March 2015 Minutes
- Minutes – emailed and posted online
- Treasurer’s Report – read, more than last month
- Convention Reports
- Gamicon
- Nearly beat ICON for attendance, 523 people!!!
- Signed contract for Gamicon 25 Mn, Feb.26-28, 2016 at the Iowa City Sheraton.
- 56 visitor badges (may call NPC badge next year)
- sold over 300 lots at auction
- $419.50 gamcon, VA $627
- 55 unique buyers
- hotel next year will have space downstairs for sell food
- AnimeIowa
- ICON
- Denny meeting with art museum Thursday on this Fall’s art show, needs contact info for several artists yet.
- Cath brought up GOH planning for 2017, suggestion to set up a pre-planning committee of 3 to 5 people for all three conventions to help with GOHs and Hotel for 2+ years out.
- Other Projects
- Game Library — The Hobby Corner Friday, March 6th, 5-8 pm, Qin (sounds like chin)
- Book Group: Monday March 23rd, 6 pm, Coffeesmiths, Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover.
- Old Business
- Purchasing Video Game items for Mindbridge is complete.
- AnimeIowa trademark needs to be renewed before it expires
- Board budgeting retreat Sunday Mar 22nd at 1:30 PM at Denny’s
- New Business
- Paying ahead for AI 2018 and AI 2019.
- Jon and Tracie are going to look at square stand to see if it works with ipad mini, android tablet and android phone
- New/more Credit Card readers for the conventions (Jon will discuss): MB has 4 square readers which can be used with ipad, apple iphone and android phones, just need to pre-arrange with Jon M. which could be done for art show folks, etc.
- Jim Castlebury may not be able to be concom for Gamicon 2016 as he’ll have a 4 month old then. Congrats Jim!
- Next Meeting: April 1st, 2015 at ARC of Southeast Iowa 7 pm
- Skipping May MB meeting and doing a group Avengers movie trip instead at Cedar Rapids Galaxy 16 at 7ish pm on Friday May 1st
- June 3 meeting will be at Denny’s instead of in IC
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March 2015 Minutes