Mentor

The Newsletter of Arisia, Incorporated — Number 144, Feb 2006

Notices

This month’s meeting at the home of Cris Shuldiner, Feb 25 at 2 pm. Directions are on the back page.


Minutes of the January Meeting

Meeting called to order January 15th at 4:20 pm at the Park Plaza Hotel. Present: Rikkibeth Stein, Mark Weinstock, Julia Suggs, Conor Walsh, Susan Mozzicato, Claudia Mastroianni, Bridget Boyle, Pam Ochs, Peter Thomas, Lisa Adler-Golden, TomCoveny, Walter Kahn, Elka Davidoff, September Isdell, Noel Rosenbergy, Lisa Hertel, Rick Kovalchik, Ben Levy, Joel Herda, Rachel Silber, Nicholas Shectman, Alex Latzko, Tracy Gangwer

Jeanne Kahn to Walter Kahn, Skip Morris to Lisa Hertel, Bridget Boyle to Susan Mozzicato.

Minutes accepted from previous meeting.

There was a great convention. Thanks to everyone who made it go. Great job, Phi!

There are no current grant requests.

We will give a complete report after the con money is counted.

Mail was picked up at the mailbox through Thursday evening before con.

No eboard meetings beyond what was published in the Jan. Mentor.

The con is now over, we had approximately 2400 attendees. Thanks to everyone. It was a great con!

Money is being counted now.

Please come to the debrief meeting at MIT building 66, 4 pm Sunday January 29th. In the process of talking to guests of honor. Talking to staff has begun.

Corporate Sales : We have collected money from Offworld Designs. A full report will follow.

Long Range Planning: The current question before us is what happens if Arisia increases to 2700 or drops to 1700. A meeting date will follow soon. What constrains our current membership cap?

Relaxacon: making progress. If we do have a relaxacon, we have been discussing how it would work.  We will make it not conflict with other cons.

No other committee reports.

Alex has finally tracked down paperwork from '04 con treasurer, and will be doing forensic accounting with Ben


MSP - $100 donation to ICG with our thanks to Carl for his help on the souvenir book.

MSP by acclamation: Thanks to Phi for services as con chair.

Feb meeting at Cris Shuldiner’s residence in Pelham NH 2 pm. (Directions and details will be printed in Mentor.)

March 12 2 pm at MIT – note, not the 19th as that is Lunacon.

Tues Apr 25, at Kovalchik/Mozzicato residence; byo food at 7 pm, and meeting will start at 7:30

Please come help load the truck NOW.

Adjourn 4:50.

Eboard Meeting Minutes

Eboard meeting January 25 at storage.

Present: Rick, Lisa, Ben, Rachel, Cris, Phi, Joel

Call to order approx 8:20

Extra coffee from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters: Rick will take left over coffee to Pine St.

Ben will give Rachel the contact information and Rachel will write a thank you note.

Extra parking tickets left over from con: Are corporate property. Rick will get reimbursed.  Joel will take the tickets to use at meetings at the hotel.

Odd convention account has $10.  Cris will transfer the $2000 seed money.

Discussion of wireless swipe boxes and the rates we are charged by various providers. No action at present.

Merchant accounts: the deposits are still going to Wainwright. Let things settle out and then we can close up those accounts. Ben now has the relevant statements and account numbers. Needs post-Arisia balances from Feb statements

Convention attendee banned by Park Plaza for sleeping in the hotel. Any queries about this should be referred to Park Plaza. Rachel will draft a letter to send to our lawyer, informing of the situation.  Ben will flag his name in Congo so that we are aware if he tries to register for '07. We are perfectly happy to let him register, but will use the flag to make sure we contact him to check that he really wants to register before we just take his money for a con he probably can't attend


Violation of picture-taking and picture publication policy by a staff member.  Rick will discuss with the individual.  The picture (or pictures) need to be removed before any pictures are placed on the web.

