In hopes of ILDA creating a new membership catagory for hobiests similar to the one they have for students I have started a petition.
Currently the cost per year is $125 iirc for a member that is not a student-- they can join for iirc $50 per yr. There are more 'catagories' that cost more.
Anyone just getting into projectors are faced with a lot of expensive gear and SW so $125 may keep them away from ILDA.
I have started a petition to ask ILDA to add the hobbiest to the student group or designate a user group that is also only $50 per year, personally it would not bother me to not have voting privledges etc but would still like to help support ILDA and get their newsletters and be able to display the ILDA logo in my posts.
In November there will be a big conferance for ILDA in San Antonio Tx.
I will be there and will address this issue and present the petition- SO I need names to make them see that they are losing out of member fees to us hobbiests. ILDA needs to know that we are serious about both lasershows and safety. They are excluding future Pros by not allowing an affordable option. We are not trying to steal gigs from those who have gotten a variance and are compliant(C&V).
Some of the hobbiest will never do this and become C&V , while many surely will.
We will also be asking for a new catagory in the awards for the novice/beginner/hobbiest--
People who can influence ILDA about this are Bill Benner of Pangolin, Tim Walsh of LaserSpecticals (Sam MarcosTX and past pres. AND the founders of ILDA) and Dr. Charles Maricle of AixiZ Lasers and an ILDA corperate sponsor & conference sponsor. You can also help us greatly on this by sending your opinion directly to ILDA and all three of these members.
thanks for reading this and PLEASE send me a PM with your name so I can add your to our petition. Of course being on the petition is not binding.
Please put ILDA PETITION IN THE HEADING.
V/R
hak(LEN)