Location: Jeffery’s Restaurant (N49 56.729 W097 05.203)

Meeting called to order at 19:13 CST.

Committee members present: Dani (dani_carriere), Tim (TurdleEggs), Steven (ertyu), Sandra (junglehair), Tobey (3T's&aG), and Paula (MHz).

Committee members not present: Ray (slippery_1), Peter (Peter & Gloria), Jacques (OHMIC), Richard (KiteKacher), Nick (bevro), and Sean (Dragonfreys).

Members Present: Scott (Lizardo), Brian (grnbrg), and Karen (Turdle-Femme).

Old Minutes

• Tim asked for any corrections to the minutes from October 24, 2007. Tobey motioned that the minutes be accepted. Dani seconded it. All agreed.

Membership Report - Steven

• As of November 28, 2007, there are 475 members total, 433 Manitoba members and 197 active (website logins) in the last 6 months.

Treasurer Report - Peter

• No report.

Ad Sense report – Dani

• $98.11US which is almost to $100US where a check will be cut.

Old Business

Printing of brochures and business cards – Jacques

• No report.

Mailing List – Steven and Tim

• Steven has mass subscribed all existing subscribers to the old mailing list to the new one.
• The old mailing list has not been deleted yet but is not being used.
• Steven publicized the new mailing list on the forums.
• It was decided to do a one time only mass subscribe of all current MBGA members to the new mailing list. Steven and Tim will make sure it is done and make sure there is a way for members to unsubscribe if they choose.

Milestones on website – Steven, Peter & Dani

• Steven has reformatted the milestone news item so that it now takes up less space on the page.
• Peter is still working on a way to automate the milestones. Dani has offered to help.

Cacher of the Month – Richard and Steven

• Steven and Richard have December’s Cacher of the Month ready to go. Richard is working on January’s.

Vendor Form letter – Dani

• Dani has fleshed out a very good vendor list.
• Dani created 4 versions of the form letter. A snail mail and an e-mail version for general purpose and a similar set for events.
• Dani will work on making them more mail merge friendly.

GPS SW Training Event – Tim and Sandra

• 42 members were present on November 15, 2007 for the SW Training event.
• Sandra managed to get a GSAK license donated as a door prize for the event and it was awarded to Trove Chasers.

HTML Course – Tim

• A basic course on HTML used when writing logs and formatting cache pages was requested at the SW Training event. It was decided that a 10-15 minute presentation could be added at the next Annual General Meeting in the spring.

2008 MBGA Coin Design – Brian

• A work in progress.

Calendar of Events – Tobey

• Tobey brought a list of upcoming events as follows:
  • MBGA Holiday Hangover, Thursday, December 27, 2007 (5-8pm). Published.
  • “What Is a Blizzard?” MOB, Tueaday, January 1, 2008 (Time TBA)
  • MBGA PubNite at Bailey’s, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 (8pm-?)
  • MBGA PubNite at Boogie’s, Friday, February 15, 2007 (8pm-?)
  • MBGA PubNite in honor of the MBGA’s 3^rd Birthday. Tentatively at
    the Round Table, Wedensday March 5, 2008
• Ideas for PubNite venues are welcome and needed. Please send them to Tobey.
• Many more events for spring, summer and fall were discussed.
• Please submit any planned events to Tobey ASAP so she can try to avoid event schedule conflicts.

Winter Blizzard – Steven, Scott and Tobey

• A work in progress.

Pie Throwing Event – Brian

• One possibility is having it at the Annual General Meeting as well.

Christmas Event – Tobey and Dani

• Tannis's (Tannasarus) and Scott's (Lizardo) church has been booked for Thursday December 27, 2007.
• Dani is handling the gift exchange.
• All present agreed to have the MBGA pay for the hall rental instead of having members donate.

GeoVenture 2008 – Tim and Paul (MtOlympus)

• Paul has been in contact with Tim and is very interested in creating and running another race this year with the addition of a family friendly version. Early September 2008 is the tentative time for this event.

Training Web Page – Nick, Jacques, Richard, Scott

• Steven has set up a brief training web page but needs more content.

Upcoming Training – Jacques, Nick, Richard

• Nothing reported.
• It was noted that Chris (prohkor) has borrowed one of the association’s Geocaching DVD’s and has been doing a lot of training sessions all around the province lately.
• Scott offered to help with training if needed.

Planning Subcommittee – Tim

• At the first meeting of the subcommittee, 2/3 of the Bylaws were revised.
• Next meeting will be in the next 2 weeks.

New Business

Minnesota Geocachers Association

• Tobey mentioned that the Minnesota Geocachers Association has added the MBGA web site as a link on their web site (http://www.mngca.org/).

CITO 2008 – Scott

• Scott offered to once again setup a CITO event this year. He’d like some ideas of what City of Winnipeg public space(s) we should tackle this year. Please send your ideas to Scott.

Next Meeting

• It was decided to not have a meeting in December but to instead have a meeting in early January TBD.

Meeting adjourned by Brian 20:46 CST.

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