Minnstf board meeting Feb 24, 2019 at Scott and Irene Raun's house. Attending board members: Matt Strait (by Jitsi), Hershey Harris, Anna Dudda, Scott Raun. Others attending: Terry Hughes, Don Stremski, Sharla Stremski, Irene Raun. == Terry Hughes has an item == Terry has been getting lots of requests to be dealers for M54. He described his strategy for increasing the diversity of the types of dealers while also keeping lots of authors and booksellers. == Potential Minicon 55 Chairs == Don and Sharla have just sent us their proposal. We read it. It is attached to these minutes. It is for M55 and M56. Matt proposes approving them to be chairs for just M55 now, but approving them to sign a 2-year hotel contract. The M56 chairs (who may well also be Don+Sharla) will be bound by that. All approve! == Approve Minicon 54 harassment policy == It was submitted to the board over the last week: Minicon 54 Code of Conduct Principles Minn-stf acknowledges that interpersonal relationships in social settings are complex. Not everyone likes everyone else, and not everyone agrees with everyone else. Disagreements, friction, and vigorous debate are expected. However, interactions that become hostile or coercive do not have any part in a healthy social environment and Mnstf commits to addressing problem behaviors. Harassment is difficult to define, and attempts at an exact definition are subject to rules-lawyering, so we won't attempt to do that. However, repeated unwelcome behaviors are mostly likely to be construed as harassment. If someone asks you not to touch them, not to talk to them, or not to refer to them in a way that they find objectionable, and you persist in doing so, you may be harassing them. Actions that are sufficiently egregious (assault, truly hateful language, and comparable actions) fall under this policy, even if only one occurrence has been noted. In the end, harassment is judged primarily by the person who feels harassed, and actions are more important than intent. Action If you tell someone to stop something you see as harassing behavior and they don't, you may speak to the Code of Conduct committee, or ask any concom member how to contact someone with the Code of Conduct committee. If you don't feel comfortable telling someone to stop harassing behaviour, you may also tell us. We want to make sure everyone is heard so that together we can make Minicon a healthy, fun, enjoyable experience for everyone. Reporting We will publish a procedure for reporting violations of this code, whether or not action is desired. This information will be readily available to the membership of Minicon 54. It is very similar to the M53 policy. The only changes are to change "53" to "54" and to explain in a little more detail how to contact us. Approved! == More business from Terry == His real life duties have increased, and he is resigning as Quartermaster as soon as Minicon 54 is over. We thank Terry for his excellent service. == Benevity == Scott reports that Benevity is apparently a 3rd party aggregator for corporate-sponsored charitable contributions. We got a check for $47.85 from them. == Next meeting == It will be of the new board at the March 16 voting meeting.