General Meeting Minutes - September 25th, 2015

The meeting commenced once ten card-carrying members were confirmed present.

1) Ronda was appointed Chief Electoral Officer for the meeting.
Moved by Kyle, Seconded by Sam

2) Kyle was appointed Chair for them meeting
Moved by Sam, Seconded by Alex

3) Nominations for elected positions were collected. The following people offered their names for positions and were elected unanimously:

• President: Samuel Heersink
• Treasurer: Patrick Besner
• Board Games: Matthieu Jacques
• RPGs: Cavin Bonifacio

4) Amendments to the Constitution

a. To add the following to section IV, and renumber accordingly:

That the President will appoint, and the member ratify at the next meeting, the following Standing Committee Chairs:

i. Membership

ii. Constitution & House Rules

iii. Public Relations

iv. Organized Play Coordination - Board Games

v. Organized Play Coordination - Magic: the Gathering

vi. Role-Playing Games Relations

Moved by Cavin, Seconded by Sam

b.To remove the sections IV c-d, and renumber accordingly:

Moved by Cavin, Seconded by Sam

c. To add the following to section IV, and renumber accordingly:

The Executive Committee shall consist of the following:

• The President
• The Treasurer
• The Six Standing Committee Chairs

Moved by Ronda, Seconded by Sam

d. To create a document of House Rules, maintained by the Executive Committee, and ratified by the General Membership at the next General Meeting.

Moved by Cavin, Seconded by Matthieu

e. To remove section VII point 4, after the words "University of Ottawa".

Moved by Cavin, Seconded by Ronda

f. To remove section VIII point 1

Moved by Cavin, Seconded by Sam

5) House Rules

a. To add the following as House Rule number one:

Dice must lie flat on the table, or otherwise be re-rolled

Moved by Cavin, Seconded by Sean

b. To add the following as House Rule number two:

A card laid is a card played. Once you take your hand off you have made your choice. Opponents may allow rewinds.

Moved by Kris, Seconded by Sean

6) General and Welfare of the Club

a. That the UOGC has no political and/or religious affiliation.

Moved by Kris, Seconded by Sean

b. The majority of members present may remove disruptive people from events

Moved by Ronda, Seconded by Sam

7) Adjournment at 1930

Moved by Sean

Board Game of the Week: Splendour

This part is ripped straight from BoardGameGeek.com:

Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you're wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige.

On your turn, you may (1) collect chips (gems), or (2) buy and build a card, or (3) reserve one card. If you collect chips, you take either three different kinds of chips or two chips of the same kind. If you buy a card, you pay its price in chips and add it to your playing area. To reserve a card—in order to make sure you get it, or, why not, your opponents don't get it—you place it in front of you face down for later building; this costs you a round, but you also get gold in the form of a joker chip, which you can use as any gem.

All of the cards you buy increase your wealth as they give you a permanent gem bonus for later buys; some of the cards also give you prestige points. In order to win the game, you must reach 15 prestige points before your opponents do.

What I can tell you is that the game is super clean looking, requiring little reading once understood, and it can be played quite a few times. It accommodates up to 4 players, and has been doing the rounds these past few weeks to great acclaim from Kris and company.

Thanks for checking out our BGOTW!

-Kyle

Planning Session - Friday, September 4th @ 5:30 PM, Café Nostolgica

Okay folks!

Looking to plan some stuff for the fall. Who's available for this Friday, 5:30 PM at Café Nostolgica?

Potential Agenda Items:
- Board Game Nights

I guess we need to refocus on what options we are offering students here at uOttawa. I'd like to put together a party kit that we can rent out to non-members (specifically, Student Associations). Looking for suggestions for contents.

In addition I need help reviewing the games that we have in storage, and hopefully purging a great number of them.

- Magic the Gathering tournaments

We head a
- Organized RPGs
- Bulk Purchasing
- Tabling/Advertising
- Elections/Organization

Pathfinder cancelled for tonight, September 5th...

But don't worry, there's plenty of Pathfinder action coming to Ottawa this month.

This Saturday, Chris Rothwell is running a Pathfinder scenario at Fandom II. Drop by or give them a call at 613-236-2972. In addition, September 28th will play host to a new Pathfinder Game Day here in Ottawa, hosted at Ottawa Sword School. Visit www.ontariopathfinders.com to find out more about that shin-dig. More Pathfinder stuff will be coming soon to uOttawa.

Also, a big shout-out to all the new folks who came and played D&D Encounters last night!

Finally, I'm looking into hosting MOBA Tuesday's, and I'm working with the University to figure out what the best venue for this sort of thing is. If you have any ideas, drop me a line!

Dealing with Spam

Hey folks!

I realize that everyone's been getting a lot of messages over the past few weeks/months/years from events from this group, some of which you don't really care about.

My solution is this: If you want info about a specific type of event: Board Games, Dungeons and Dragons, or Magic the Gathering - send me (Kyle) a message, and I will add you to a specific distribution list.

I'll keep my send outs to a limited population of people this way, and hopefully not bug the hell out of you.


In addition, new memberships are going to be available this Friday! Yay!

Elections are going to be the last Friday of the month. There are four positions you can apply for: President, Treasurer, V.P. Boardgames and V.P. RPGs.

Get your geek on,
Kyle

Working on the website, etc.

Currently updating the usability of the website, features, appropriate links etc. If you have any recommendations, please let me know.

1:36 AM

Updated Executive. Adam is finally up there.
Sean  - I need a new picture of you!

Updated front page: Now this blog is fed onto there! Whooppee!
Links to the facebook and yahoo. Now to get the facebook group going.

I wonder how things are going to go.

Needed: A few things: I have created some posters, but I am waiting for a few certain companies to reply with permission to use their licensed pictures/properties.

We need more dungeon masters, so we can host most LFR days. Recuitment campaign, anyone?

I also think we need a new logo, something to brighten the visual identity of our group. Or perhaps retrofit our old one to accomodate our growing needs?