Meeting notes: February 26th, 2009	[Feb. 26th, 2009|09:10 pm]

hoskie
Meeting called to order at 8:10 PM

President’s Report: Meeting called to order! Julia… where are you going? Julia, I will fucking cut you! There hasn’t been as many updates for the 40th this week as I would have liked because we’re still waiting on USG for various things. Everything on our end is in order, however. I have had a relatively pleasurable week, so I’m less inclined to kill people.

Vice President’s Report: I’m co-head of memberships for I-CON. I-CON is coming up in a little less than a month. You motherfuckers, I will kill you if you don’t clean.

Treasurer’s Report: I went to USG to-day to see if they have our cheques for the 40th. They didn’t have them, but they gave me a date to go back (Tuesday).

Secretary’s Report: Someone had suggested via the LJ various places we could post information about the 40th to bring in some stragglers who had yet to hear about it. I’ve sent out e-mails to editors of those sites to see if they’re interested in posting information for us. However those sites that were suggested weren’t things that we could actually easily contribute to, so no guarantees. Also, don’t forget RED DWARF MARATHON 11:30AM UNTIL WHENEVER. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26th. That’s to-morrow!

Librarian’s Report: I want to thank Orange for putting in some volunteer work. Also, Commuter Dave for donating a lot of books. I want to get all of the processing done before the move.

Ian: If you have cardboard boxes, we want them!

AC’s Report: Good news; I’m organising a run to go see “Watchmen.” Let me know if you want to go to Watchmen so you can give me money and I can secure tickets for everyone who wants to go. I was happy about how everyone shared during our Tekken playing this afternoon and I hope to do more like that in the future. Bad news; CLEAN YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.

Adib: We had a most EXCELLENT day to-day.

Ian: Jackie was kind enough to donate “Corpse Bride,” so be thankful to Jackie.

Howie: On Monday we’re going to be having a PS3 event. We’ll be playing games like Soul Calibur and LittleBigPlanet.

Historian’s Report (Ian): Em isn’t here, but I’m sure she would love to remind you all that she is looking for pictures of Forumite’s from across time (check last week’s meeting notes for more details). I don’t think anyone got back to us as to specifically where the timeline is. You can contact Em with stories of interest as well… basically anything that would be helpful to a presentation about 40 years of the Forum. There was once a great many comic fan in the Forum, we had enough to actually form Comics Voltron. Between the five of us, you’d be hard pressed to find a comics question that we couldn’t come up with an answer to. We would go and spend $500 - $700 on trades. We actually have a reasonably sized trades collection now. We will accept any trade donations (not single comics), but in terms of what we spend money on, we decided to keep things that are specifically genre, rather than just superhero comics, etc. We need people to be educated on how to buy trades, to continue this tradition. If you have any questions feel free to contact me, Orange, or Matt W.

Committees
Ian: I have spoken to a great many Forumite over the past few days who had no idea that a.) the 40th was happening, b.) coming up soon, and c.) Sunday, March 15th 4 – 8 PM. We’ve been posting the information everywhere, there’s only so much more we can do realistically. We never had the budget or the resources to send out invitations. TELL EACH OTHER ABOUT THE 40TH! Even if you think someone already knows, just make sure. If we want to pull this event off, it would be nice if people actually showed up. I beg you! … call, e-mail, use smoke signals… I don’t care. Just incase you didn’t get previous announcements about this THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THE 40th. If you want to leave us a donation, that would be fantastic. BUT YOU ARE IN NO WAY OBLIGATED TO SPEND MONEY.

I glare at the non-existent fundraising…

Jackie: I-CON is not on campus anymore but because Kim and I are awesome and useful, we’re probably going to get a table at I-CON so we can get rid of tribbles.

Old Business
Ian: Clean?

New Business
Howie: Clean?

Announcements
AA: Midterms SUCK ASS.

Phil: (something about Jerry Lewis from The Onion)

Adib: I think it was in Russia… cops found a three-year-old that was being raised by her dogs because her mother was a neglecting alcoholic.

JC: I went to a con last weekend and I watched a short film about time travel and Matt W. was credited in it. He was credited as “Nerd Consultant.”

Ian: This past week has been the first episode in a least a year of Dammit Mohinder that I did not actually have to say the iconic catchphrase “Dammit Mohinder!”

Meeting closed at 8:48 PM