Mindbridge Membership Meeting Minutes May 21st, 2022
- Call to Order Minutes – reading waived
- Treasurer’s Report (Jon): Gain $94
- IT Officer (Adam): N/A
- Storage Manager (Pat): N/A
- Convention Reports
- AnimeIowa (July 22-24, 2022)
- Staff meeting June 11th, 2 pm Hybrid at the Coralville Hyatt and online. Second Meeting June 25th
- Lots of registrations
- Updated COVID policy
- ICON (Oct 14-16, 2022)
- Staff meeting Saturday June 11th, 10 am, online and in person Coralville Library
- Website redesign
- Promotional with Trek Fest and KCCK
- Marketing as soon website is finished
- Another garage sale in August
- Movie Night June 4th at Penticoff house 6pm
- Address 6914 Amhurst Dr SW Cedar Rapids
- Can fit 60-80 people
- Bring your own chair
- Donations welcome to support ICON
- Gamicon (Next Gamicon Feb 24-26, 2023)
- June 12th 6pm online and in person (location:TBD)
- Website update coming soon
- AnimeIowa (July 22-24, 2022)
- Other Projects
- Game Library – Michele: Working on updating spreadsheet
- Video Game Library (Adam): n/a
- Book Group: June 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City by K. J. Parker, Online, please talk to Cath or Michele for link if needed
- Old Business
- Tony Penticoff’s (current President) board position is up for election
- Trek Fest (June 25th)
- Parade will take place Sat June 25 at 10am
- Some interest was shown on having a float in the parade from ICON
- Proposed Amendment to the By-Laws, to remove Google Groups from section 10. Will be voted at the June 1st Mindbridge meeting.
- Amend:Article X — OTHER DOCUMENTS Section 2 — Location
All documents shall be available for download from http://groups.google.com/group/mindbridge-foundation and from the website https://mindbridge.org/ - Amend by deleting: “http://groups.google.com/group/mindbridge-foundation and from”
- Amend:Article X — OTHER DOCUMENTS Section 2 — Location
- New Business
- Tony Penticoff’s (current President) board position is up for election
- Voted Tony back into office for another 2 years
- Bookmark deployment into Little Libraries around IC
- No interest in having MB meetings in person
- Discussion about hearing Bids: Should there be a timeline for presenting a bid
- Concerns about how the Mindbridge is becoming smaller
- Video Game library has only one staff member
- Need to get more people to attend MB meetings at Conventions and outside of Conventions
- Ideas to get involvement
- Having a Jenga tournament at AI
- Trivia for Chocolate is very popular
- Clips of public domain or small video (less than 7 sec)
- Apples to Apples for the name of the movie
- Drawing for free membership to Convention
- Badge ribbon for MB Membership
- PC Name Tag $35 reg for image save for 2 years for $.22 per tag
- ICON in Reg cart
- PC Name Tag $35 reg for image save for 2 years for $.22 per tag
- Button maker for MB members
- Ideas to get involvement
- Need to have more in person events
- COVID moved us to online vs in person
- ICON would like to make a proposal for loan for signage from Mindbridge
- Tony Penticoff’s (current President) board position is up for election
- Next Meeting: Wed June 1st, 2022 online 7pm