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| Date: | Fri, Jan. 9th, 2008
at 6:30 PM |
| Topic: | To Be Announced |
| Location: | West Des Moines Community Center
217 4th Street
in Valley Junction |
MEETING AGENDA
6:30pm - Club Business meeting starts
Action items
On any matter requiring a club vote, please send proxy votes
to Greg Abba by noon of the Thursday before the meeting.
Discussion Items
6:55pm - Wrap-up of business meeting
7:00pm - Programming starts
- Personal sharings
- Announcements
- Dave Reed's latest SF video downloads
7:50pm - Programming ends
7:55pm - Adjourn
8:00pm - Time to exit the facility
8:30pm - Dinner:
To Be Announced
How to contact DMSFS:
Des Moines Science Fiction Society, Ltd.
PO Box 7572
Des Moines, Iowa 50323-7572 USA
(515) 830-1305
info@dmsfs.org
We would like to remind everyone, that all items needing to be placed on the agenda should be emailed to the
club president by no later than the Monday prior to the next meeting. Items received after that will be placed on the agenda for the following
meeting (in 4 weeks). If you have a programming item you want to present, let the president know and that can be added as well.
DMSFS meets the second and fourth Fridays of each month at the West Des Moines Community Center
at 217 4th Street. It is 2 doors north of the Tavern Restaraunt in the Valley Junction district. There is a parking lot off of the 4th Street
side of the building with plenty of room. The building is a 2 story sandstone building with burgundy awnings and trim.
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| 2008 |
| Dec. 31 | Winter S.A.C.C. @ The Roth's |
| 2009 |
| Jan. 1-3 | Winter S.A.C.C. @ The Roth's |
| Jan. 9 | To Be Announced |
| Jan. 23 | T.B.A. |
| Feb. 13 | T.B.A. |
| Feb. 27 | T.B.A. |
| Mar. 13 | T.B.A. |
| Mar. 27 | T.B.A. |
| Apr. 3 | DemiCon 20 prep meeting |
| Apr. 10 | DemiCon 20 prep meeting (no regular DMSFS meeting) |
| Apr. 17 | DemiCon 20 prep meeting |
| Apr. 24 | DemiCon20 prep meeting (no regular DMSFS meeting) |
| May 1 | DemiCon 20 (through May 3rd) |
| May 8 | T.B.A. |
| May 15 | DemiCon 20 post-mortem (not a DMSFS meeting night) |
| May 22 | T.B.A. |
| 2010 |
| Apr 30 | DemiCon 21 (through May 2) |
FUTURE PROGRAMMING PLANS
Here are some programming items or events for which we haven't set a date yet:
- Dave Reed is planning to "beta test" an idea for a new SciFi game show for DemiCon 20
- We're planning on presenting panels from DemiCon that you may have missed. Let us know the ones you want to see again on the
DMSFS Chat e-mail list.
2008.11.20 - DMSFS CALENDAR FEED COMING!
As soon as we can figure out the best long-term logistics of it, we'll be setting up a
Google Calendar feed for DMSFS meetings and other
events (including DemiCon events like ConCom and Dept. Head Meetings) and maybe even TICC events.
You will be able to "subscribe" to this calendar in many computer calendar programs such as
Apple's iCal, Microsoft Outlook, or of course in your own personal Google Calendar, and probably
in other web-based calendars as well.
So you can see what we're working towards, here's a "sample" DMSFS calendar feed you can add to your calendar.
This is NOT the final feed and may change or even split into separate feeds for DMSFS, DemiCon and TICC by the
time we're finished working on it. We have XML and iCal addresses:
Or you can just view the DMSFS Calendar in your web browser.
IMPORTANT: Not all the times shown may be accurate, especially the DemiCon ConCom & Dept. Head meetings
or any TICC events at this time.
Here are some past DMSFS events so you can get an idea of what sorts of things we do:
| 2008 |
| May 2 | DemiCon 19 (thru May 4) @ Hotel Ft. DSM |
| May 9 | DemiCon post-mortem (info coming soon) |
| May 16 | DemiCon post-mortem (not a regular club meeting) |
| May 23 | Slide Show of DemiCon 19 photos, presented by Jon Mohning. |
| Jun. 13 | Dave Reed will present the video he used in a panel at DemiCon 19. |
| Jun. 27 | (info coming soon) |
| Jul. 11 | (info coming soon) |
| Jul. 25 | (info coming soon) |
| Aug. 8 | (info coming soon) |
| Aug. 22 | (info coming soon) |
| Aug. 29 | Summer S.A.C.C. (through Sep. 1st) @ Toad Hall |
| Sep. 12 | Speaker on why Intelligent Design is not good science and also not good theology |
| Sep. 26 | (info coming soon) |
| Oct. 10 | (info coming soon) |
| Oct. 24 | Officer Elections |
| Nov. 14 | Book Discussion: "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow |
| Nov. 21 | DemiCon 21 Dept. Head Meeting (@ The Roth's) |
| Nov. 28 | NO MEETING due to holiday |
| Dec. 12 | Dave Reed's latest SF video downloads
DemiCon 21 GoH selection |
| Dec. 26 | NO MEETING due to holidays |
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2009.05.01 - A MESSAGE FROM THE FUTURE!
