4) Changing voting eligibility rules.
The Board perused the by-laws to see how it now stands.
It's determined that an official meeting (or whatever it's called in the
by-laws) are those on the 1st and 3rd of the month as announced in
EINBLATT plus the annual Pool Party and New Year's Eve Party. Currently
people are eligible to vote after attending 7 meetings in the previous
year, which can be official meetings or Minicon open meetings. Dean
suggested counting Minicon open meetings as 1/2 a meeting for purposes of
voting eligibility. Fred suggested counting Minicon open meetings as an
irrational number of meetings for purposes of voting eligibility. There
was then the question and discussion of what "has requested membership"
means. Apparently, it was historically meant to circumvent awkwardness
about little children and Snuffy Wuffy Poo. Dean resolved the question
neatly by noting that in the past we've considered submitting a ballot to
mean requesting membership.... Dean almost wants to say social meeting or
special meeting of the members (whatever that means--this is all my notes
say on this point). Geri argued against this (whatever it was). The Board
ultimately supported Geri's argument. More discussion.

Final decision, and new champion, by unanimous decision of the Board:

   Voting eligibility consists of attending 7 previously eligible
   meetings during the year, of which at least 3 must be official
   Minn-Stf meetings.