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Bill raises a number of valid procedural questions about the organisation
of the BJCP, and Ed points out a number of practical considerations.  But
in the interest of noting the lighter side (and perhaps a bit of despair),
I couldn't resist responding to the following:

Bill Giffin wrote:
 
> Ed says:
> "Another point to consider is the fact that we've printed every single piece
> ever submitted by any BJCP member. Perhaps that could be taken as a hint
> that if we received more submissions, we'd publish more frequently"
> 
> Ed how is it that so many of the homebrew clubs though-out the country can
> manage to print a news letter each month and you as editor of the BJCP
> Reporter can only find enough material for one issue in a year?  With around
> 2,200 members of which a number of them are published authors in the brewing
> publications, you haven't been able to acquire enough material for quarterly
> issues of the BJCP Reporter.  Why is this?

Although many clubs do indeed publish some kind of a newsletter on a
monthly basis, a common thread among even those published monthly (not to
mention the less frequent ones) is that getting article submissions from
the membership is a never-ending (and often futile) effort.  I've seen one
newsletter that offers contributors a discount off next year's membership
dues in return for each article.  Others have "homebrewer of the year"
points awarded to people who (among other things) submit articles.

In short, it ain't easy, and the _writing_ of many of these newsletters
Bill sees falls to the newsletter _editor_, many of whom were
"volunteered" for the position as it is and do it out of a sense of duty
more than anything else.  Can we realistically expect them to contribute
to yet another newsletter when it's enough of a battle to get their own
newsletter out?

Now go have a beer,
Bob Paolino                                  rpaolino at earth.execpc.com
Madison
I can taste my beer.  Can you?  Bland Beer is the Worst Sort of Tyranny!
Don't drink bland industrial swill; it only encourages them to make more. 


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