Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:40:51 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Last night's meeting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Actually, we *did* get a quorum.  And all officers were present except
our treasurer and this year's Capclave chair.

We even passed some new business.  After some discussion about
upcoming Capclaves during which various people kept inadvertently
saying "Disclave," we ruled that anyone who says "Disclave" when they
mean "Capclave" has to pay the club fifty cents.  Five cents if they
are working less than 15 hours a week, since several members are
either students or between jobs.

It wasn't clear, but I assume this rule applies only to the formal
meeting itself.

I suggested that instead of waiting for the next meeting, that I be
told as soon as we have a signed hotel contract, since at this late
date I'd be surprised if we aren't losing one or two potential members
for each day that goes by without an announcement.

I'm good at keeping secrets, so if I'm told this ahead of other WSFA
members I promise I won't tell a soul, except for close friends,
relatives, WSFA members, acquaintances, Pegasus publishing, SF-LOVERS,
Filthy Pierre, the rec.arts.sf.fandom, rec.arts.sf.written,
rec.arts.sf.announce, and alt.fandom.cons newsgroups, and the
advantageconvention.com, analogsf.com, andrew.cmu.edu/~roboman,
ansme.com, arisia.org, booksnbytes.com, bsfs.org, bublos.com,
cm.nu/~shane, cooky.demon.co.uk, cool4kids.com, coolgoose.com,
datasegment.com, directebook.com, dirs.educationworld.net,
dmoz.org, fopaws.com, gaylactic-network.org,
geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/6004/USSHIGHLANDER,
geocities.com/TimesSquare/4677, geocities.com/gauvaine,
geocities.com/prather2902, home.earthlink.net/~halhaag, ideas4you.net,
ilectric.com, inconjunction.org, infohelpway.com, interrogative.net,
keithlynch.net, lambdasf.org, lexfa.org, locusmag.com,
maximumedge.com, members.aol.com/prydonians, noreascon.org,
pages.prodigy.net/rekal, prydonians.org, realmsofimagination.com,
revolutionsf.com, roleplaygames.about.com, sarafelix.com,
savecrusade.com, scifi.about.com, scificonventions.com,
sff.net/people/Brenda, sff.net/people/lwe,
sff.net/people/mindy-klasky, sflovers.org, sfsite.com,
shore-leave.com, silverscreentest.com, simegen.com,
speculations.com/rumormill, startrek.about.com, surf-site.com,
taliesan.com/panthans, usshighlander.org, westbranch.net, and
www17.addr.com/~yndrd web sites (the sites which mention last
year's Capclave).  And, of course, our own web site, but only
in a few places.  We wouldn't want this information to fall
into the wrong hands, after all.

In writing the above, I did a Google search for Capclave.  Unlike the
previous times I had done so, I find that there are now several sites
which mention "capclave" which do *not* seem to be referring to our
convention.  They all seem to be Spanish language news sites in
Mexico.  And the word "capclave" seems to always be in the link
syntax, not in the text.  Does anyone out there who knows Spanish want
to take a look?  Is "Capclave" our registered trademark?  If not, could
it become someone else's, and could we be forced to stop using it?

I also announced this list at the meeting, and the fact that we had 24
subscribers, of whom 17 have posted a total of 60 (now 65) messages in
the five (now six) days since it started.
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