[Coco] Glenside Club Meeting: *NEW MEETING DATE* Thursday October 6, 2022 @ 7:30PM Central

[Jim Brain (2021-22 GCCC President)]

As noted in our August meeting, to accommodate more of our members, 
we’re moving our meeting date from the third Thursday of the month to 
the first Thursday. If you’ve been unable to participate due to 
scheduling conflicts and this eases them, I hope you can join us.

For myself and no doubt others in our community, September passed by in 
a blur. Along with other classic computers, the CoCo was well 
represented at the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest in Chicago, and 
both our club and the CoCo made appearances at the recent Tandy Assembly 
in Springfield, OH. Though for some, the travel is a bit onerous, 
meeting familiar faces and sharing time together at these shows is a 
welcome respite from the tedium of life. That said, as I sit here after 
having just spent the last few hours unpacking from the Tandy Assembly 
trip, the after trip unpacking blues are real :-). (and I didn’t take 
that much to either show…)

All that said, I apologize that the rush of events delayed my sharing 
the results of our September officer nominations and explaining the lack 
of a voting period this month. For our 2022-23 officers, I was nominated 
as President, and I want to congratulate John Mark Mobley on his 
nomination for 2022-23 Vice President and Eric Canales on his nomination 
for Treasurer. Nominations for those 3 offices were closed during the 
meeting, and since there was only 1 nominee for each office, no voting 
was required. For Secretary, no nomination was made, so the nominations 
were left open. I’ll once again ask for nominations for this position at 
the October meeting, and I believe we have one interested member to 
nominate. If you are also interested in the position, there’s still time 
to be nominated. I don’t know how often Glenside’s had no contested 
office positions in the past, but I can confirm the frustrating rumor I 
heard at Tandy Assembly that no one ran for any of the offices this year 
is untrue. As always, if you have concerns about the process, please 
reach out to either an officer or board member.

With the CoCoFEST! venue change and pricing increases, CoCoFEST! 
coordinator Grant Leighty will share more details this month on table 
fees, admission fee considerations, and other income source discussions. 
The hotel room block is already open for room reservations, and I know 
Grant and Randy Weaver are hoping to have table reservations available 
in November.

For those in the Chicago area, we’ll also discuss dinner/get together 
interest and dates, if desired. The increasingly spread out nature of 
the club poses logistics challenges for face-to-face events, but where 
there’s interest, there’s solutions!

We will open the call early at 6:30PM as in previous months, for some 
time to catch up and say hello to new faces.

Meeting Agenda: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B07TFgLtN-d-8htUnh2ISn7YlWaSooGZ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101249560154994960936&rtpof=true&sd=true 
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