[CircularOfJanus] April 2017 Circular of Janus delayed. Some highlights

[Lynette R. F. Cowper]

Sorry, folks! I'm not going to be able to get out the regular Circular in
time, but wanted non-members to have something. Don't forget the meeting
is *tonight*! I'll try to get out the real thing with the calendar and all
later. Until then, here's the highlights from the Minutes.

Highlights from Minutes of the March General Meeting
 by Southwell Cowper

Circle of Janus, Inc.
   General Meeting
   Valley Mills Christian Church,
   Indianapolis, IN 46221
   March 4, 2017

Officers Present:
   Mike Cowper, Chairman of the Board
   Ricky Lile, President
   Anjala Dick, Vice President
   Southwell Cowper, Secretary
   Jeremy Murray, Treasurer
   Joe Greene, InConJunction 37 ConChair
   Beckie Margedant, InConJunction 38 ConChair
   John Belden, InConJunction 39 ConChair

Officers Absent:
   Melissa Kocias, Sergeant-at-Arms

Members:
   34 adults, 3 kids.
   No guests or new members.

Opening:
   Meeting called to order 7:01 pm.

Minutes:
   The February meeting minutes were approved as published.

Reports:
   Convention:
      InConJunction 37 (Joe Greene):
         All guests confirmed, looking at another potential guest that
would re-write budget but would be good for finances based on
draw
            a well-known YouTuber
            having problems getting a response
         Programming is about two-thirds full
         Hotel Liaison is looking for assistant, in part to train a new
person to do the job
         Fliers/bookmarks have been printed, get them from Mike Cowper if
you have places to distribute them

      InConJunction 38 (Beckie Margedant):
         Still having a con, no news otherwise

      InConJunction 39 (John Belden):
         nothing to announce, but early stuff is getting done

   Board:
      Board meeting coming up on 18th at Valley Mills at 1pm, members welcome
      nothing to report since last meeting

   Committees:
      Archivist, Webmaster
         No report

      Audit Committee
         Kim stepping down, need a new audit "committee", the committee is
only one person
         speak to Ricky if you're interested

      Member Services
         sent out some cards, more are going out, bereavement gifts were
given to Kat

      Outreach Coordination
         Pride
            registered for Indy Pride
            Lynette needs someone else to do Pride because she will be in
Alaska that weekend
            Beckie and Roxy have agreed to take it over, but they still
need volunteers for the festival on June 10th
         some discussion on perhaps having a presence at the Rainbow Run

      Quartermaster
         if anyone needs stuff from storage, get a hold of Dillan by
phone, not Facebook or email

Old Business:
   Kurt Vonnegut Museum Fundraiser:
      problems with making payment online, needs to either be called or
visited in person

   Member Cards:
      Jeremy has them, come and get them (after the meeting).

New Business:
   Club Activities:
      March non-meeting meetings
         Who's Yer Con is the last weekend in March
         drive-ins are opening
         PokeGo hunting?
            do when there is no event
            set up a date after meeting
         St. Patrick's Day
      April post-meeting
         psyanky still
      April non-meeting meeting
         Beatles presentation from Ron Hawkins on the 20th
      May post meeting
         gaming and pitch-in
         maybe also Nerf wars, since it will be warmer and fern can happen
outside while games happen inside

Announcements:
   Anjala - Feed the kitty!  Beckie has gotten us a new one.
   Kat - Granddaughter's basketball team defeated a previously undefeated
team and won the championship.
   Kat - More Girl Scout cookies in car.
   Kat - Still has Zombie Fried but storage is going to become
unavailable, so she is looking for places to make them donations.
   Kat - Kent and Cat, Stacy and Matt have had their babies, Cat's dad not
doing well.
   Laura Edwards - InConJunction is going to have a table at Who's Yer
Con, stop by if you're there and want to man for awhile.
   Randy - Apollo 11 capsule going on tour for 50th anniversary after
restoration, closest to us is St. Louis Science Center
   John Belden - Rock of Ages is going to have a local production at
Theatre on the Square, opening next week
   Dillan - had surgery, it went well, hoping to be running within 6-8 weeks
   Leah - selling at Indy Comic Con, has 4 badges if people want to help
sell in exchange for a badge
   Gary - saw Logan, didn't like it, but the Deadpool trailer looked good
   Lynette - if you like comics or political thrillers, Brad Meltzer is
doing a talk in Fort Wayne at 7pm at the Jewish Federation of Fort
Wayne on Monday the 6th, also has script of If Dr. Seuss Wrote The Next
Generation if anyone wants to read it for post meeting
   Kat/John - a bunch of Batman memorabilia items have been given to
Children's Museum from Kevin Silva's collection
      going to see the collection could be a good non-meeting meeting
   Wendy - Monday March 27th W. Comeau Bell lecture at Clowes Hall, it is
free, you just have to reserve tickets
   Jeremy Hana - There was an orphanage in South Dakota that got 100
thousand diapers stolen from them, Amazon, where Jeremy works, decided
to donate 150 thousand diapers to the orphanage
   Joe - Mythbusters' Adam Savage in Detroit tomorrow for the Braincandy
tour, Joe is happy to go if someone wants to go with, but cannot go
alone

