Minn-stf Board meeting on September 24, 1999.

[Present]

[Board] Don Bailey, Dean Gahlon, Martin Shafer, Geri Sullivan, Polly Peterson

Linda Lounsbury
Mitch Pockrandt [recording secretary]
Joyce Scrivner
Margo Bratton


AGENDA

Pitney Bowes postage meter
Uncashed checks
Complaint by Joyce Scrivner

- Pitney Bowes postage meter

Pitney Bowes has not picked up their postage meter but is asking about it.

- Uncashed checks

Linda Lounsbury is concerned about the number of uncashed TOTU checks
outstanding. No action.

- Complaint by Joyce Scrivner

*        Joyce feels strongly that M34 Council has been secretive and
non-communicative with their volunteers, and Joyce feels that this was not
the first time she has seen M34 council treat the folks working Minicon
badly.  She would like to see a concerted effort made to improve the
relationships between council and volunteers, to make sure that volunteers
are treated respectfully.

*        We are losing at least a few volunteers because of this issue and
its lack of resolution.

*        There's a limit to how much "this is my own personal opinion" can
be used to justify poor interactions with someone that you also have an
official relationship with.

[ -hashing of individuals' perspectives and observations- ]

*        Email communications, even on a private list, are not the
equivalent of a private face-to-face communication.  The words are more
permanent than ephemeral conversations.

*        Dean: "We need to minimize the anguish of working on Minicon!"

*	Polly: We need to define a way of dealing with issues of Minicon.
Email is not a private communication medium.  It is just to easy to
cut-n-paste and reprint content.  An email list cannot be considered private
in practice, so we need to discuss and define the personal privacy issues of
dealing with conflicts and problems surrounding Minicon.

*	Joyce: "How does a convention get along with its volunteers?" is the
question that she is bringing to the board.

* Let's have a closed board meeting after [so] we can consider and sort
things out.

-        Next open board meeting: Monday, October 25, 7:30pm at Don & Margo's