SLAIS Gamers Meeting_ Feb25

SLAIS Gamers Meeting – February 25th 2015

Meeting started: 11:35
In attendance:
Taylor Kenkel (Master of Coins/Treasurer)
Matthew Murray (Internet Overseer/Webmaster)
Maria Paraschos (Scribe/Secretary + Note Taker)

1) Money, etc.
– Taylor: receipts will be submitted to LASSA this week.
– Expenses: Gaming session: -10.65$; Card for library tour: -10$. (Total: -20.65$)
– Current Budget:  approximately +30$ remaining

2) Events!
– Gaming session: could have been more successful; Matthew was hoping more people would come, but it was ok overall; increased visibility of group at least.
– SFU Tour: fun; cool; lead to interesting discussion re: preservation + archiving games, pictures are up on SLAIS Gamers blog

3) Future events and to-dos
– To do: Elect more people!
– Get people to show up at meetings!
– Host another gaming session? Possibly set up something at the End of Term Potluck.
o Taylor to recruit more members from cohort via Facebook page
o Maybe bribe people with baked goods?
o March very busy month. Maria will make a doodle to see people’s availability; put on mailing list and Facebook page; maybe also SLAIS Social page.
– Event: Board Games for Adults at Mount Pleasant library on March 24th from 6PM-9PM.

4) Other interesting things of note
– ALA conference happening end of June, there are games stuff there: Game roundtable interest group in ALA
– Gaming in libraries Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MTGLibrarians/. Good resource for those interested in gaming + librarianship!

Next meeting: March 24th at 12 pm. Maria to book room, TBA (probably Trail Room as usual)

Meeting adjourned:  12:03 PM

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SLAIS Gamers Meeting – January 19, 2015

In attendance:
– Sadie Tucker
– Taylor Kenkel
– Matthew Murray
– Maria Paraschos

1. Elections
– Treasurer/Banker
– Duties: give receipts to LASSA treasurer
– Taylor volunteers to be Banker – motion passes
-To do: pass name onto Michael Wynne on LASSA

2. Money
– 50$ from LASSA, in bank account, accessible now

3. Events
– Sadie: would like more educational events in future, something to think about
– Regular meeting days!
– Possible meet-up at Storm Crow Tavern?
– Vote to hold an event from noon-2 in the Lounge, offer snacks like chips, etc. – Motion passes
o Wednesday February 4th elected as date
o Invite people to bring their own games; Put all our games out so people can choose what to play
o Budget: 10-15$ for chips, etc. – Sadie volunteers to get snacks from SuperStore
o Sadie also volunteered to submit ad for the SLAIS TV/posters

– Maybe organize a panel in the future for gaming librarians, something to look into
– Running RPG systems, learning how to run games – Sadie will look into who will be interested, Taylor can get players.

4. Tour
– SFU Burnaby Campus gaming library, video game room, board game collection
– Matthew can contact librarian(s) there to set up tour
– Possible day could be a Friday or a Wednesday.

5. Other
– Vote to buy games, Dixit won; we could post another poll, or someone could research into what games are in our collection currently, and what we could need/use in future to add to the collection.
– Currently have over 10 games in collection
– Sadie proposed saving the 50$ to use towards events/tour instead of buying new games for now
– Thrift store: Scrabble?
o Need more games that can accommodate lots of people, entry-level to attract more people who would want to play games

– Resource guide: what libraries have games
– Buying dice could also be something to consider in future.

Meeting adjourned: 12:45 PM

Tentative date for next meeting: February 25th, 11:30AM – 12:30

09-18-2014 MINUTES

September 18, 2014

Present: Sadie Tucker, Krista Parham, Erik Granholm, Maria Paraschos, David Saint-Germain, Stephanie Fan, Meghan Whyte, Matthew Murray, Megan Janzen, Luke McLeod, Robert Hamaker

Regrets: Janna Avon

Minutes: Sadie

• SLAIS Gamers has had a Facebook group for a while, but now we want to be a real LASSA group.
• Constitution
  • Loosely based on the ALA group’s constitution, but has things like “sorcery” added.
  • The constitution version that was discussed at the meeting was posted on the Facebook page a day or two earlier.
  • Have changed “dungeon master” to “dungeon moderator” in the interest of gender neutrality.
  • Membership
    • Discussion about opening membership to non-SLAISers or non-UBCers. May decide to welcome people to attend/participate in meetings, but they will not be able to vote or be on the executive.
    • Decided to table until the group is established and then we can consider amending the constitution.
  • Selective glossary
    • Dungeon moderator: Will be responsible for ensuring that games have necessary supplies and that there are sufficient resources to learn them. Will also keep score.
    • Minions = Members
    • Guild = LASSA group (i.e., “rival guilds” = groups other than SLAIS Gamers)
  • Constitution ratification
    • Read through the constitution, made some amendments and ratified (vote was unanimous).
    • Matthew will post/circulate updated constitution?
  • Executive
    • Elected by acclamation
      • Co-thrones (co-chairs): Luke and Sadie
      • Scribe (secretary): Maria
      • Banker (treasurer): Robert
      • Internet overseer (webmaster): Matthew
      • Dungeon moderator: Erik
        • Jay will be a non-member helper… especially since he loves to read game rules.
      • Arch-wizard (faculty advisor): Will ask Aaron if he is interested
      • Other committees will be formed as needed.
    • Events
      • International Gaming Day is coming up on November 15^th. We should do something…?
      • SFU has a large games library. Will look into organising a tour.
    • Fundraising ideas
      • Bakesale: Every group seems to do this.
      • Games tournament: Discussion around how to monetise this.
    • LASSA meeting
      • Next Thursday at noon, room 213 in the Sub. Luke will attend.
    • Regular meeting dates
      • Some discussion about whether we should meet in the afternoon or evening. Less time to play games in the afternoon (limited to about an hour), but more people around.
      • Nothing finalised.

Hey! We had our first official meeting!

We discussed and ratified our constitution.

We elected an executive.

We discussed doing things for International Games Day @Your Library.

We thought about going on a tour of the Games and Gaming Room at SFU’s Fraser Library in Surrey.

We played Magic: the Gathering!