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August 3 BASFA minutes
Minutes of Meeting #1561
Monday, 3 August, 2020
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held online, in exile
Called to order at 20:06
Total of 20 log-ins
The minutes of meeting 1560 were accepted as: There
Treasurer. Same as last week.
Regular: $15,632.83 | Party: $230.58
Vice President: Nothing Fannish to report.
President: Not present.
No committees reporting.
No new business.
Announcements:
Howierd: Acquired a second cat.. Shelter named it Meow Meow, now named Heidi because she hides.
BosCon is having a virtual art show. Weekend after this one. One day. reconvenesff.com
JohnO: A Worldcon occurred. Business meeting was in 2 parts of 5 minutes each, with business pushed to next year. Chicago 2022 won site selection chicon.org. Hugos were given out. List online at thehugoawards.org . Lisa: Site selection 517 to 33 and 20 write-ins and 6 none. Saudis rescheduled their bid for later.
Craig: Nasfic Aug 21-23 for 3 days, no membership fee (donations welcome) columbus2020nasfic.org
Lisa: Baycon 2020 mini-con (ZOOM) info. on FaceBook. Last one was pleasant and fun. Relaxing. baycon.org/baycon-2020-zoom-mini-con-august-8th/
Reviews
WORLDCON =
Gayle = Had trouble joining non-webinars. Good quality recordings are available. Filk Room was good, well moderated, got to see her favorite. Lots of experts on panels, and no lines! Hugos was not a webinar, so didn’t see it. Closing panel discussed the Hugos MC, and why things happened. Happy she went. FantasyNet app has recorded events on phone.
Fred = The Hugos went too long. Silverberg & Martin went on reiterating well known history. A mess. They yammered on… Much outcry online. Rates it as: Not well thought out. Some BKG music on announcements distracted from the announcement.
JohnO = The Hugos suffered some technical issues were so basic that it drove him away. It was disjointed between live and recorded MC segments. Some attendees were dressed nicely. Did not attend anything else.
Lisa = Watched some Hugos. Found it very boring. Neil Gaiman’s acceptance speech was beautiful, and is available online. There’s a 110 minute condensed version. [DaveG: Shorter version here: youtube.com/watch?v=7yGPBIQvs0Y ]
Gerald = Did number of panels, all went ok except his own presentation (technical reasons). Able to get around well. Didn’t do Hugos, but he usually doesn’t. Heinlein society had virtual chili party - which was more like a mini-con. Needs a more user friendly interface for older folk. Carole was a major presence in the hiss & purr.
Cliff = You can still watch the Hugos watch.thefantasy.network/the-2020-hugo-awards-livestream/
Craig = Amazing experience. Technical problems didn’t ruin for him. Martin & the ConCom thought it would be useful to have the history during the Hugos - for local attendees? Still enjoying panels he couldn’t attend live.
Candy = Enjoyed the con. Went to some panels on ZOOM. Hugos were tedious – gave up after a half-hour. Bradford chaired a panel.
Todd = Odd shifting schedule without the sunlight. Watched masquerade, but it was horribly stuttering. Background music (same a Hugos) was overplaying some of the presentations. Impressive that they made it work with few problems.
= then other reviews =
Lisa: Last weekend the Mythopedic Society meeting used Jitsi Meet (open source) only 13 participants. It has its ups and downs. Working on being more like ZOOM, but has only US phone for dial-in. It’s useable. No webinar functions.
Gerald: SpaceX concluded the recent manned dragon mission. Everything went very well, until it got on the carrier… We have a working spaceship - the Endeavor.
Lisa: Astronauts were put on stretchers for after long space trips.
Craig: Watched closely. Boat situation at landing site with various authorities unable to control traffic. They will try better next time.
Howierd: Watched the official stream. Control room and talking heads for half hour before splash – boring! Could have had a stream from a chase boat. They released a good video afterwards.
JohnO: Disney+ wasn’t accessible, went to Netflix and watched Another Life starring Katee Sackhoff. Not the greatest, but fun ride with Katee kicking ass. Recommend. 11 total episodes.
Kennita: Katie is really interested in the future.
The Physicians of Vilnoc by Lois McMaster Bujold. Not the best of series (placeholder?) Reccommend if you’re reading the series. Available from the usual sources.
Cliff: Week-and-a-half ago, attended a LASFS ZOOM meeting as an author (for his contribution to Straight out of Deadwood). Lary Niven was attending as a LASFAn, so glad he didn’t screw up…
Lisa: Anyone can join the LASFS meetings, they are published on their FB page.
