Hello BookWorlders,

I know the meeting wasn’t quite a Round Table… HOWEVER, I’m pleased to inform you
the results of last night’s meeting. With the help of everyone who came to the
meeting, especially with the good co-founders, Dmitriy and Andrey, and your
Commander, Joseph, we have reached many goals:

First, tentative classes for next semester:
Radhika – Post-Apocalyptic
Christopher – Intro to Fantasy
Brian – Wheel of Time or Dune
Rebecca – How to Survive the Nuclear Apocalypse
Misty George – Fairy Tales: Disney vs. Folklore
Albert – History of Middle-Earth
Zach – Reading Comics
Joey – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Analysis
John – Dark Fantasy

Second, the fellow people who are up for assisting:
Dana – if around, willing to guest lecture in a variety of DeCals
Claire – willing to help with random Bookworlds stuff
Alice – willing to help with facilitating any DeCals
Vanessa – helping Misty with her DeCal
Ramsina – most definitely facilitating Harry Potter

Third, the officers in training now for the Spring semester: (except for me)
Thain: Vanessa
Commander: Zach
Ranger: Misty
Keeper of the Scrolls: Christopher
Chief of Propaganda: Claire
Webmistress: Vanessa

*Officers will be meeting up with me to “train”. But please look at our charter on
what your role will be. Chief of Propaganda is still new but Claire and I will be
sorting that out, and as well as updating the charter. We’ll have another meeting to
vote on the revision of the charter.

The goal facilitators must be working on now:
1. Get the syllabus together**
2. Find co-facilitators
3. Find a Faculty Sponsor**
4. Know the steps on making a DeCal (& the paper involved):
http://www.decal.org/start-a-course/
5. Know the Department Deadlines: http://slc.berkeley.edu/ucftr/decalstartup.htm

** If you have already done the syllabus, great! I’ve attached an excel file of past
classes and info on the classes as well as who sponsored it. The list isn’t fully
updated through this semester but I found it stored in this Thain Yahoo Email.
If you found a class on the excel file and you don’t see a faculty sponsor, go to
DeCal.org > COURSES > then search by semester > find the class > you should see a
sponsor name on the DeCal’s page. This DeCal site also allow you to look at the
attached syllabus as well from past BookWorlds classes.

* * * We have a Keeper of Scrolls issue so the syllabus and class materials aren’t
ready to be emailed or sent to you yet but we’re currently working on that. We’ll
keep you updated! I’ll be emailing facilitators a generic syllabus for BookWorlds
once I find it. … I’m doing the best as I can during the library issue…

For those who want to help out:
1. Email the facilitators in the first portion of list and let them know!

For those who need help with anything else:
1. Email me (vvun08 at berkeley dot edu)

So good luck everyone!! We’ll soon have another BookWorlds meeting to make sure that
you’re on track!!

Sincerely,
Thain&WM Vanessa