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| July 19, 2002 |
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| At Studio 106, prior to our Mars Movie Night. |
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| In attendance: Jonathan Butler, Shannon Rupert-Robles, Tim Sommer, Dave
Rankin, John Stone and Gerry Williams. |
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| COMIC-CON FAN TABLE |
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| On July 15th, Comic-Con has agreed to give The Mars Society - San Diego a
fan table. They're supposed to send us information regarding it, but we have not received
anything to date. |
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| A fan table will let us put up a display and have a place for flyers and
business cards. It also gives us a central meeting place that we can meet and talk to other
people about what we're doing. |
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| We've decided to design this table to be mostly unattended during the Con,
but also allow any of our members to "man" it for a more hands-on public outreach. Tim has
volunteered to be our principal contact at the table. We'll set up an informal crew rotation
list for booth coverage. |
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| Gerry will head the booth design: a foamcore backdrop with pictures from
FMARS, MDRS and EuroMARS and chapter information, similar to what we're showing at our "Stars
in the Park" outreach. If there is any electrical power nearby, a computer can be set up under
the table to drive a monitor on top of the table, which will continually loop some of our
PowerPoint presentations on the MDRS. |
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| Gerry is also redesigning our flyers, and will generate some business
cards, too. The flyers will be similar in design to what we now have, but updated on one side
to describe our local chapter and its activities, while the other side will beat the drum on
our two Comic-Con panels. The business cards, in addition to being a smaller handout for our
chapter's web sites, can also double as TMS-SD Name Badges during the Con for our panels and
fan table. |
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| "MARS ANALOG RESEARCH STATIONS (MARS)" PANEL |
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| When: Friday, August 2, 2002 at 12:30pm to 2:00pm in Room 7B. |
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| Our guests to date will be our own chapter's members: Dave Rankin will
moderate the panel, Gerry Williams and Shannon Rupert-Robles will talk about their time at the
Hab, and Jonathan Butler will discuss MDRS Mission Support. Gerry will find out from Andrew
Salamon, Kelly Jernigan, Groff Bittner and Gilbert Ikezaki whether they'll be able to
participate in this panel. Tim Sommer will be providing audio-visual support, and Rich Loesch
will be videotaping the panel for us again this year. Shannon is asking The Mars Society for
any other members who were at MDRS if they'd be at the convention, and if they'd like to
participate on the panel. |
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| The panel's structure will be a 10-minute PowerPoint introduction to The
Mars Society and our San Diego Chapter, then Dave will make introductions all around and
discuss the Mission design of MDRS. Shannon and Gerry will discuss their experiences (with
multimedia) at the Hab, and Jonathan (and any others) will talk about Mission Support for MDRS.
We'll wrap up with a Question and Answer session with the audience. |
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| "MARS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE PANEL |
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| When: Sunday, August 4, 2002 at 11:00am to 12:30pm in Room 7B. |
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| Our confirmed Guests at this time are: LARRY NIVEN, author of
"Rainbow Mars" and "Ringworld" (among others); futurist JOHN CARTER MCKNIGHT
who pens "The Spacefaring Web"; from Malin Space Science Systems, Mars Orbital Camera
project scientist DR. MICHAEL CAPLINGER; SpaceDev's founder JAMES W. BENSON; and
"Climbing Olympus" and Star Trek/Star Wars writer KEVIN J. ANDERSON. Dave will moderate
the panel. Gerry will be providing audio-visual support, and Rich Loesch will be videotaping
the panel for us again. |
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| At this point in time, there may be additions to the panel, but none are
confirmed. With the panel this full, we don't need any more guests. However we will be
flexible and attempt to accommodate anyone else that has already been asked. |
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| Since we'll be the first panel in this room for the day, we'll be running
our PowerPoint introduction to The Mars Society and our San Diego Chapter before the panel
starts. Dave will make introductions all around and we'll give each panelist 5-10 minutes
(with multimedia support). We'll then let them do a panel discussion, and eventually get to
questions from the audience. |
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| GENERAL NOTES |
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| Since our room has been moved this year from the Mezzanine Level of
Obscurity to Room 7B, across from all the main event halls, we talked briefly about having
some kind of quick display we could set up outside the meeting room to draw people into our
panels. The MDRS spacesuit would be ideal, but Shannon has been stonewalled so far in her
attempts to obtain one -- she's planning an end-run in a last-ditch attempt to acquire one for
Comic-Con. Other ideas would be to use Jonathan's Mars Society flag, people standing around
outside with Mars globes, and some temporary (but large) signage. Any other ideas would be
appreciated. |
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| We'll be having one more Special Comic-Con Planning Meeting on Sunday,
July 28th at 6:30pm at Studio 106 to nail
everything down. NOTE: We are looking into possibly having this meeting online through The
Mars Society's Chapters Council website Chat Room -- details will follow if we do decide to
move this meeting online. |
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| If anyone else has any comments regarding these meeting notes, please
send them to Gerry Williams for posting to our website. |
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| As usual, for the latest information and event scheduling, check out our
website at: |
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| http://chapters.marssociety.org/sandiego/ |
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