First Friday Minutes: June 5, 2020

First Friday Minutes: June 5, 2020 – Zoom

Attending:
Eli, Cait, Karen, Arlen, Richard Karsh, Erin, Kent, Lisa, Mem, Morland, Joe, Jack, Rosa, Sheila, Ted, Keith, Cary, Wes, Cyndi, Marcus

Presiding:
Eli- 20:12

President’s Report:
NTR

Vice President’s Report: Morland-NTR

Secretary’s Report: Jack- Minutes of previous Meeting posted to Facebook. And posted to Website!

Social Media Secretary’s Report: Robin-NTR

Treasurer’s Report: Lisa – We have money. $xxx

Trustees Report:
NTR

Book Committee: NTR

Photo Committee:
NTR

Refreshments Committee:
Self-supplied

COSine 2021:

    Committee consensus is to cancel/postpone COSine2021 due to dinosaur invasion/pandemic and reset for 2022. This has been run by the hotel, no penalties.
    Check with GOH and see if they are available in 2022
    Will check in with pre-regs to see if they want refunds.


Old Business:

    No 4th of July picnic this year. If we think the second wave is over let’s discuss in August.
    See what sort of interest there is in shared virtual movie night. Maybe shared Netflix or Discord. There is interest, need to experiment with applications. Eli will investigate.

New Business:No New Business

Announcements:

    Lunar eclipse only visible in Europe
    American launched from America
    Largest oil spill in history in the Arctic
    Two Dresdens being released this year

Next Meeting: July 3, 2020. Zoom
Book: The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey

    August: The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling
    September: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
    October: Decision at Doona by Anne McCaffrey
    November: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
    December: Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson
    January: The Martian by Andy Weir

Adjourn: 20:45

Book Discussion:
Book: Dragon’s Blood by Jane Yolen

    Three sets of double letters is disconcerting
    Bondy book
    Overwhelming amount of bondage
    The latest Heinlein was not published – for a reason.
    Natural History of Dragons
    New Bujold novella is quite good.
    Hugo Packet is available – They sent the link
    Rosa has spotted dick – within reach.
    Roa is Norwegian
    Marzipan is explosives