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May 12, 2006

May Meeting - Galactic Civilizations 2 Post Mortem by Brad Wardell & Stardock

We are having our May meeting on Wednesday May 17th, yes next week from 7-10 pm at Station 885 (www.station885.com) in Plymouth, MI.

- food and fees
- About Gal Civ 2
- Additional items, Freeform Fusion
- Help Wanted with the chapter activities

There are fees associated with this meeting:

$10 = IGDA Members (national chapter, student or professional)
$10 = IGDA Members (local chapter) - none as of right now.
$15 = non-IGDA Members
$25 = non-IGDA Members, who join the local chapter at this meeting.

Please send a verbal RSVP to Richard-at-moyaentertainment.com

Please click on Continue Reading for more details about the meeting.

---> food and fees

There will be food for attendees, which is covered in part by sponsorship from Stardock (http://www.stardock.com) and in part by a entrance fee. Drinks will be available at a cash bar.

The fee for attendees as follows:

$10 = IGDA Members (national chapter, student or professional)
$10 = IGDA Members (local chapter) - none as of right now.
$15 = non-IGDA Members
$25 = non-IGDA Members, who join the local chapter at this meeting.

We have decided to set our local chapter membership rate at $20 a year. For this meeting only the local chapter dues at this meeting only will be $15.

So, if you come to the meeting and want to join the local chapter as well, your fee for the meeting will be $25.

Your local chapter membership money will be used to pay for this meeting as well as future meetings, if we have any extra left over.

---> About Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords

Galactic Civilizations II is the sequel to Stardock's award-winning strategy game. Set 30 years further in the future, the alien races from Galactic Civilizations are caught up in an inter-stellar civil war. But as they will all soon learn, there are far worse things in the universe ... than each other.
Here is a link to their site: http://www.galciv2.com/

---> Additional items, Freeform Fusion

We will briefly talk about chapter activities, specifically dues and putting together an Advisory Board, plus additional help wanted.

---> Help Wanted with the chapter activities

We need someone to write a Meeting Event Report and take Pictures for us to post once the meeting is over. This is a simple job and will help us out a lot!

Sorry for the late meeting notice, hope to see you all at the meeting.

Rich Elswick
Jay Semearad
Brian Winn

--> Visit the local chapter webpage at http://www.igda.org/smichigan
--> Visit our local chapter sponsor, Stardock, at http://www.stardock.com

Stardock was founded in 1993. Its mission has been to create PC software for both the business and consumer markets.
It is best known for creating extensions to operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2. These extensions have enabled companies and individuals to customize their operative environment to suit their individual needs.

Stardock's software has been licensed and used by hundreds of companies. Microsoft licensed Theme Manager OEM to deliver branded desktops for Xbox and their games, ATI licensed DirectSkin to create a skinned configuration program. Movie Studios have licensed DesktopX Pro to create alternative looking computer environments. Companies such as Alienware have licensed Stardock's software to deliver high performance custom desktop environments.

Posted by RichElswick at 11:00 AM | Comments (0)