Rumor of the Week: The SpaceX Splashdown scored 10.0 (and a 6 from the Russian judge)
Adjourned at: 21:17
Monday, 3 August, 2020
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held online, in exile
Called to order at 20:06
Total of 20 log-ins
The minutes of meeting 1560 were accepted as: There
Treasurer. Same as last week.
Regular: $15,632.83 | Party: $230.58
Vice President: Nothing Fannish to report.
President: Not present.
No committees reporting.
No new business.
Announcements:
Howierd: Acquired a second cat.. Shelter named it Meow Meow, now named Heidi because she hides.
BosCon is having a virtual art show. Weekend after this one. One day. reconvenesff.com
JohnO: A Worldcon occurred. Business meeting was in 2 parts of 5 minutes each, with business pushed to next year. Chicago 2022 won site selection chicon.org. Hugos were given out. List online at thehugoawards.org . Lisa: Site selection 517 to 33 and 20 write-ins and 6 none. Saudis rescheduled their bid for later.
Craig: Nasfic Aug 21-23 for 3 days, no membership fee (donations welcome) columbus2020nasfic.org
Lisa: Baycon 2020 mini-con (ZOOM) info. on FaceBook. Last one was pleasant and fun. Relaxing. baycon.org/baycon-2020-zoom-mini-con-august-8th/
Reviews
WORLDCON =
Gayle = Had trouble joining non-webinars. Good quality recordings are available. Filk Room was good, well moderated, got to see her favorite. Lots of experts on panels, and no lines! Hugos was not a webinar, so didn’t see it. Closing panel discussed the Hugos MC, and why things happened. Happy she went. FantasyNet app has recorded events on phone.
Fred = The Hugos went too long. Silverberg & Martin went on reiterating well known history. A mess. They yammered on… Much outcry online. Rates it as: Not well thought out. Some BKG music on announcements distracted from the announcement.
JohnO = The Hugos suffered some technical issues were so basic that it drove him away. It was disjointed between live and recorded MC segments. Some attendees were dressed nicely. Did not attend anything else.
Lisa = Watched some Hugos. Found it very boring. Neil Gaiman’s acceptance speech was beautiful, and is available online. There’s a 110 minute condensed version. [DaveG: Shorter version here: youtube.com/watch?v=7yGPBIQvs0Y ]
Gerald = Did number of panels, all went ok except his own presentation (technical reasons). Able to get around well. Didn’t do Hugos, but he usually doesn’t. Heinlein society had virtual chili party - which was more like a mini-con. Needs a more user friendly interface for older folk. Carole was a major presence in the hiss & purr.
Cliff = You can still watch the Hugos watch.thefantasy.network/the-2020-hugo-awards-livestream/
Craig = Amazing experience. Technical problems didn’t ruin for him. Martin & the ConCom thought it would be useful to have the history during the Hugos - for local attendees? Still enjoying panels he couldn’t attend live.
Candy = Enjoyed the con. Went to some panels on ZOOM. Hugos were tedious – gave up after a half-hour. Bradford chaired a panel.
Todd = Odd shifting schedule without the sunlight. Watched masquerade, but it was horribly stuttering. Background music (same a Hugos) was overplaying some of the presentations. Impressive that they made it work with few problems.
= then other reviews =
Lisa: Last weekend the Mythopedic Society meeting used Jitsi Meet (open source) only 13 participants. It has its ups and downs. Working on being more like ZOOM, but has only US phone for dial-in. It’s useable. No webinar functions.
Gerald: SpaceX concluded the recent manned dragon mission. Everything went very well, until it got on the carrier… We have a working spaceship - the Endeavor.
Lisa: Astronauts were put on stretchers for after long space trips.
Craig: Watched closely. Boat situation at landing site with various authorities unable to control traffic. They will try better next time.
Howierd: Watched the official stream. Control room and talking heads for half hour before splash – boring! Could have had a stream from a chase boat. They released a good video afterwards.
JohnO: Disney+ wasn’t accessible, went to Netflix and watched Another Life starring Katee Sackhoff. Not the greatest, but fun ride with Katee kicking ass. Recommend. 11 total episodes.
Kennita: Katie is really interested in the future.
The Physicians of Vilnoc by Lois McMaster Bujold. Not the best of series (placeholder?) Reccommend if you’re reading the series. Available from the usual sources.
Cliff: Week-and-a-half ago, attended a LASFS ZOOM meeting as an author (for his contribution to Straight out of Deadwood). Lary Niven was attending as a LASFAn, so glad he didn’t screw up…
Lisa: Anyone can join the LASFS meetings, they are published on their FB page.
Rumor of the Week: The SpaceX Splashdown scored 10.0 (and a 6 from the Russian judge)
Adjourned at: 21:17