From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL> To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Last night's meeting Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:51:10 -0500 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Ladies and gentlebeings, O.K. We got a quorum and conducted business that required a quorum. However, no one actually accepted my bet, so I'm keeping my ten bucks for the next WSFA fundraiser. Concerning the fine for saying "Disclave" when "Capclave" is meant, I object to this discriminatory treatment especially since it seems to discourage productive activity. :-< Also, there is a question of whether government employees actually work 15 hours a week. ;-) Concerning "Capclave" in Mexico, I speak some Spanish and will try to take a look at the "other" mentions of Capclave this week. Lee -----Original Message----- From: Keith F. Lynch [mailto:kfl at KeithLynch.net] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 1:41 PM To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net Subject: [WSFA] Last night's meeting 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. -- Keith F. Lynch - kfl at keithlynch.net - http://keithlynch.net/ I always welcome replies to my e-mail, postings, and web pages, but unsolicited bulk e-mail (spam) is not acceptable. Please do not send me HTML, "rich text," or attachments, as all such email is discarded unread.