Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:55:52 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com> wrote:

> For the 1st Friday minutes, this paragraph appears:
> ---
> Sam asked how many of the 29 who already bought memberships
> were on Capclave '04's committee. She replied \223at least 3\224
> including herself. She said she approved of the amended motion.
> ---

> The "she" seems to refer to Lee Gilliland, but it's a bit unclear.

Oops.  Actually, it was Colleen.  Fixed.

> And for 3rd Friday minutes, thsi paragraph appears:
> ---
> SMOFCON '04: Bob said we're awaiting word from Peggy Rae.
> He also said \223probably around $2000\224.
> ---

> Something must be missing, because this doesn't read very
> well.  I don't know what the money refers to.  Owed?

I don't know either.  I asked Bob by email on Saturday, but have
gotten no reply.  I'll leave it as it is until I get one.

I definitely didn't have "\223" or "\224" in the minutes.  I'm
Microsoft-free so there's no way that Microsoft crud can sneak in.

> And also:
> ---
> Sam moved that Ernest buy Jack Chalker a card, which we
> will all sign at the next meeting. The motioned passed.
> ---

> It should be perhaps noted that we'll reimburse Ernest and
> we weren't asking him to get the card with his own money.

Fixed.  Thanks.

Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>> CAPCLAVE PRESENT:

> Is it Mark or Mike?

Oops.  Fixed.  I don't know why I keep doing that.  Maybe I should do
in the typed minutes as I do in the handwritten minutes and just call
him MJW.

>> Larry had accepted a job offer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and
>> will be moving out of the area.

> Oh dear, he'll be missed.

WSFA's loss is NESFA's gain.

> From comments on the BWSMOFs list it seems that WSFA did once have a
> logo but I haven't heard anything about what it was.

I don't know that we've ever had an official logo.  We've long had
many unofficial ones.

> ... just think that with better tools someone could now fix the
> typeface . . . and can we get rid of the mauve?  Please?

Adrienne agreed to find something better than "E4B0FF", which
presumably means mauve, and email it to me.  When she does, I'll try
the new color on the mirror site, and ask people which color they
prefer.  As you know, I have a non-graphical account, so colors,
typefaces, and logos are all invisible to me.  I just see the text.

The WSFA website, like the WSFA Journal, is a group effort.  The way
I do things has certain strengths.  For instance I'm easily able to
globally replace "E4B0FF" with any other six digit hex number in
the 1136 places it appears on our website.  But it also has certain
weaknesses.  For instance I would have no way of knowing what any such
change would look like to the rest of you, unless one of you tells me.

> I'm now going to go back to bed, and have missed seeing you all -

I hope you -- and the streets and sidewalks -- will have recovered in
time for First Friday.

Speaking of "group effort," the deadline for February's WSFA Journal
is this Friday.  Other than a rather non-stfnal contribution from
Alexis, and a LoC from a non-WSFAn, I haven't received *anything*
so far this month.

I'm working on getting issue #84, dated December 1974, online, and
there are more book reviews in that one issue than in the past two
years of current WSFA Journals.

Plus, after half a year of asking, I've still only gotten *one*
fannish autobiography.  Remember, it doesn't have to be long.
One or two paragraphs is fine.