Hand off to Mel for post-meeting event instructions

Close of meeting – chaos declared at 7:34 followed by Dr. Seuss stuff.

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Minutes of the March Board Meeting
by Southwell Cowper

Circle of Janus, Inc.
   Board of Directors meeting
   Valley Mills Christian Church
   Indianapolis, IN
   March 18, 2017

Officers Present:
   Mike Cowper, Chairman of the Board
   Ricky Lile, President
   Anjala Dick, Vice-President
   Southwell Cowper, Secretary
   Jeremy Murray, Treasurer
   Melissa Kocias, Sergeant-at-Arms
   Joe Green, InConJunction 37 ConChair
   Beckie Margedant, InConJunction 38 ConChair
   John Belden, InConJunction 39 ConChair

Others Present:
   None

The meeting was called to order at 13:09 am.

Approval of Meeting Minutes: The January minutes were approved as submitted.

Communications:
   InConJunction 37 (Joe):
      has proposed second version of budget
      sounds like eGaming isn't gonna be a thing
      looks like we have all the guests set to go
      gonna set up a photo shoot situation with the massage people
      need t-shirt art still
      print more bookmarks/postcards before Who's Yer Con for our table there

   InConJunction 38 (Beckie):
      has toastmaster, author, featured musician, artist, featured author
with that artist (artist is a comic artist)
      wants Yavin 4
      also looking at Time Crash from Chicago

   InConJunction 39 (John):
      needs to send out inquiry letters, so not much to report

Old Business:
   Social Media:
      Drew and Mike C. are looking at some changes to the server to make
it more user friendly
      need to be posting stuff to Facebook and such
      subreddit, still Beckie and Mel, gotta do thing

   Vonnegut Museum:
      Still needs to contact them, he's just real busy

   Indy Pride:
      they still need the stuff
      she said we have a parking space and something else and something else
      have we thought about doing Spencer pride
      need to look into numbers and how likely we are to get people who
actually wanna come to the con

New Business:
   Rob Pyatt moving:
      Club maybe getting Rob a moving gift - captain America pjs??
      bring it up at next regular meeting

Meeting adjourned at 14:14.

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April Meeting Agenda

 The Circle of Janus
 April 8, 2017

 Opening of Meeting (7:00pm)
    Introduction of guests & member attendance
    March meeting minutes
 Communications
    Treasurer's Report
    Convention Report, InConJunction 37
    Convention Report, InConJunction 38
    Convention Report, InConJunction 39
    Board Report
    Committee Reports, if needed
       Archivist
       Audit Committee
       Member Services Report
       Outreach Coordinator
       Quartermaster
    Other Communications
 Old Business
    Kurt Vonnegut Museum Fundraiser
    Member Cards
 New Business
    Gift for Rob Pyatt?
    Activities
       April Non-meeting
          Beatles presentation by Ron Hawkins on the 20th
       May Post-Meeting
          Gaming and pitch-in, maybe with Nerf Wars
       May Non-meeting
          Previous suggestions: Drive-in movies, Pokemon Go hunting.
       June Post-Meeting
          Previous post-meeting suggestions not implemented:
             Skincare and makeup talk/demo.
 Announcements
 Close of meeting – Chaos

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Meeting Info
   The next meeting of the Circle of Janus is on Saturday, April 8, 2017,
at Valley Mills Christian Church, 5555 Kentucky Avenue, Indianapolis,
IN, starting at 7:00 pm. There is a Convention Committee meeting
preceding it at 5:30 pm. We will be doing Pysanky (fancy colored eggs)
afterward. Gaming and general hanging out also encouraged!

Officers
   Board Chairman – Mike Cowper
   President – Ricky Lile
   Vice-President – Anjala Dick
   Secretary – Southwell Cowper
   Treasurer – Jeremy Murray
   Sergeant at Arms – Melissa Kocias
   InConJunction 37 ConChair – Joe Greene
   InConJunction 38 ConChair – Beckie Margedant
   InConJunction 39 ConChair – John Belden