MeetingMinutes:2008-07

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OutWorlders, Inc.

July, 2008

The regular business meeting of OutWorlders was held on Sunday, 20 July 2008, at 2:00PM at Atlanta Diner. Michael Green, Dan Benge, Vandy Beth Glenn, Alan Siler, Jeff Smith, Robert Marshall, Scott Bobo, Ken Fernandez, Kris Harter, Ed Degruy and Chris Hensley were present. The meeting was called to order by President Degruy.

Officer Reports

President's Report

Nothing to Report

Vice President's Report

Nothing to report

Secretary's Report

Outwrite Bookstore has an area will they allow groups to place flyers.

Treasurer's Report

  • We have $2527.75
  • We received $211.55 from PRIDE sales and donations
  • We received $346.00 from Bucket collection
  • There is a $50 set aside for expenses for the historian
  • There is $100 set aside for expenses for PR/flyers
  • The treasurer is wondering if we should check on web-site hosting that might be less expensive.

Events Coordinator's Report

  • The event coordinator will focus on adding movies to the event reports. President Degruy said he would get a list together of movies that we may want to put on the event reports.
  • Game night will be held at Brent's house next month and will also be a pool party.
  • The Anniversary Party and game night were a little too much to be combined on one day
  • Star Trek Night will be cancelled or rescheduled this month
  • We need to schedule a fall picnic
  • Hyperdrive will be playing at Dragon*Con on Thursday night

Public Relations Coordinator's Report

  • We are still working on new ways to get the OutWorlders name out. Stage Door is willing to discuss using their space

Internet Coordinator's Report

  • Internet activity was similar too previous months

Historian's Report

  • Nothing to report

Special Interest Groups Reports

Readers Group

The readers group met on 13 July to discuss The Dust of Wonderland by Thomas Lee. Generally, we enjoyed the book. In particular, we liked that the author used the somewhat tired New Orleans setting in new and intriguing ways. We enjoyed the characterizations, and we liked that it wasn't another horror book about vampires. Next month, our read is The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault.

Writer's Group

The writer's group is still on hiatus.

Strategy gaming

Shannon & Shaunnen (sp?) held strategy gaming on July 19

New Business

Outlanta.con will be a one-day con in November and then will expand in May to a 2 or 3-day convention. Please see www.outlantacon.com or www.outlantacon.org.

Chris Hensley will be coordinating the Dragon*Con OutWorlders party. We discussed having non alcoholic options and offering some kind of glowing glasses as a fund-raiser.

Chris Hensley will also be coordinating the fan table, if you would like to volunteer some time to man the fan table, please let Chris know.

Old Business

PRIDE was very comfortable inside the Civic Center because of the Air Conditioning

We received 10 pages of sign ups

The meeting adjourned at 2:59 PM

Respectfully submitted by Chris Hensley, Secretary, Atlanta Outworlders.