Meeting 1093 July 11, 2011 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 Fwy), Sunnyvale Began approximately 8:05 p.m. as we played around on Coco's new free wifi Secretary and Vice President absent Adrienne Foster, acting minute taker 23 people attended We established a party jar. The reading of the minutes for meeting 1090 were given up on by a consensus. Minutes for meeting 1092 were accepted as "Olive your Westercons are belong to us." Treasurer reported that at the last meeting we took $29.71 in the regular jar and $21.75 in the party. At the special edition meeting held at 6 p.m. at Westercon 64, BASFA collected $21.00 to be donated to Japanese earthquake relief. No one offered a proxy VP report. President had nothing fannish to report. The Sports Committee did not remind us again that September 4 is Star Wars night at AT&T Park. Announcements: Kevin R. announced that Renovation is coming up and it still has a few rooms in its block at the Peppermill available. He already has 10 entries preregistered for the masquerade. Kevin S. added on that the Atlantis is offering some bargain rates post-con. Kevin & Andy ask everyone to join them for Westercon 66, which they will be chairing. They have been spending the last week setting up their internet presence. The convention's main URL is http://www.westercon66.org, but it also has accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and I think Andy said something about Yahoo and Google. MO does not currently have any internet access, so anyone trying to contact her should do it by phone. Jo announced he will be redesigning an official SMOF website. Ed said Art Crum just did Genesis at the San Jose Museum of Modern Art and has announced a graphic story competition. Spring said Vintacon will be held in Lodi this October. More details will be announced later. Reviews: After a recent visit to Reno, Kevin S.—always with SMOFfing on the mind—scoped the hotels and believes it would be an excellent location for a Westercon. However, he believes a recent redecorating at the Silver Legacy does not fit in with the hotel's theme. He added that chairing the business meeting at Westercon 64 was a remarkable experience. He prepared for it the night before with Ben Yallow. Kevin S. plans on posting the video record of the meeting soon. I reviewed one the Hugo-nominated novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, as absorbing. N.K. Jemison has a strong main character with plenty of interesting conflict. If I had to choose between the two I've read so far, this would be the one. I still have three more nominations to read. I also saw the season opener of Torchwood. When I called to add Starz to my U-verse package, the sales rep said I should have access within a half hour. I told him that was fine, as long as I had it in time to see Torchwood. He said, "Is that what it is? I've already had three other calls to start Starz this afternoon. That show is making them money." I enjoyed the episode, but it's still a little too early to say whether it was worth ordering Starz. Valerie followed on that she believes it will definitely attract fans. Andy had a lot of fun watching it and looks forward to seeing how it turns out. Jo had to deal with some unappreciated politics in his racing circles [I presumed he's talking about motorcycles] and is temporarily gafiating from that activity for a year to avoid dealing with the current event organizers. He also added that his ereader, eePad, has a fantastic battery life and is incredibly happy with it. We did auctions. Rumor of the Week: "Two years of olive puns to go." We adjourned at 9:48 p.m.
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