Meeting Day

[kevin_standlee]

This morning at 11 AM was the last SFSFC Board of Directors meeting to which I'll be able to walk at the Centerville Train Station meeting room. I got over there early, just after 10 AM, because I was responsible for setting up the computer, speakers, and microphones for our Skype-based conference call. The technical aspects went quite smoothly, although we did have to go audio-only as there just isn't quite enough bandwidth to do video-conferencing there. However, before the bandwidth bogged us down, we all got a chance to wave at Cheryl Morgan, joining us from London.

SFSFC met for about three hours, going through all of its committees and discussing future plans. I'll have more to say about those plans later once they mature a bit and once the directors have a chance to review the minutes and confirm that what I wrote down was what they meant.

A few mechanical things: we changed the date of our July meeting to July 21 to accommodate two directors (including me), and we expanded our internal definition of "San Francisco Bay Area" to include adjacent counties where we either have held board meetings or expect to possibly meet in the future. Those changes are all up on the SFSFC web site

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Sacramento and Solano, but not Yolo? I've been to a convention in Yolo County. I bet lisa_marli remembers that convention too.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

The expansion added Santa Cruz and Sacramento counties to the existing nine that were already listed. We could have added Yolo, but didn't bother, since Sacramento is adjacent to Contra Costa and Solano Counties already. We might go put it in later for nagging consistency purposes, but there was no real need right now. (An SFSFC director lives in Santa Cruz County, and we project the possibility (not high probability) of holding a special meeting of the Board in Sacramento county in 2013, so we were just preventing ourselves from being backed into a parliamentary corner.)

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I was thinking less of meetings than of holding a convention there, unlikely as it is, since the geographic area is also designated as the one SFSFC would support events in.

Come to think of it, besides Yolo I've also attended sf conventions in Mendocino and Monterey counties, as well as in Sacramento, Napa, Sonoma, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara, and an sf/f non-convention public event in Solano. But I have to draw a blank on Marin and Santa Cruz. Tell Glenn to get on the ball.

[regfoghorn.livejournal.com]

Wow. I remember that logo from the '93 con. I still have a bunch of stuff from it someplace in the files, and an insulated mug up in a cabinet. I wonder what Bobbi is up to these days.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

After ConFrancisco in 1993, the corporation adopted the convention's logo as that of the corporation. We actually have an honest-to-goodness embosser with the corporate seal. I applied it to all of the certificates we issued to the 2002 Hugo Award nominees for ConJose.

[regfoghorn.livejournal.com]

Cool. I was in charge of City Tours, working for a lady named Bobbi something. It was a blast to be on the committee - I knew Tom W. from OCH, which is how I got involved. David Clark had me on his list of fans in the Bay Area for several years.

If I can find the old ConFrancisco in-progress newsletters/publications, should I send them to the corporate PO Box for the archives? I don't have all of them.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

That wold probably been Bobbi Armbruster, as I recall.

Thank you for having run City Tours. You're one of the people who made the Worldcon experience better for the members, and I'm grateful for it.

Regarding newsletters: Do you mean The Never-Ending Meeting? I'm pretty sure we have a complete run of them, so I don't think we need another. (And the corporate storage locker is overloaded, I'm told.)