Mindbridge Foundation

Annual Meeting

1. Josh talks about the progress of Mindbridge over the past year.
   1. Rewritten the by-laws.
   2. Event to get more interest in Mindbridge.
2. Food was consumed. (more...)

Meeting convened at 7 pm.

Attending: Jon Maakestad, Michele Maakestad, Mark McKibben, Michelle Weinard McKibben, Dan Wojcik, Denny Lynch, Marty Milder, Pat McCauley, Megan Daly, Lindsay Elliott (recorder).
Attending by proxy: Kris Sigsbee (Michele), Jenny Todd (???), Josh Elliott (Lindsay), Dave Schrader (Pat), Athena Foster.

1. Reading of minutes was waived.
2. OLD BUSINESS
   1. Treasurer's report was waived as the treasurer was not in attendance.
   2. AI Report (Pat/Dan): Meeting was held last week.
      1. Con executives would like to request that formal requests from Mindbridge to AI be communicated in writing, to avoid confusion or ambiguity.
      2. AI would like to get a Sam's Club card, and wanted to know if Mindbridge would like to have a central account. Discussion ensued; AI is free to get a Sam's Club card (a membership card, not a charge card), as cost is minimal.
      3. AI's leadership stated that they will need to know about any changes made to the art show policy by June 1 in order to implement them effectively for this year's show.
      4. Bids for AI 2010 are now open; Pat indicated that a bid was in progress.
      5. Pre-registration is open; about 1000 members are registered.
      6. ACTION: AI also had a PayPal question that needed to be addressed with the treasurer. Hopefully this can be addressed by email? (more...)

Attendees: Megan Daly, Pat McCauley, Robin Buskirk, Bryon Stump, Josh Elliott, Lindsay Elliott, Jenny Todd, Christine Cromwell, David Leach, Marty Milder

1. Discussed anime Iowa moving dates in the future(we want them to move to a better weekend).
2. ICON sent out a postcard
3. Gamicon is AWESOME!
4. Pre-Planning Committee meeting April 11th at 11 am at the Mariott
5. Old Business
   1. All qualms about insurance were put to rest by Christine
   2. a revised Mindbridge Copyright policy was put forth by Josh Elliott
   3. it was voted satisfactory and will now be sent to a lawyer to be vetted
   4. copies at this time are available from Josh for perusal
6. New Business
   1. Request for the Mindbridge.org website to show the date,time and place for out next membership meeting in a prominent place on the front page, and to re-examine the right most sidebar of the front page for out of date information
   2. No information on the annual meeting was available
   3. Josh Elliott presented preliminary policies for mailing list and cash handling, is looking for people to assist with writing them.
   4. Josh Elliott presented a preliminary "Mindbridge Workshop weekend" event that would not be a convention but a staff retreat type event
   5. He will try to put forth the bid for it next month (and then vote on it the month afterwards)
   6. the Next few meeting places were discussed and the next meeting is at Casa Lynch at 7pm the first wednesday of may, the June meeting will be at ICPL again at 6pm and the july meeting will be the 2nd Saturday in july (to avoid the 4th of july) hopefully at ICPL or if we can find a better location in the meantime.
   7. Marty put forth the date of may 16th, as the tenative date for storage locker clean out, if this date doesnt work for you please let Marty know.

Attending: Dan Wojcik, Pat McCauley, Megan Daley, Josh Elliot, Lindsay Elliot, Ryan Kopf, Michelle Weinard McKibben, Mark McKibben, Bryon Stumpf, Christine Cromwell, Marty Milder, Denny Lynch & Steve Tait.

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 (more...)

Time and location: Iowa City Public Library, February 4, 2009.
Attending: Christine Cromwell, Megan Daly, Lindsay Elliott, Ryan Kopf, Kris Sigsbee, Bryon Stump, John Frick.
Proxy attendance: Jenny Todd, Michelle McKibben.
Proxy votes: None.
Meeting called to order at 6:00 pm.

1. Minutes from January meeting were not read because not completed. Megan resigned as secretary. Lindsay agreed to take minutes for this month's meeting, and compile minutes for last month's, once she receives notes from Megan.
2. Membership rolls were read. (more...)