Be sure to join us for DemiCon 20: May 1-3, 2009
| Prices |
| $45 through April 1, 2009 | $35 One-Day |
| $50 At-the-Door | |
2008.12.31 - WINTER S.A.C.C. DETAILS
This year's DMSFS Semi-Annual Constitutional Convention (SACC) will be held from Wednesday evening 12/31 through Saturday 1/3 or
possibly even early Sunday 1/4. The Roth Hotel and Convention center will be open continuously until things wind down Saturday night/early Sunday morning.
Families are welcome through most of the weekend.
| EVENTS PLANNED |
| Wed. 12/31 7:00pm | Overdressing evening. Please dress in your finest and bring snacks and drinks to share. |
| Thu. 1/1 | We will be watching Iowa's bowl game, should they end up on New Year's Day. |
| Fri. 1/2 | No specific events planned |
| Sat. 1/3 | Saturday will be our annual no-kids day. The theme will be vampires. Come as a vampire, vampire hunter, or vampire groupie. Entertainment will include episodes of HBO's "True Blood." |
Important:
- Brings interesting SF, Fantasy and DMSFS or DemiCon related topics to discuss with other DMSFS members.
- Bring games, music, video, food, drink, etc to share.
- Please contact Les Roth if you would like to host a meal.
- Food and drink donations are welcome throughout the weekend.
- A limited amount or crash space is available.
- If you have any questions please contact Les Roth at:
2008.11.20 - DEMICON 20 AUTHOR GoH ANNOUNCED!!
DemiCon 20's ConCom is pleased to announce that Hugo and Nebula award-winning author
Joe Haldeman will
once again be our Author Guest of Honor!
Joe was Author GoH at DemiCon 2
and Joe's wife Gay was our Fan Guest of Honor at DC2. Gay is also our regular and welcome guest at most DemiCons.
Both are occasional TICC performers as well. Ironically the DemiCon 2 TICC performance of
"The Haunting of Haldeman House" they performed in was set in the
future...at DemiCon 20! TICC also performed shows based on several of Joe's stories at
World Horror Con 2003
2008.11.14 - PARADOX DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Jon Mohning, your Humble Paradox Wrangler, wants you all to know that because
of his loss of time-sense from the Halloween season, his actual deadline for Winter Paradox submissions is this
weekend (11/15-11/16) instead of last weekend as previously reported. He thanks those of you that gave him things
for the Paradox by that deadline. He's still gladly accepting articles, recipes, filks,
reviews, pictures, puzzles, etc.
2008.11.13 - MORE PHOTOS FROM DEMICON 19
Rachelle Hrubetz passes along the following web site link from John Lars Shoberg & Keith Stokes in KC with photos
from DemiCon 19 at the Midamericon.org Fan Photo Archive.
2008.11.11 - DMSFS WEB SITE NOW HAS RSS FEED
For those of you that like to use RSS news feeds (RSS: Really Simple Syndication) to keep tabs on when new items have been posted to your favorite web sites and blogs,
DMSFS now has an RSS feed for the news items and meeting announcements on the main page. The feed's web address is:
http://www.dmsfs.org/dmsfs_feed.rss if you want to add it
to your newsfeed reader. If you're not familiar with RSS newsfeeds and readers, check out
Bloglines
or Newsgator.
2008.11.03 - PARADOX DEADLINE LOOMS
Jon Mohning, your Humble Paradox Wrangler sends you all a gentle notation that the deadline for the Winter 2008-2009
Paradox issue is this weekend 11/8-11/9.
He'll gladly accept articles, recipes, filks, reviews, pictures, puzzles, etc.
2008.10.25 - NEW DMSFS OFFICERS ELECTED
At the Oct 24th, 2008 meeting, the following new DMSFS officers were elected (or in some cases re-elected)
2008.10.23 - DMSFS NOW HAS A MYSPACE PAGE
Thanks to Jon Mohning for setting up and maintaining a
MySpace page for the club - it's another way to reach out to the Internet
and attract new members. Jon posts DMSFS news to the blog there and there is an RSS feed available for those folks who like using Internet news feeds to keep up on things.
2008.10.23 - DMSFS NOW HAS A GOOGLE GROUPS PAGE
If you have difficulty subscribing to the DMSFS Chat e-mail list, you can read it online via it's
Google Groups DMSFS Chat page
2008.05.05 - THANKS FOR JOINING US AT DEMICON 19!
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