There was a brief discussion about other up coming conventions and which
ones people were throwing room parties at to promote Minicon. Mars Con is
March1st-3rd and Kevin Austin is planning on throwing a party. Capricon
is February 7th-10th and Larry Sanderson, Laura Jean Fish and Geri
Sullivan will be throwing a party. Boscon is February 15th-17th and Geri
Sullivan and Greg Ketter will be attending and I believe throwing a
party. We also discussed World Fantasy which will be held in Mpls the
weekend of October 31st. Greg Ketter is chairing this event.

Greg Ketter announced that he will be designing and building new art show
hangings for  the World Fantasy convention and has decided that he will
lease them out to other cons who wish to use them. He thought Minicon
would be interested in leasing them due the deteriorating condition of
our current ones.

The copy for PR2 was nearly all turned in to David Schroth our
Publications Head and will be turned over to Andrew Bertke for layout and
design ASAP. We set a goal for a Sunday Jan. 6th mailing party at 2pm at
Toad Hall the home of Geri Sullivan who has been so gracious to host
these on short notice. The materials that will be needed were also
discussed. A large supply of paper that Jeff Schalles has offered to go
and purchase, stamps, mailing labels, and snacks to be purchased by Laura
Jean Fish.

In addition, we discussed contacting Raymond Van Tilburg with Off World
Designs to make T-shirts for this years Minicon. We also raised the
possibility of having our artist guest of honor Rick Berry provide the
art work and gave asked Corwin Brust, Berry's liaison to contact him to
see if he is interested and able to so.
It was also thought a good idea to see if he wants to collaborate with
Andrew Bertke on this years Badges.

Department Heads checked in any new and or pertinent information. 
Lisa Frietag and Greg Ketter said that 15 hucksters have purchased tables
thus far. 
Mike Von Maltzan head of programming has received numerous program
suggestions and is in the process of coordinating panelist with programs
and Guests of Honor.
Head of parties Michael Burgess brought up the need to go check out the
space for appropriate allocations which were are currently scheduling.
Fred Levy Haskell who is on board with Larry Sanderson head of
registration is helping maintain and update the database for
registration. Registrations seem to have picked up slightly and are now
similar to this time last year. This is of course according to the
awesome graph Fred designed and brought to share with all of us visual
learners. 

Last but not least next on our agenda was the need to start writing and
collecting copy for this years program book. Committee members have been
encouraged to begin now and turn in work by the 1st of February with a
drop dead date of February 14th which is also the last pre registration
day at the current rate.


That's the news from Minicon where all the members are strange, all the
children above average and everybody appreciates a good book. 
Writen by your Co-Chair Laura Jean Fish 1/10/02