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024 0 TSFS Meeting at Jo Hogan'92s house, 10 July 2016

Jo Hogan, Margaret Hogan, Marc Drexler, Dave Swiger, Sue Cochrane, Sam Hogan, Dawn Stone, Fred Blonder, Man Of Mystery On Couch, Josh Kronengold

1300

Marketing report on ad exchanges and marketing stuff.

T-shirts. Small through 3XL; three colors of shirt; $7.17 per shirt to purchase. Make $1200-$2000 profit for selling at $15/$20. $7.50 for staff. We have a some 4/5/6XL tshirts from past.

Waiting list for fan tables. Girl Scouts coming with cookies. Put it on the web site.

Treasurer: $17420.01 in the bank. There may have been fraudulent transactions on the bank card in the past; Sam will be meeting with the bank to examine this. There may be restoration of about $2000 coming.

Video Gaming: tentative schedule in hand. Help wanted. No creeper awards this year. Not worth the effort.

Insurance and ASCAP license in process.

Alann lending tech equiment; Mike operating it.

Guest travel arrangements mostly in place. Budget OK. Marketing dipping into next year a bit.

Ramp or lift for stage a desirable thing. Maybe buy a lift. Talk to Balticon about possible joint action?

Hotel price going up $2000; hopefully it'92s not '93Radisson hates up'94. Lord Baltimore reached out to us but didn'92t get back to us.

Food was good for guests and stuff. Takes care of people who didn'92t have to panic about food.

Guest gifts; volunteer gifts. Do the mugs again. Laser etched glasses for guests.

Art show panels. Need to pick them up from Balticon to put in newer larger storage space.

Dealer'92s room sold out at 31 tables. And a big waiting list. Layout in Dan'92s hands.

Programming: Mythic and Board Gaming rooms swapping. Mild concern about noise complaints from programming. Work meeting after business meeting. Scheduling coming up soon. Video Gaming needs computers. Can we get away from CRT monitors? Need appropriate adapters.

LARP: Balticon had table LARP and later '93real'94 LARP. What do we want to do? The folks who ran LARP last time don'92t want to do it again.

ConCardia: what to focus on? Otto the spokeseel gets a card. Chessie singing? Repeat some things from two years ago? Pokemon GO card (catching a Pokemon at the hotel is worth a card). '93something in the lobby'94 Memorial cards?

Get a hotel room for a gender neutral bathroom and quiet space.

Inventory ribbons and such to see if we need more.

We have color coded bike locks and keys for self-securing doors.

Greg: get more people coming to TSFS meetings and participating in the business. Add some social gatherings '97 marketing to take lead.

Get a blurb from Chuck Tingle for the Turkey Award?

Next meeting: Saturday, 20 August, 1300. At Jo'92s house.

2017: Hotel Liaison? Dawn? Still rolling the die.
Need new dealer coordinator.
GoH: Sherri Tepper (sp?); Katherine Kurtz? Pamela Sargent
names for artists and maybe Frenchie and the Punks for music
Cheshire Moon; Three Fifths; Ada Palmer; Emma Bull;

Dawn willing to be next Hotel Liaison, but caveat that things could change.

Meeting done 1536

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