Minnstf board minutes for March 15, 2008. Linda Lounsbury is vice president. Discussed vice president of data processing; no decision made. Sharon Kahn will be recording secretary. Jeff Schalles will continue as Rune editor. Laurel will continue as webmaster. She is considering moving our hosting to something in mnstf's name rather than having us continue to use her account. This will increase our cost from free to around $20/month. The board felt this was reasonable. We will owe ~$650 to insurance. Lisa is on it. She will continue being Speaker to Insurance. We think we have something like $30k in staggered certificates of deposit, but there is great uncertainty in exact amount, location, and where the statements are going. Carol doesn't remember getting statements about CDs. Irene should have contact info for AmEx where the CDs are believed to be. Dean, Scott and Kevin are pursuing. Kevin will let Carol know that we'd like her to file our ePostcard with the IRS. [This has been done.] Matt is authorized to have a PO box key so he can act as a backup to Carol for Minicon stuff. The board, however, wants to know a price before approving a purchase. [Carol later appeared with two keys, one of which she had recently found, so Matt took one. Carol guessed that the price for a replacement key would be ~$5.] The board approved Laurel to run Convivial 3 this fall. The board approved Bill's proposed picnic spot. Cost is ~$100. The board requested that the Minicon 44 chairs set up the pool party while negotiating next year's Minicon contract. We should let the hotel set the date for when they aren't doing anything else and can cut us a deal. Minicon chairs are authorized to spend $200 on the room; ask the board first if the amount is larger. Try to avoid Supercon (Jan 23-25; NOT on Superbowl weekend), but not at all costs. Progress is being made on the minnstf directory. Kevin made MnStF flyers. We like them. Minor suggestions were made. Kevin made Minn-Stf business cards. We like them. Minor suggestions were made. We will try to actually use , which currently points at Carol, but is as yet unadvertised. Kevin will discuss Gordon Dickson donations to Carol. We meant to donate last spring, but it's unclear whether it ever happened. The board will ruminate on how much Minicon 44 should try to make. The club needs $3-5k profit from Minicon to break even. However, it may be worth it to take a loss (i.e. a smaller Minicon profit) in order to drive up future Minicon membership. The next board meeting is at 2:30 pm on April 19th at Carol Kennedy's (during her MNstf meeting).