Meeting Minutes for 2019: 02/9/19

Meeting Called to Order at 2:00pm

Today’s meeting was located at Christ the Lord Lutheran Church in Lawrenceville, GA.

Present:

  • Brad Arnold
  • Earl Baugh (AHCS President)*
  • Ben Bradley
  • Andrew Chong
  • Flash Corliss
  • Andy Craig
  • Doug Dement
  • Ed Fair
  • Joe Gilmore
  • Nolan Gilmore
  • Jon Guidry (AHCS Vice-President)
  • Alan Hightower (AHCS Treasurer)
  • David Kuder
  • Mark Little (AHCS Secretary)
  • James Mahoney
  • Sam Lysinger
  • Rob Mitchell
  • Casey Noble
  • Kyle Owens
  • John Pace
  • Jennifer Pierce
  • Adam Spring
  • Andrew Taylor
  • David Tripp
  • Jose Vazquez (Lisardo)

*Meeting moderator

Old Business:

Updates for Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 7.0:

  • Dates and times were finalized: Saturday, April 20, 2019 (10am-7pm) and Sunday, April 21, 2019 (12noon-5pm) at The Computer Museum of America in Roswell, GA. Access to COA for exhibitors will begin at 9am on Saturday, April 20, 2019.
  • Alan Hightower and Earl Baugh are still working on lining up speakers; Earl thinks he can get a speaker related to UNIX, which celebrates a milestone anniversary this year.
  • Earl Baugh will get the VCFed.org website updated to accept exhibit registrations.
  • All exhibit tables will be 8′ and will cost $20 each.
  • No coffee will be sold at the concessions; only canned and bottled drinks.
  • Earl Baugh will partner with James Mahoney to secure sponsorship that would allow free admission to festival attendees.
  • Flash has solder kits ready for the soldering stations.
  • Earl Baugh has computer books to pick up for consignment.
  • Alan Hightower stressed the need to get the Kickstarter campaign started.
  • Discussion was held about the placement in the COA venue for the speaker area.
  • Earl Baugh will work on getting final designs/colors for the T-shirts for attendees and exhibitors.

Upcoming shows:

  • No upcoming shows were discussed.

New Business:

  • There was no new business discussed.

Presentation:

  • There was no presentation scheduled for this month.

Announcements:

  • There were no announcements made.

Member Projects:

  • Earl Baugh related methods he has used to clean and/or refinish metal computer cases.

Show and Tell Photos:

Meeting adjourned at 2:30pm