Mindbridge Meeting Minutes Jan 8th, 2025
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- Treasurer’s Report (Jon): Up 13k
- IT Officer (Tony): No updates
- Storage Manager (Carhoff Alliance): Working to coordinate with other members in January to review and update.
- Convention Reports-All conventions are looking for additional help.
- Gamicon (Feb 28-March 2nd, 2025) Website Here
- 2026 bid is due in December
- We will be having 2 GM parties this year. For those unfamiliar they are a small gathering where you can show up and ask questions in person that you may have in regards to event submissions, along with having paper copies of event submissions if you’d rather fill it out that way and have the event coordinator enter them. Also we play some games and socialize. We have one up in the Cedar Rapids area and another down in IC so feel free to hit up the closer on, or if you really want you can attend both.
- First one will be on Saturday January 11th, from 1 PM to 5 PM at the Hiawatha Public Library (150 W Willman St, Hiawatha IA).
- Second will be on Sunday January 12th, from Noon to 5 PM at Hobby Corner ( 1606 Sycamore St, Iowa City, IA). There will also be a Gamicon meeting during the last hour of this one so if you have interest in seeing what that looks like or want to see how else you can help stick around for that.
- Also a reminder that if you want to make sure your events show up in the program guide they will need to be submitted by January 15th. You will still be able to submit events after that but they will only be viewable on the website or on the sign up sheets at the con.
- Thursday hotel room block is sold out.
- Submit any events due soon
- Now have a map of the layout
- If interested in volunteering, staff or have other questions contact: info@gamicon.org
- AnimeIowa (July 24th – 27th, 2025) Website Here
- Next staff meeting is on Sat Jan 11th from 2-4pm at the Hyatt in Coralville
- Voting for charity auction is done and will be announced at the staff Meeting
- If interested in volunteering, staff or have other questions contact: execs@animeiowa.com
- ICON (ICON50-2026) Website Here
- Next Staff meeting Sat Jan 25th,2025 Room E at 2pm at the IC Public Library
- If interested in staff or have other questions contact: concom@iowa-icon.com
- If interested in Volunteering contact: volunteering@iowa-icon.com
- Gamicon (Feb 28-March 2nd, 2025) Website Here
- Other Projects
- Game Library-Michele: n/a
- Video Game Library: Need assistance with running Video Game Library please contact Adam
- TrekFest- Jenny Carhoff
- June 26th-28th, 2025
- Website Here
- If interested please contact Jenny at mommayaya911@gmail.com
- Book Group:
- Thurs Jan 9th we will be discussing Bear and Nightingale by Katherine Arden at Panera on Edgewood Rd in Cedar Rapids at 6pm.
- Thurs Feb 13th we will be discussing will be a general discussion covering the books that we have read and those we would like to read.
- Anybody wanting to become Mindbridge Members
- John Anderson has been voted in as member
- Old Business
- If there are any problems or questions address them to Tony from now until Feb 5th meeting Email mindbridge-bod@googlegroups.com
- Gamicon bid
- New Business
- ICON 49.5 bid was reviewed and will be voted on
- Robin is stepping down as a board member elections will happen at the Feb Meeting
- Treasurers Retreat will be on Sat March 15th at 1-4pm online and in person at the Penticoff House.
- Gamicon is listed in Iowa Starting Line article on 27 Iowa festivals! Here
Next meeting will be Wed Feb 5th,2025 @ 7pm online and in person at the ARC in Iowa City ARC 2401 Towncrest Dr 2401 Iowa City, IA. Across the street from the church of the Nazarene, two blocks from the old building.