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