The Mindbridge Book Discussion Group met last Friday at the Coffee Talk Cafe. We discussed what we were looking to get out of starting this group as well as what books we were planning on reading for the group. Our first selection is The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon (winner of the 2007 Nebula Best Novel award.)
If you would care to read the book and join us, our next meeting is scheduled for 6:00 PM on Monday, May 19, 2008 at the Coffee Talk Cafe in Cedar Rapids.
April 2, 2008
- Introductions
- Call to order at 6 pm
- Minutes from last meeting
- Treasurer’s Report
- $ 9053.53 Mindbridge
- $25,000 Mindbridge CD
- $ 3903.19 AnimeIowa
- $25,000 AnimeIowa CD
- $ 9747.08 Icon
- $ 3006.75 Gamicon
- Gamicon
- $487.77 Profit
- 217 Attending
- Went well.
- AnimeIowa
- Next meeting April 19th
- Pay pals up and running
- Lots registering
- Cap 3000
- Room Deposit $50.00
- Icon
- October 31-33, 2008
- Copyright letters for art
- Preplanning Committee Report
- Icon 2009 and 2010: Coralville Marriot
- Potentially move that whole con into the Exhibit Hall
- Weekend after Thanksgiving, or October 15-17
- Willing to look at another hotel.
- No guests yet. Need hotel and dates
- Gamicon
- Still working on guests for 2009
- Hotel: Interested in signing a 3-5 year contract
- Other Project Reports
- Game Library
- Made some money
- Put $79 in Mindbridge Account
- Book Discussion Group
- April 25 at 6 pm Coffee Talk Café
- Technology Committee
- Database pruning
- Old Business
- Gamicon Bid: Passes
- Updating Mindbridge Fliers: Pending group approval. Ryan may take this on.
- Safety Deposit Box.
- Done.
- At Hills Bank at Old Capitol.
- Christine and Michele have keys
- $100 a year
- Technology Committee
- Database pruning
- Spring Picnic: Waiting for Dan
- New Business
- Copy Right Letter Discussion
- Will continue
- Key Master: List of keys
- Key master should be easy going
- Transportation
- Think of volunteers.
- Meat and Cheese Slicer
- A resounding no.
- Liability and health concerns
- Bulk Buy Badges
- 5000 badges
- Buy badges from Mindbridge
- Talk to all the con folks.
- Do it after Gamicon every year.
- Icon bid
- Some here tonight.
- Hotel information pending.
- Lindsay and Josh Elliot, Athena Foster, and Galen Silversmith con comm for Icon 34
- Other bids are accepted until next month.
- Meet at IMU instead of library?
- Announcements
- A visit from LARP guys. Hook them up. Yes!
- Three of five board of directors approve changing fiscal year from April 1-March 31
- Barnes & Noble: George RR Martin online March 14/li>
- Meeting Adjourned at 7 pm.
Next Meeting: May 7, 2008 7 pm at Chez Lynch in Cedar Rapids
Welcome to the latest incarnation of the Mindbridge Foundation website. We’ve just upgraded WordPress to the latest version, installed a new gallery plugin and have a new installed a new theme custom crafted for Mindbridge. A couple of quick acknowledgements:
- Thanks to NASA for everything they do and in particular for the image used to help create our new header graphic.
- Thanks to Mark Boulton for his article on designing grid systems.
- Thanks to Michael Angeles for his excellent post on designing blog theme templates from grid systems.
- Thanks to Mark James for the beautiful Silk icons.
- Thanks to Justin Tadlockes for the great tips on using custom fields in WordPress.
One quick note about a new feature with this incarnation of the site, we’re now supporting the use of both hCard and hCalendar microformats. This means if you have the Operator extension for Firefox installed and visit our home page, you can use it to export contact, event and address information (e.g. add one of our events to your calendar, including the event’s address). This wouldn’t have been possible without the custom fields tips from Justin Tadlockes mentioned above.
We hope you enjoy using our freshly upgraded site, but if you do happen to run across any problems with it, please use our contact form to let us know!
