Item one, CopperCon30 Panels:

Don Jacques has two panels and will have them on the Phoenix website, www.msphx.org, after the convention is over.
 
Chuck Lesher has one panel and his presentation will also be on the web- site after the convention is over.
 
Craig Porter has three panels, one of his panels will be on the website after the convention is over the other two panels are audience participation.
 
Each panel placed on the website will be under "Tranquility Community College" or an appropriate name and will be available for members use in their own presentations, the only thing that we ask is that credit be given where due.
 
Other Moon Society Members may upload presentations to the site as they see fit. Please, no tainted files.

Item Two, Telepresence racing:

The details are still being worked on to sponsor the races at the Challenger Center in Peoria, AZ this fall.
 
We are planning several different types of races, basic Telepresence Racing, Advanced Telepresence  racing, and the Moon Challenge Race.  We are still working on the exact parameters of each race although the basic is just that, basic, Advanced will be more difficult and the Moon Challenge will have several extra requirement to it. Those requirements may include "time lag transmissions", remote materials handling, relay legs, and other possibilities. Also discussed were the possibility of taping the video from the cars and web casting the action.  Further discussions included whether to record the races to DVD for sale to the participants.
 
The Challenger Center is also talking about sponsorships for the racing to help pay for the events and equipment if they furnish the hardware.  Don and I have an appoint- ment with Greg Stiles, the Director of Marketing, on the sixth of August to discuss the options that are available.  Some of the options include 1) Celebrity Sponsoring, 2) having students at the Challenger Center build the hazards on the race course, 3) timed racing
and 4) head to head racing.
 
We decided to sponsor four cars ourselves.  We need to have cars that have different frequencies for head to head racing. Possibilities also exist for running the telepresence races at other places in the valley.

 New business:

 Visiting the local Rocket Launches:  We will be contacting the local Rocket Club to get permission to attend a Rocket launching event some time this fall.

 The members present agreed to reimburse Ben for the cost of the Domain Names he had reserved for us and we would take over the responsibility for paying for the ones we are keeping active and dropping the others. - Minutes by Craig Porter