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basfaMinutes of Meeting #1564
Monday, August 24, 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 8 pm
20 various beings attended
The minutes of meeting 1563 were accepted as 'well smoked'
the Treasurer was not present, but our totals are =
regular total is $15,632.83; party total is $230.58
the VP had nothing fannish to report
the President had nothing fannish to report
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Howeird announced that there is an excellent app out now from the EPA called 'air now' available from airnow.gov that shows your air quality level, Rick followed, saying there is another similar app at https://www.purpleair.com/map
Valerie announced that there are online cons coming up =
Next sat https://www.bubonicon.com/
https://www.futureconsf.com/ Sept 17
Sept 26-27 https://festival.galactic.one/ (website is down)
Oct 2-4 https://futuricon.eu/ (Eurocon 2020 online)
C’monfluence (10/2-10/4) online from Pittsburgh. http://confluence-sff.org/
Oct 10-11 https://2020.octocon.com
MultiverseCon Oct 16-18, online from Atlanta. https://www.multiversecon.org/
Capclave October 17-18 $10
https://theconvention.fiyahlitmag.com/ Oct 17-18
Oct 23-25 https://milehicon.org/
https://siliconsj.com/
https://philcon.org/
Oct 29 World Fantasy https://www.wfc2020.org/
And San Diego comic-con still has all its panels free on youtube.
Aatheus announced that the Osiris-Rex spacecraft test was successful & they will do their actual sample collection from asteroid Bennu in October
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/second-rehearsal-puts-osiris-rex-on-path-to-sample-collection
REVIEWS:
Lisa reviewed going to the virtual Nasfic as they did a very interesting job of using Zoom and Vimeo & Discord, but there were problems with the feed & getting questions in, but it was mostly good, except it was working on East Coast time & the panels she DID see were excellent - & Valerie were on some of those panels - she regrets not being able to go to an actual Dealers Room to spend her money & that online doesn't take the place of being there
There were follow-ons = Valerie reviewed Nasfic as she was on 7 panels and was virtually running around like crazy & she enjoyed it & it was a fun con
Marcia liked the Vimeo interface & the best closed-captioning she has ever seen
Craig commented that some connection issues could be a bandwidth issue
John O reviewed 'Ice Age - Collision Course' as very silly & mostly about the characters interacting - not worth full price, but worth picking up online to kill an hour & a half
Howeird reviewed season one of 'Hanna' on Amazon as way, way more violent than it needs to be & that it now has a season 2 out
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6932244/?ref_=hm_stp_pvs_piv_tt_18
Fred reviewed an article as having some good ideas & worth checking out
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/08/20/time-for-all-our-virtual-meeting-tools-to-interoperate/#62ee905c366c
Craig & Marcia reviewed episode one of 'Businessmen versus Aliens' as kind of funny & an interesting premise & they will look for episode 2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5989844/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Dave reviewed 'Lovecraft Country' on HBO as an interesting take on racism in the 1950s & very well done & he is looking forward to episode 2
we adjourned at 8:37 pm
Rumor of the week was = 'Who requested that the Bay Area be a smoking section?'
Monday, August 24, 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 8 pm
20 various beings attended
The minutes of meeting 1563 were accepted as 'well smoked'
the Treasurer was not present, but our totals are =
regular total is $15,632.83; party total is $230.58
the VP had nothing fannish to report
the President had nothing fannish to report
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Howeird announced that there is an excellent app out now from the EPA called 'air now' available from airnow.gov that shows your air quality level, Rick followed, saying there is another similar app at https://www.purpleair.com/map
Valerie announced that there are online cons coming up =
Next sat https://www.bubonicon.com/
https://www.futureconsf.com/ Sept 17
Sept 26-27 https://festival.galactic.one/ (website is down)
Oct 2-4 https://futuricon.eu/ (Eurocon 2020 online)
C’monfluence (10/2-10/4) online from Pittsburgh. http://confluence-sff.org/
Oct 10-11 https://2020.octocon.com
MultiverseCon Oct 16-18, online from Atlanta. https://www.multiversecon.org/
Capclave October 17-18 $10
https://theconvention.fiyahlitmag.com/ Oct 17-18
Oct 23-25 https://milehicon.org/
https://siliconsj.com/
https://philcon.org/
Oct 29 World Fantasy https://www.wfc2020.org/
And San Diego comic-con still has all its panels free on youtube.
Aatheus announced that the Osiris-Rex spacecraft test was successful & they will do their actual sample collection from asteroid Bennu in October
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/second-rehearsal-puts-osiris-rex-on-path-to-sample-collection
REVIEWS:
Lisa reviewed going to the virtual Nasfic as they did a very interesting job of using Zoom and Vimeo & Discord, but there were problems with the feed & getting questions in, but it was mostly good, except it was working on East Coast time & the panels she DID see were excellent - & Valerie were on some of those panels - she regrets not being able to go to an actual Dealers Room to spend her money & that online doesn't take the place of being there
There were follow-ons = Valerie reviewed Nasfic as she was on 7 panels and was virtually running around like crazy & she enjoyed it & it was a fun con
Marcia liked the Vimeo interface & the best closed-captioning she has ever seen
Craig commented that some connection issues could be a bandwidth issue
John O reviewed 'Ice Age - Collision Course' as very silly & mostly about the characters interacting - not worth full price, but worth picking up online to kill an hour & a half
Howeird reviewed season one of 'Hanna' on Amazon as way, way more violent than it needs to be & that it now has a season 2 out
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6932244/?ref_=hm_stp_pvs_piv_tt_18
Fred reviewed an article as having some good ideas & worth checking out
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/08/20/time-for-all-our-virtual-meeting-tools-to-interoperate/#62ee905c366c
Craig & Marcia reviewed episode one of 'Businessmen versus Aliens' as kind of funny & an interesting premise & they will look for episode 2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5989844/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Dave reviewed 'Lovecraft Country' on HBO as an interesting take on racism in the 1950s & very well done & he is looking forward to episode 2
we adjourned at 8:37 pm
Rumor of the week was = 'Who requested that the Bay Area be a smoking section?'
