<div dir="ltr"> <div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt">Below is the minutes from the meeting on Sunday, October 18th. If you want in text or word, please let me know. </div><div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"> </div><div style="margin:0in 0in 10pt">In attendance: Eric A, Tim K, Victor B, John P, Jason D, Jim S, Shane S, Mei, Paul T, David H, Mike J </div> . Lunch – It was early, it was good, it was noodly. All thanks to FSM. I. Announcements – Apparently, John has a basement. II. This Year A. Gateway 2015 – 2100 official attendance, our largest ever (it seems like I say that every time), even larger than Orccon. Miniatures was filled constantly and Lower Lobby was utilized in a way to relieve a lot of pressure. B. Overall – Averaged just under 2000 per con (missed by 10 people total). Need to make sure everyone knows that you need a badge even in Open Gaming if you are playing a game. Need to make signage to that effect and make sure it is in the con book. C. Goals from last year 1. 10 percent increase per con – Across the board. Good work all. 2. Expand Game Library to RPGs – Dave has a box of books and is will add them to the inventory. 3. Utilize Bel Aire and space in general better – Done and done. And to think, no one wanted Bel Aire. 4. Suggestion Boxes – Done, other than the fact the Open Gamers looted the pencils and sheets, they were successful. III. Next Year A. Goals – Complete Library inventory, 10% increase in attendance (weather permitting, see E), utilize the Lower Lobby Foyer (need some big-ass fans to help with air flow), Lower Lobby Foyer Lighting, better signage, fix map in con book. Most of these are in process. B. Special Guests – Working on it, Honestly. C. Marketing – Mei will get us various deadlines, and what she needs from department heads doesn’t change, so get her newsworthy items to pimp us properly. D. Budgets – We have room, so if you need stuff let Eric know. Video Games is going to get a projector repaired to use for tournaments. If you still need the large rolling containers please let us know. We are looking at standardizing printers, and Jim has a possible lead on that. Chris Carlson is investigating pop-ups. E. El Niño – Spanish for The Nino, the weather pattern has hurt attendance in the past. Eric will work with the hotel to have extra parking, but park on the upper levels just in case. Paul will look into the building behind the Hilton. F. Web Site changes – Link to hotel rates should be up by now. Long term – Nuke the site from orbit, the only way to be sure. Short term- Make badge list editable, fix Paypal, adding default rooms (HQs in the case of RPGs), adding Adventures League and Pathfinder searchable subsets of RPGs, Add Party Games. G. WonderCon – Need GMs to run a cross section of events to show what Strategicon offers. Contact Mei for details. H. Business Cards – Eric said new card design before the end of the month, but that was before all the kings horses and all the kings men need to put Eric back together again. Please let Eric know if you need cards. I. Party Games – As a subset of RPGs under Jim Sandoval, William Hilstrom will supervise the Party Games (e.g. Werewolf, 2 Rooms and a Boom, Cash and Guns) IV. The Future and Beyond A. At Hilton until 2020 — in theory. Currently under contract, but we have a possible out at 2018. Better use of space means we can likely make this work that long. B. Moving? – Fact: If we continue to grow we will need to move. Options are being explored. V. Q&A Tim will contact the Escort guy (not like that, pervs). Jim is making new Suggestion forms, and we are thinking of adding boxes in Library and Board Games, and not leaving the one in open gaming out overnight. Suggestion to get phone numbers from folks who borrow from the library on Sunday so that their crappy planning doesn’t become our crisis. </div>