[Jordi Fabre]

Thanks Vic, you and Cindy are in.

Jessica, yes Thursday is the first day of the Main Show. Please confirm and number of guests (I assume three, you and your parents?)

Terry and Marie Huizing are in too.

[Matt_Zukowski]

I already have my tickets to Tucson and will certainly be there. I am trying to get my Mom and others of my family to come to Tucson at this time and, if so, I will see if they want to come. Jordi - will discuss any headcount issues off-line.

[crocoite]

OK by me Jordi...

Regards
Steve

[Jessica Simonoff]

Sorry Jordi - It's really likely that my family (3) will be there, but not 100% sure yet. I will be visiting high schools around that time so still need to check that that won't interfere. Will let you know just as soon as I'm back home!

[Jordi Fabre]

Plenty of time Jessica, don't really worry. ;-)