Mindbridge minutes Wednesday, 3 May 2006
- The meeting was held in Iowa City at 6:00 pm, at The Mill
- The meeting was called to order by Catherine Schaff-Stump
- Treasures report by Jon Maakestad
- checking account balance: $9,772.30
- AnimeIowa account balance: $23,164.00
- ICON account balance: $1,215.80
- Gamicon account balance: $1,915.74
- This is actually short a bit, because there is money sitting in Paypal.
- The minutes from last time were not read by Christine Cromwell, people may read them on the Mindbridge website
- AnimeIowa report
- The next meeting will be May 13, 2006, Jon Maakestad said, he also said to have your mother sign up for the masquerade.
- still completing the contract, we are penciled in at the Paramount in Cedar Rapids (for the masquerade)
- the convention will be at the Crown Plaza, two blocks from the Paramount
- Heidi Henson, the logistics person for AnimeIowa, visited the meeting
- Icon report
- Josh Elliot said the dealers mailing will be going out in a few weeks
- Lindsay Jones said things were going well
- Gamicon report
- Brian Womachka said the general meeting was held last week
- they have a flyer ready
- there is an online panel discussion, a 24 hour gaming room, the survival pack will be back
- Pre-Planning Committee report
- Dan Wojcik and James Osvald will be meeting with the Marriott for Icon 32, 2007
- The proposal has been given to the board
- They are thinking of holding AnimaIowa 2007 at the Coralville Convention Center, the Convention Center will have a bid for us next month, it will open August 2006
- Costume Con 24 will be the last weekend in May at Hotel Fort Des Moines
- Art Show Policy Vote
- discussion continues regarding copyright issues
- Bryan Stump said if the art is a parody, and not to make money, but is challenged in court, it usually goes to the ones with the most money, judges have been awarding $150,000 per item
- Cath Schaff-Stump said the best place for protection is a change of medium, paint pictures of B5 characters, the Andy Warhol effect, if get permission it is okay
- the Con can display but not sell
- a vote was held for the art policy: 13 approved, 0 opposed, 2 Joshes (abstained)
- the art policy will go into effect January 2007
- Storage locker inventory
- Marty Milder would like to inventory the storage locker Saturday, May 20 at noon
- the rain date will be Sunday, May 21, 2006
- the storage locker is located at the Penn Street Mini Storage, #21 (take exit 4 off I-380 and go east about 1.4 miles, Penn Street Mini Storage is on the left/north side of W Penn Street, 1020 Penn St, North Liberty, IA)
- we will remove the totes, rearrange
- Update on personnel issues: Pending board meeting
- the board will be discussing the following issues:
- personnel issues
- board member rotation will be considered, some members are permanent with no end to the position
- board member to replace Josh Hammel
- advertising team
- pre-planning members for con
- the board will be discussing the following issues:
- June 2006 meeting
- Cath Schaff-Stump will be in Russian, congratulations to a new Fulbright Scholar
- Brian Womachka will run the June meeting
- the June 2006 meeting will be held at The Mill at 6:00
- July 2006 meeting
- there was discussion about the July meeting which is suppose to be in Cedar Rapids or North Liberty
- originally we were going to alternate between Cedar Rapids (CR Public Library or Denny Lynch’s house) and North Liberty (Pizza Ranch on Dubuque St) every three months
- some people thought North Liberty was not central enough and that the meeting should be in Cedar Rapids
- some one suggested having a cook out at Denny Lynch’s house
- Christine Cromwell will contact Denny to see if we can do this and what he would require of us
- Bids for AnimeIowa 2007
- Dan Wojcik is ready to accept bids for AnimeIowa 2007
- a statement will be added that by attending AnimeIowa, a person gives permission to have their pictures used
- Tracie Michlin said that we should give everyone an out in case they didn’t want their picture used
- Jon Maakestad will post three refund policies options for us to look at and consider for con membership
- meeting was adjourned