Date of meeting: 23 May, 2003.

Venue: David Eisner's House, Coquitlam.

Members present:

Dave Grant
Don
Deisner
Doug
Dale H.
Dale G.
James
Christie
Eden
Warren (late)
Kyle (late)

* These late people should get some kinda penalty... some kind of hazing ritual perhaps?

Acting Chair: David Eisner
Minutes: Eden Stamm

Old Business:

1) Defining a Guest and their privileges:

To be a guest, you MUST be sponsored (invited) by a VRPA member. It was decided through discussion that the host of a meeting should be able to invite up to 2 people that are non-members at their discretion. A guest must also be permitted to attend by the HOST of the meeting. It was also discussed and decided that a guest may only attend a meeting up to 3 times in a calendar year, after which they must attain Membership status.
(Refer to qualifications of membership for further details)

2) Promoting VRPA.ca in the Buy & sell:

Deisner had suggested that we find a way to promote the VRPA in the B&S, and was looking for suggestions from other members. After discussion, it was decided that the main focus of this is to get more people interested in pinball, and becoming VRPA members. It was decided that a VRPA/Guest page be created to welcome new people who find us through the Buy & Sell, and then link them to our forum. Deisner will be creating this page for us in the future. Eden will write a little add to promote our 'Pinball Club', and will also look into pricing for an ad to run.

New Business:

1) Deisner needs to register the VRPA.ca website with search engines. He will be doing this shortly.

2) Pinballodyssey in Medford Oregon: Will VRPA be going as a group? At the time of this meeting, only Dale G, Christie, and Eden are planning to attend the event, and may meet up at the show itself, but will be traveling down separately.

3) Tournament: There will be no tournament tonight due to time constraints, and other obligations involving this meeting's host. There will be a hands-on seminar about shopping a game, with special focus on 'Ferris-wheel Belt Repair'

4) It was suggested by Kyle Seller that we do an 'appearance' on Speaker's Corner to help promote the VRPA. Kyle will do this for us.

** Deisner mentioned he wanted to meet the lady-host of Urban Rush 2, Erin... Eden, along with any other members, will help work on this!

5) VRPA Shirts: It was discussed and decided that we would make grey t-shirts showing Kyle's 'Williams-font' VRPA.ca on the front left breast (possibly embroidered... will be looked into) and the VRPA.ca 'Banner' on the back (same as our website banner) not embroidered. Kyle will be taking care of this, since he has a friend in the t-shirt business. Eden requested the files of both the font and the banner to look into getting a price on a fully embroidered shirt.

6) FTP site: It was suggested by Doug that we create an FTP site for VRPA members to share and store scans, files, and other pinball related things to share with each other. Deisner will look into getting one created.

Meeting adjourned. Game playing ensued.