IFGS BOARD MEETING MINUTES
6/12/18 – Final
Wherein the FRC is continuing work on the Movement Monk specialty and is taking a new look at Fighter abilities. Central Ohio Provisional Chapter has started running games. Brad Evenson is the new Society Safety Officer. The Ohio River Valley Provisional Chapter was established, with Olan Knight as their Society Board liaison.
The 6/12/18 Society Board Meeting was called to order at 8:11 p.m. Eastern Time, via Discord. Present were Board Members John Jones, Brad Evenson, Pat McGehearty, David Spence and Sarah Gibson. Hugh Greene was late, along with Melanie Greene from the Northern Alabama Chapter. Olan Knight was late, temporary proxy to David Spence. Society Clerk Janice Gott was also present. Hope Fountain and Shelly Ralston from the incipient Ohio River Valley Chapter were present.
STANDING BUSINESS:
MINUTES: MOTION: To approve the minutes of the 5/18/18 Board Meeting (Spence, Gibson, by acclaim).
FRC REPORT: The FRC is in the final stages of approving new Hits & Misses. Movement Monk abilities are under discussion. They are looking at a new set of Fighters abilities. They intend next to go through the 7.0 Rulebook page by page to revise.
SSC REPORT: The SSC continues to refine the Bluebook for new SAS in class specializations
TECH COMMITTEE: Jones updated the Society website with a link to the IFGS Discord channel. He also assigned roles to Society Officers on the Discord Channel.
GENERAL PROMOTIONS: Nothing to report.
Olan Knight arrived.
REGISTRY: Nothing reported. Gott is sending IFGS files for backup to Registry.
CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW TASK FORCE: Nothing to report.
CHAPTER LIAISON UPDATES: Central Ohio Provisional Chapter ran one game and has two games scheduled.
Hugh and Melanie Greene arrived.
SOCIETY SAFETY OFFICER: Brad Evenson is taking over as Society Safety Officer, with Dave Ellis remaining on the Safety Committee. Evenson will be contacting all of the Chapter Safety Chairs.
MOTION: To appoint Brad Evenson as Society Safety Officer while retaining Dave Ellis as a member of the Society Safety Committee (Knight, Spence, 6-0-1, Evenson abstaining).
OHIO RIVER VALLEY PROVISIONAL CHAPTER: A group from southwestern Ohio has gathered 10 members and held an organizational meeting, and is petitioning to revive the Ohio River Valley Chapter. They discussed the Standard Chapter Constitution, and asked to make two changes to it, to require Chapter Safety Officers to be CPR/First Aid certified, and to allow electronic voting.
The Board suggested that they put the Safety Officer CPR/First Aid status as recommendation in their chapter policy, not a requirement in their constitution.
MOTION: To grant the Ohio River Valley Chapter Provisional status, along with permission to adapt the Standard Chapter Constitution template by changing Article VII, Section 2: Method of Voting to allow the use of a secure electronic voting service (Jones, Evenson, 7-0-0).
Congratulations to ORV for their provisional status!
Hope Fountain says they are interested in receiving some convention games to run at area conventions, which other Chapters immediately offered to provide. She says there are a lot of other LARPs in the area, and people from the region are used to coming to Cincinnati for games.
MILESTONE AWARDS: Greene wants clarification on how to allocate Milestone Awards for multiple game writers. The Registry Handbook says in one place that there can only be two recognized game writers, and speaks of more than two elsewhere. Knight will come up with a clarification and bring it to the Board.
MOTION: To go into closed executive session (Spence, Gibson, by acclaim). The Board was in closed session from 9:07 to 9:27.
MOTION: To appoint to appoint a Special Committee consisting of Hugh Greene, Sarah Gibson, and Brad Evenson as Chair to investigate the banning of an IFGS member (Spence, Knight, 7-0-0).
CHAPTER LIAISON TO THE ORV CHAPTER:
MOTION: To appoint Olan Knight as Society Board liaison to the Ohio River Valley Provisional Chapter (Spence, Evenson, by acclaim).
NEXT MEETING: The next IFGS Board Meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 18th. Times for the meeting are 5 pm Pacific, 6 pm MST, 7 pm CST, and 8 pm EST. The meeting will be held on Discord. The meeting was adjourned at 9:36 pm EST.
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CHAPTER LIAISONS
Dallas – Evenson
Denver/Boulder – Spence
Norman – Spence
Pacific Northwest – Jones
Northern Alabama – Gibson
Provisionals:
Greater Milwaukee – Greene
Central Ohio – Spence
Ohio River Valley – Knight
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PROJECT LIST
Completed Tasks
Society-level electronic voting – Completed
Society Waiver Forms – Completed
Stoplight Policy – Completed
Milestone & Karma Awards – Completed
Business Cards – Available on Vistaprint
Updating Society Website to WordPress – Completed
In Process Tasks
Updating Governing Documents – In process with Society Task Force
Updated Committee Charters – In process with Society Task Force
On Hold
Character Creation System
Expand and Revise Wiki (Possibly incorporating online rules.)
Sci-Fi Rules
Not Started
Updating GW Handbook–
Streamlining the payment processes between Society and Chapters –
Treasury Tracking –
Shared Calendar on Website –
Creation of a Treasury Handbook –
Membership Tracking –
Link Exchanges –
Research for 8.0 Rules Set –
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Society Board Members
John Jones (TX) (2019) [Pres]
Sarah Gibson (TX) (2020) [VP]
Pat McGehearty (TX) (2020)
Brad Evenson (CO) (2020)
Olan Knight (TX) (2019)
Hugh Greene (AL) (2019)
David Spence (TX) (2019)
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Fantasy Rules Committee (FRC)
David Spence (TX) (2019) [Chair]
Henry Wood (TX) (2020) [Vice Chair]
Brad Evenson (CO) (2019)
Hugh Greene (TX) (2019)
Seth Bush (TX) (2020)
David Gibson (TX) (2020)
Michael Englerth (CO) (2020)
Joshua Harris (TX) (2019) ad hoc temporary
Society Sanctioning Committee (SSC)
John Jones (TX) (2020) [Chair]
Seth Bush (TX) (2019)
Olan Knight (TX) (2020)
Kaaren Davis (CO) (2019)
Melanie Greene (AL) (2019)
General Promotions Committee (SGP)
Sarah Gibson [Chair]
Jason Dziuk (2015)
open (2014)
open (2014)
Publications Committee
Members all informal appointments –
Elections Committee
Chris Seals (TX)
Jason Dsiuk (TX)
Janice Gott (OH)
Registry Chair
Olan Knight (TX)
Tech Committee
Brett Paul (CO) Interim Chair
Robert Armstrong (TX) [potential Chair]
John Jones (TX)
Bethany Vann (OK)
Sarah Gibson (TX)
Open
Safety Committee
Brad Evenson (CO) [Society Safety Officer]
David Ellis (CO)
Constitutional Review Task Force
Hugh Greene (AL) [Chair]
Brad Evenson (CO)
Ray Michel (CO)
Christopher Seals (TX)