2020-09-20 Meeting of Anchor Archive
At RadStorm, mostly out on the sidewalk and then indoors for Sylvia's very excellent powerpoint.
Present:
- Amanada - zine library for many years, interested in cataloging.
- Oscar - he/him, new, Information Tech at NSCC
- Mattie they/them programming coordinator for the library … starting some projects.
- Katie she/her long time volunteer including radstom
- Melissa she/her - volunteering, 24-hour zine challenge
- Mark he/him - new to the AA
- Dan he/him or any pronouns -
- Sylvia she/he - coordinator, like to draw
The zine coordinators will be part time until December / January
Communciations:
- Marissa set up a slack for Radstorm, anchor archive channel; we also have email. There are a variety of channels e.g. for Anchor Archive.
- AMANDA will send out invitations
- So - let’s try using Slack
Discussion of how we handle email - maybe expand the “How do I contribute” page on our website.
Graphic Design project - Sylvia
- logo: both hand drawn letters and type font letters are good
- library cards: maybe have user name and not email address on them
- we don’t really need to laminate them
- Updating Booklets:
- Can we make a giant logo for teeshirts? Sure!
- We could do a day to screen print a bunch of stuff
- There will be a screen Print Orientation Oct 1.
Zine & Book Sale
- We’re going to have a table at Eye Level, and here, and outside on the street
- Mattie will go through our distro and set things up so older material moves out to make room for new materials
- There is a Facebook event which we can share.
- Mattie got a list of volunteers
Distro policy
- … as presentedf by Amanda
- the wiggle room on our “commission” is important - we might want it to be zero for some things
- Distro group can decide what zines we want to order
Window
- Mattie & Katie are implementing a zine display into the windows with a weekly rotating theme
Online Event: zine store on line
- more engaging presence online
- how it would work
- only practical locally; addin mailing costs adds a bit of complexity
- pros and cons: could be a lot of work
- 24 Hour Live Stream Zine Challenge
- Digitized Workshops
- Video introduction to Rad Storm
- The diamond in the treasure chest: VR tour of the Archive!
24 Hour Zine Challenge
- Just pick a date and do it
- Friday Nov 13 5pm TO Saturday Nov 14 5pm
- Start at 5pm on Friday to 5pm Saturday
Meeting was adjourned