Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mark & Michelle McKibben
2055 4th Ave SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52403
Phone: 319-535-0781

1. Call to Order
2. Minutes from February Meeting were not read, but have been posted on the Mindbridge list and web site.
3. Treasurer’s Report has been posted on Google Documents.
4. Gamicon Report
   1. Went great, made money
   2. New location went over big!
   3. $375 to Camp Courageous
5. AnimeIowa Report
   1. Staff Meeting Saturday March 20th at 2:00 PM at the Coralville Convention Center.
   2. Staff Recruitment Meeting
6. Icon Report
   1. New Website soon! More guests to be announced.
7. Other Projects
   1. Preplanning Committee – nothing to report.
   2. Game Library – Demo nights at Hobby Corner in Iowa City
   3. Book Group - Book Group will be meeting at 6:00 pm on March 29th at Coffee Talk Café. They will be discussing The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
   4. Film Group will be meeting at 7:00 pm on March 26th at the McKibben's home. They will be discussing Metropolis and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
8. Old Business
   1. Gamicon Upsilon bid voted on and passed. Date – February 11th through 13th.
9. New Business
   1. Annual Membership meeting will be May 22nd in a picnic, cook-out format at a time and place yet to be determined.
10. Adjournment

Next meeting: April 7th at Iowa City Public Library at 6:00 pm.

Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Denny Lynch
68 36th Ave. SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404-4056
Phone: 319-365-5857

Date: Monday, February 22, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Coffee Talk Cafe
37 Kirkwood Ct SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Phone: (319) 363-4273

Dates: Friday, February 12, 2010 -- Sunday, February 14, 2010

Iowa Memorial Union
125 North Madison Street
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-335-3114

1. Call to Order
2. Minutes from January Meeting were not read, but have been posted on the Mindbridge list and web site.
3. Treasurer’s Report was read.
4. Gamicon Report
   1. February 12th – 14th
   2. Everyone very excited
   3. Will be in Main Lounge of Memorial Union

5. AnimeIowa Report
   1. Staff Meeting Saturday February 13th at 2:00 PM at the Coralville Convention Center.
6. Icon Report
   1. Everything on track.
7. Other Projects
   1. Preplanning Committee – nothing to report.
   2. Game Library – New stuff donated by game companies.
   3. Book Group - Book Group will be meeting at 6:00 pm on February 22th at Coffee Talk Café. They will be discussing The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein.
   4. Film Group will be meeting at 7:00 pm on February 26th at Bryon Stump’s home. They will be discussing Pinnochio and The Curse of Frankenstein.
8. Old Business
   1. Office Space Update – no update this meeting
   2. Charitable Donations – the following was approved:
      1. $2,000 for the Cedar Rapids Public Library
      2. $500 each for the Iowa City Public Library, the Coralville Public Library, the North Liberty Public Library, and Tanager Place.
9. New Business
   1. Jon Maakestad presented a bid for Gamicon 2011. This will be voted on at the March membership meeting.
10. Adjournment

Next meeting: Gamicon, February 14th at 11 am, then March 3rd at Denny Lynch’s home at 7:00 pm.

Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Iowa City Public Library, Room A
123 South Linn St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
Phone: 319-356-5200

1. Call to Order
2. Minutes from December Meeting were not read, but have been posted on the Mindbridge list and web site.
3. Gamicon
   1. Questions were raised by members.
      1. Has a mailing gone out yet?
      2. Have any guests been announced?
4. AnimeIowa
   1. January meeting on January 9th at 2pm at the Marriot Convention Center.
   2. Park in the ramp otherwise subject to getting a ticket.
5. ICON 35
   1. Did we send a letter to Doctorow?
   2. Noted that it will be the second weekend in November.
6. Preplanning Committee: Nothing to report.
7. Game Library: Nothing to report.
8. Old Business
   1. NOTE: There was some question on whether or not we had sufficient people present to vote on anything.
   2. Office Space Proposal
      1. Put down payments of $40,000 and finance the rest for 10-20 years.
      2. Hold off on building a second floor and creating a separate office space.
      3. Moving into new space should occur separate from any convention times.
      4. Questions that arose:
         1. Do we have a certain time frame for an offer of buying this space?
         2. How much was insurance and property taxes on this location?
         3. We noted that other questions might still come up from other members that were not present.
   3. Tax Update
      1. Most of the stuff was done by Christine already.
      2. Do we have a portable box or safe deposit box with documents?
      3. If it is a portable box then who was the keys?  We need to look for the nonprofit letter from the government.
   4. Charitable Donations
      1. There was a brief discussion of the various proposals that were sent to the mailing list.
      2. It was mentioned that the board was not necessarily comfortable with a large (e.g. ~$5000) donation given that we are looking into buying office/storage space.
      3. The consensus reached by those present was that the following donations should be made:
         1. $2,000 to the Cedar Rapids Public Library
         2. $500 to Tanager Place
         3. $500 each to the Coralville Public Library, North Liberty Public Library & Iowa City Public Library
      4. It was further recommended that the money not be tied to specific strings on how it is being spent but that a recommendation/request that it be used for Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Anime/Manga materials go with it.
9. New Business
   1. Michelle McKibben would like to remind members that there is a 6 month limit on submitting any volunteer points earned at any of our conventions.
   2. The group discussed having lanyards and shirts as possible volunteer gifts for points. Michelle is currently looking into the lanyards.  Will discuss with friend about embroidering shirts and get cost estimates.
   3. We also are working on Minebridge buttons to show our support for our group to be worn by members at functions.
   4. Michelle Weinard McKibben was nominated by the group to run for Board.
   5. Questions rose on having the next meeting. We were wondering if we could have a Minebridge meeting at Gamicon on Feb. 13th instead of Feb. 3rd. Would we have space at the convention to have a meeting? Or do we need to pay for a separate room? We also noted that there is an AnimeIowa meeting also on Feb. 13th at 2 pm. Tentative times if possible (?): 10 am Board of Directors and 11 am for Minebridge meeting? Or is our deadline to change it already past?
10. Next Meeting currently scheduled for Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 6 PM in the Iowa City Public Library.

Date: Friday, January 15, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Denny Lynch
68 36th Ave. SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404-4056
Phone: 319-365-5857

His novels are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest novel, New York Times Bestseller Little Brother, was published in May 2008, and his latest short story collection is Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present. In 2008, Tachyon Books published a collection of his essays, called Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future (with an introduction by John Perry Barlow) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction called Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now. His next novel is Makers, due from Tor Books in October, 2009.

He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, the Organization for Transformative Works, Areae, the Annenberg Center for the Study of Online Communities, and Onion Networks, Inc.

In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him, "The William Gibson of his generation." He was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders for 2007.

He is presently working on a new young adult novel, FOR THE WIN (about union organizing in video games).

On February 3, 2008, he became a father. The little girl is called Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, and is a marvel that puts all the works of technology and artifice to shame.