Rob Spence had some gear damaged at the con.  Rick has followed up with him, offering to reimburse his costs to fix.  Staff must be considerate of gear that they borrow on behalf of the convention.

MSP lend NESFA our copier, and any other gear that would be helpful to Boskone.

We discuss policy of lending vs renting radios.  We should still lend radios to other organizations that need them.  Buy 6 more radios to replace broken and lost?  Bring up to corporate when results of this year's convention are known, but before September.

Lunacon wants to borrow the masquerade gear and some sound gear but not film gear. We will work with Lunacon, and lend them the needed equipment.

Guidelines for firing staff, if that becomes necessary

We recommend:

Eboard recognizes that there are too many variables in the situations to have a mandated process.

We should use the term "volunteers" rather than "gophers" going forward.

The motion approved from LRP stated that the party rate is $25, but we would like it to be “current rate - $5”.

Discussion of student rate plans deferred, but it does seem that we should simplify. Discussion of volunteer incentives deferred.  The whole subject should be considered as a package.

Rachel will fix wording of credit card policy so that it is explicit for not having to get credit card imprints for those people we don't expect to charge. This was implicit in our eboard discussion but omitted from the wording published in Mentor.

MSP that it is the sense of the eboard that people on the master bill are charged the same amount as if they had paid to the hotel directly. 

MSP that Rick will buy three more handcarts.

MSP to cancel VoIP phone account that we currently have and reconsider needs in September. Rick will arrange through Skip.

Meeting adjourned approx 10:40.

Membership Roster

Lisa Adler-Golden

Rob Bazemore (honorary)

Aaron Agassi


Dave Belfer-Shevett

Bridget Boyle

Brian Cooper (honorary)

Tom Coveney

Jack Dietz

Regis Donovan

Elka Davidoff

Claudia Mastroianni

Don Eastlake

Jill Eastlake

Tom Fish (honorary)

Colette Fozard

Joel Herda

Brendan Hertel

Lisa Hertel

September Isdell

Jeanne Kahn

Walter Kahn

Allen Kent

Rick Kovalcik

Zanne Labonville

Alex Latzko

Michael Leuchtenburg

Ben Levy

Skip Morris

Susan Mozzicato

Tom Murphy

Karen Purcell

Pam Ochs

Mary Robison (honorary)

Noel Rosenberg

Paul Selkirk

Nicholas Shectman(“Phi”)

Pete Thomas

Rachel Silber

Cris Shuldiner (honorary)

Carsten Turner

Persis Thorndike

Conor Walsh

Pat Vandenberg





Upcoming Meetings

Sat Feb 25 2006 2 pm corporate meeting at the home of Cris Shuldiner, 9 Jeremy Hill Rd., Pelham NH. 603-635-9335

Sun March 12 2006, Arisia corporate meeting at MIT, 2PM

Tues Apr 25 2005, Arisia corporate meeting at Kovalcik/Mozzicato residence, 7:30 PM. Food beforehand at 7:00 PM





Storage Facility Key Holders

1

Joel Herda

2

Alex Latzko

3

Skip Morris

4

Carsten Turner

5

September Isdell

6

Phi

7

Michael Bergman

8

Lisa Hertel

9

Lost

10

Hobbit

11

Landlord

12

(spare with Skip)

13

Persis Thorndike

14

Rick Kovalcik

15

Rachel Silber

16

Ben Levy

17-20

(spares with Rick)



Mentor Subscription Information

Subscription to Mentor of Arisia is included with Corporate Membership to Arisia, Incorporated. Membership runs from September 1st to August 31st and costs $24. Dues are pro-rated on a monthly basis for members joining during the year.

