Date: Monday, March 29, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

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, March 23, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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

1. Reading of the previous minutes were waived.
2. Treasury Report: Available on Google group or by request from treasurer.
3. Gamicon Report
   1. 160: Attendance showed
   2. Broke even & a little ahead this year.
   3. Decrease due to RPGAs this year changes to new game started
   4. Promotional mailing out late
   5. Fun time
4. AnimeIowa Report
   1. 162 pre-registrations @ 2008 con
   2. 60 pre-registrations via PayPal
   3. 44 pre-registrations sent in via snail-mail.
   4. Early Bird pre-registration ends at the end of March.
   5. Staff Recruitment @ last meeting.
5. ICON Report
   1. Send out postcard mailing soon.
   2. Guests of Honor
      1. Author: Jim C. Hines
      2. Aristst: Heather Bruton
   3. Will be held at the Cedar Rapids Marriot
6. Pre-Planning Committee Report
   1. Nothing to report at this time.
7. Old Business
   1. Liability Form
      1. AI agrees
      2. Josh will create in the next month (April)/May
      3. Should be sent to Nate Rohwer
   2. Gamicon Bid
      1. Approved
         1. Ayes: 14
         2. Nays: 0
         3. Abstains: 0
      2. To be held Feb 12-14, 2010 at the Iowa Memorial Union.
         1. 1st floor main ballroom
      3. Possible guest: Shawn Beatty (computer & console gaming)
      4. 3 minor guests: Gary Lange, Steve Crow, Phil Thompson
      5. expand RPGS
      6. theme: The Tau of Gamicon
   3. Insurance Issues
      1. This has been resolved.
      2. Minor issues remain:
         1. increase medical coverage
         2. increase staff#s covered
         3. update address info
            1. change to locker address/no physical space until new office
8. New Business
   1. Expand meetings to have a weekend meeting for people who cannot make Wednesday meetings.
      1. Wednesdays meetings rotate between: Cedar Rapids & Iowa City
      2. First Saturday meeting under discussion for when/where.
   2. Trek Fest
      1. 25th Anniversary
      2. Guests featured: Sulu (George Takei), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), & Chekov (Walter Koenig)
   3. Zombie March
      1. Should Mindbridge sponsor it?
         1. Ayes: 14
         2. Nays: 0
         3. Abstains: 0
   4. Mindbridge Foundation Annual Membership Meeting
      1. When (May?)/Where to be decided at next meeting.
   5. Proxy Voting
      1. Some rewriting of the by-laws will be done to clarify how these are supposed to work.
9. Announcements
   1. Book Group will be meeting March 23rd @ 6PM to discuss Ghosts in the Snow
   2. Film Group will be meeting after this meeting concludes.

Date: Wednesday March 4, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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

1. Call to order at 7:00 pm
2. Minutes from last meeting
3. Treasurer’s Report
   1. $ 9507.11 Mindbridge
   2. $ 12634.62 AnimeIowa
   3. $ 9501.87 Icon
   4. $ 6641.11Gamicon
   5. Discrepancy for Mindbridge and AnimeIowa accounts due to CD investment for each account. $25K

4. AnimeIowa
   1. AnimeIowa meeting at 2 pm March 8, 2008.
   2. Mailer is coming together
   3. Open Pre-registration on their web site.
   4. Pay pal is still coming up.
   5. Still looking for some positions.
5. Icon
   1. Not a lot going on right now.
   2. Pre-planning for art show.
   3. Registration open for while
   4. Art show policy
   5. Mugs for sale. $8
   6. Website plans: Up and coming.
   7. Thinking about changing Pay Pal accounts.
6. Gamicon
   1. The best weather we’ve had for a Gamicon in five years.
   2. 217 attended.
   3. 270 was our budgeted break even point.
   4. Cancellations due to the weather of some dealers and presenters.
   5. Overall, a good time was had by all.
   6. We have yet to look at the budget and how we did.
7. Preplanning Committee Report
   1. Hotel stuff
   2. Icon 34 bid: Josh is thinking about it.
8. Other Project Reports
   1. Game Library
      1. Games were sold and more games will be purchased.
      2. Gamicon donated games to game library
9. Old Business
   1. Gamicon Bid: Postponed until figures, then vote on the bid.
   2. Mindbridge Book Discussion: postponed.
   3. Updating the Mindbridge Fliers: postponed.
   4. Safe Deposit Box: Christine?
10. New Business
    1. Technology Committee? Back up power adaptors?
    2. Spring Picnic: Dan Wojcik
    3. Database update
       1. Send out a postcard
       2. Send out electronic versions
       3. Also weed out database
       4. Lindsay would be willing to spearhead this.
       5. We can probably due some pruning beforehand.
       6. Require an email check off on con information
       7. Proposal forthcoming
    4. We should make an effort to be more current more often with our tech. (i.e. Steve and limbo)
    5. Mark updated the Mindbridge website. Kudos to him.
11. Announcements
    1. Steve picked up and paid for taxes.
    2. Close the books on last icon soon.
    3. Cath’s Film Stuff
    4. Bill Albert has a book coming out
    5. Marty’s award has been accepted on Marty’s behalf. He need no longer worry about it chasing him at meetings, and should come back.
12. Meeting Adjourned at 7:43 pm.

Next Meeting: April 2, 2008 6 pm at the library in Iowa City.

Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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

Date: Wednesday March 7, 2007
Time: 7:00PM - 8:00PM CST (GMT-06:00)
Location: Lynch Casa, 68 36th Ave. SW Cedar Rapids, IA 52404-4056
Phone: 319-365-5857