Meeting 921 March 24, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:03 24 people attended We did not establish a party jar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 920 were accepted Treasurer's report was that at meeting 920 we took in $31.00 in the regular jar & $5.35 in the party jar there was no VP The President had nothing fannish to report Announcements [tall] Kevin announced that the Hugo nominations came out and that both Cheryl and Chris were nominated; and also announced that Cheryl was currently on a plane flying here and should be here next week Fred announced that that the Worldcon hotels have had some cancellations, so check with them if you couldn't get in before Joni announced that season passes for Great America are on sale now for good prices in groups of 4+ Julie announced that she got to bartend at Bella Roma [a place she helped with an organ transplant before & that Contact is coming up on April 4-6 at NASA-Ames, check www.contactconference.com Mike announced that baseball season starts at 3am Andy announced that he did a bunch of updates on the Hugo recommendations LJ today I announced that I'll be away next week so someone will have to take meeting minutes [Glenn? ^_^] Reviews: Howeird reviewed the Psychotronic Film Festival at Foothill as he won a DVD there that was not a B movie - but was more of a C minus and worth full price except for the loud mouthed idiot behind him [tall] Kevin reviewed Norwescon as the Match Game went off well, although it only gelled an hour beforehand, that the performance of Girl Genius Radio Theatre was great and he saw part 3 of 'Revenge of the Weasel Queen', that the con is way too big for the function space, he enjoyed himself and felt it worth the trip; Dave G follow-on'd that he spent much of the con on an airplane and that the con was 'interesting' [and various other comments made] Joe reviewed trying to quit caffeine as it mostly sucks and is grim [evil] Kevin reviewed part 1 of 'The Colour of Magic' as beautiful and wonderful and definitely worth stealing and then buying Andy reviewed spending a part of the weekend converting from Windows to Linux as Ubuntu installs quickly & it's worth it to be free Julie reviewed 'Torchwood' like chocolate - dark and satisfying but boring at times John Hertz phoned in a greeting and reports that Lunacon also fails the badge test we then did auctions: birthday auctioned off Joe for $6.00 to Garth, cupcakes for $1.25, cookies for $1.00, books for $0.50 for [evil] Kevin and $0.50 & comics for $1.00 We adjourned at = 9:19 And the rumor of the week was: 'pina colada rumors of the week, now with rum.' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