September

$24


March

$12

October

$22


April

$10

November

$20


May

$08

December

$18


June

$06

January

$16


July

$04

February

$14


August

$02



Executive Board

President

Rick Kovalcik

19 Chesley Rd

Newton Centre MA 02459

president@arisia.org

Arisia 2006 Conchair

Nicholas Shectman

75 Lexington Ave

Somerville MA 02144

conchair@arisia.org

Vice President

Lisa Hertel

93 Greenwood Rd

Andover MA 01810

vp@arisia.org

Arisia 2005/06 Treasurer

Cris Shuldiner

9 Jeremy Hill Rd

Pelham NH 03076

treasury@arisia.org

Treasurer

Ben Levy

47 Brown St

Andover MA 01810

treasurer@arisia.org

Arisia 2007Conchair

Joel Herda

17 Heath St #3

Somerville MA 02145

Clerk

Rachel Silber

59 Orient Ave

Melrose MA 02176

clerk@arisia.org

Arisia 2007 Treasurer

TBD




Committee Members & Corporate Appointed Officers

Grant Committee

Lisa Hertel (head)

Honors Committee

Rachel Silber (head)

Budget Committee

Ben Levy (head)

Alex Latzko

Nicholas Shectman

Long Range Planning Committee

Bridget Boyle (head)

Jill Eastlake

Skip Morris

Jack Dietz

Lisa Adler-Goldin

Corporate Inventory Control

Skip Morris (head)

Lisa Hertel

Hobbit

Joel Herda

Technical Equipment Committee

(same as CIC)

Corporate Systems Administrator

Cris Shuldiner

Survey Committee

Pat Vandenberg

Archives Committee

Lori “Jet” Turi

Corporate Sales Officer

Lisa Hertel

Hotel Search Committee

Jill Eastlake (head)

Skip Morris

Janet Stickle

Joel Herda

Timeline Committee

Lisa Hertel (head)

Skip Morris

Nicholas Shectman

Noel Rosenberg

Rachel Silber

Relaxacon Investigation Committee

Jack Dietz




Convention Calendar

Feb 17-19 Boskone Sheraton, Boston MA http://www.boskone.org
Mar 3-5 Intercon F (LARP) Chelmsford MA http://www.interactiveliterature.org/F/
Mar 17-19 Lunacon Hasbrouk Heights NJ http://www.lunacon.org
May 26-28 Anime Boston Sheraton Boston http://www.animeboston.com
May 26-29 Balticon Baltimore MD http://www.balticon.org
Jun 30 - Jul 2 PortConMaine 2006: Revenge of the Pirates (anime/gaming) Portland ME http://www.portconmaine.com
Jul 7-9 Readercon 17 Burlington MA http://www.readercon.org
Jul 7-9 Connecticon (multi-genre) Hartford CT http://www.connecticon .org

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Directions to Cris Shudliner’s (9 Jeremy Hill Rd Pelham NH)

These directions are the simplest, but you may be able to find a shorter route on-line. Call Cris at 603-635-9335 if there are questions. A cat is present.

From Massachusetts:

If you are closer to I-93: 93 North into New Hampshire to exit 3. Turn left off the exit onto NH 111 West. Drive about 4.7 miles. Turn left onto Mammouth Road (NH 128). Drive about 4.3 miles. Turn right onto Jeremy Hill Road. We are the fourth house on the left (Tan with fake brick siding on front).

If you are closer to Route 3: 3 North into New Hampshire to exit 2. After taking the exit stay straight across the bridge. At lights, turn right onto Rt 3A South. Drive about 0.5 miles. Bear left at light onto Dracut Road. Drive about 2 miles. Turn left onto Sherburne Road. Drive until it ends. Turn left onto Mammouth Road (NH 128). Drive about 3 miles. Turn left onto Jeremy Hill Road. We are the fourth house on the left (Tan with fake brick siding on front).

From New Hampshire:

If you are closer to 93, then: 93 South to exit 3. Follow directions from MA.

If you are closer to 3, then: 3 South to exit 2. Follow directions from MA.

Public Transportation: The closest train goes to Lowell, MA. The train is the 12:05 PM train out of North Station to Lowell.  It will arrive in Lowell around 1 PM. Please call Cris ahead of time at 603-635-9335 so he knows how many people to pick up.

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