In attendance were Larry Sanderson, Laura Jean Fish, David Schroth, Bill
Christ, Scott Raun, Dave Romm, Carol Kennedy, Mia McDavid, Geri Sullivan,
Susan Levy Haskell, Sharon Kahn, Glenn McDavid, Seth Breidbart.

Laura Jean handed out descriptions of what the chairs expected from the
department heads.

The meeting started around 1425.

There was no report from Treasury - the Treasurer was speechless (the
Treasurer insisted on pointing out that, despite his speechless condition,
budgets were distributed).

There was a short digression from the agenda into a discussion of the
banquet menus and prices provided by the hotel.  Consensus was that the
Easter brunch in convention space looked like the best bet.

Registration reported that they still needed to get the database, etc. from
the Minicon 38 head of registration.

There was another digression regarding toastmasters (history of), banquets,
and opening and closing ceremonies.

This segued into an entertaining discussion of possible ways of
assassinating the MnStf president.

Publications stated they needed to discuss things with the chairs offline.

Programming - the programming department had a small organizational meeting
(the Head of Programming met with herself, which is about the smallest
meeting I can conceive of), and created an initial spreadsheet.  They asked
Publications to provide them with the Program Book deadline.  They agreed
that they needed to schedule a first brainstorming meeting.  They then
scheduled the first brainstorming meeting for Sunday, August 3, 1400, at
Toad Hall.  The head indicated that they planned to make an extra effort to
get local pros and past programming participants involved in programming.

Business was suspended for an impromptu popcorn tasting.

Seth arrived, and said he'd suggested to the hotel that, for the banquet
function, they could provide their Easter brunch in function space.  The
hotel seemed to like the idea.  Seth would like the e-mail addresses changed
to something like hotel39@minicon.mnstf.org (from hotel@minicon.mnstf.org)
to reduce the amount of spam received.  This would require changing the web
page (as well as the e-mail addresses).  The gnu issue is to be just as
difficult in Minicon meetings as it is/was on natter.  The issue of
accessible rooms is being worked - the solution will need to be publicized.

Carol, as GoH Liaison Liaison, stated that once again, things were going
smoothly.  We don't currently have an answer on whether or not the Editor
GoH will be doing a chap book.

Geri pointed out that our Author GoH is something of a foodie, and we should
let him know that the Fan GoH's chap book will be food-related.

There was a brief discussion on having a volunteer check-off box on the
online registration (most of which I missed because I loaned my only pen to
people for a card signing).  Bill stated that the volunteer perks hadn't
gone as well as he'd hoped in Minicon 38.  There was some discussion of
acquiring blinking light thingies as a volunteer perk.

We'd like to/are planning to have a silent auction as a MnStf fund-raiser.

There was no progress on the Anime front.

Larry passed out copies of the budget.

There was a final silly discussion about using popcorn as an ice cream
topping.

The next meeting will be August 17, chez Fish.  Don't forget the MnStf
picnic on August 2!!!