Board meeting 2010 05 05, 7:30 pm at Scott Raun's house

Whole board (Matt Strait, Betsy Lundsten, Dean Gahlon, Scott Raun, Seven
Anderson) in attendence, plus Dorf [David Waldorf], Rebecca Strait, Irene
Raun.

Minneapolis in 2073 report.  $100 of its money is now stored in the main
Minnstf bank account.  This was prompted by the fact that the bid received a
real cashable check and the easiest thing by far for Matt do do was to
deposit it.  Carol asked if she needs to track it.  Matt told her no because
if it ever got significant, he'd open a separate account.

Seven is taking a list of board actions from the last year to report to the
membership in an Einblatt.

501c3 status: Scott received words from Matt to put on form.  He thinks that
they are good.  No other progress.  Scott does not need input from the rest
of the board at this time.

Bylaws amendment regarding spending some money as long as we have more than
we can realistically lose in a year in a Minicon disaster.  Matt brought
wording previous sent out to board e-mail list.  As a change to this, for the
last sub-paragraph, the board would like:

"The board of directions may, at its discretion, choose financial targets
other than what the above rules would dictate."

The board is happy with the amendment and intends to almost certainly pass
it, but would like to sleep on it until the next meeting.  The proposed
bylaws are at:

http://www.mnstf.org/records/documents/MNstf-bylaws-prop-May-2010.html

Board meeting scheduling.  Next meeting probably at 7pm on June 4 at
Dreampark.  To be confirmed when Seven knows her schedule.

Seven asks if Minnstf is willing to co-sponsor the Minicon CONvergence party
with Minicon.  Matt is concerned that this is just an accounting trick since
it's all the same pot of money in the end.  Seven counters that if Minnstf
co-sponsored, she would be sure to push Minn-stf as well as Minicon.  The
rest of the board asks that at the least for this proposal the board needs to
hear how much money has been authorized by Minicon and how much more is asked
for Minnstf to pitch in.

Seven reports that a new Dreamhost account has been created.

Meeting adjourned at 8:16pm.