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Vice-President: for a two year term, ending in 2011: currently held by Charles F. Radley
Secretary: for a one year term, ending in 2010: This position is currently vacant, and you may volunteer at any time to serve the rest of the current term, as well as to nominate yourself for the new term.

Three Director (Board member) slots: for two year terms, ending in 2011: currently held by Scotty Gammenthaler, James Gholston, and David Dunlop.
Notes: All of the above, except David Dunlop, are expected to run for re-election. We are expecting new persons to nominate themselves. Thus, for the first time in a while, we will have contended seats and/or offices.

• Any current member, who has bee a member of the Moon Society for one full years as of August 1, 2009, is eligible for nomination and election. That includes all members with membership #s 1518 or below.
• For officer positions, it is important that only those apply who believe that they can regularly attend our Management Council meetings held on the ASI-MOO (our advanced chat room environment) the first and third Wednesday evenings each month, 9-11 pm Eastern, 8-10 Central, 7-9 Mountain, and 6-8 Pacific Time (2-3 am Thursday morning UT).
• We understand that now and then, something may come up that makes attendance impossible. But unless you are sure that such occasions will not be frequent, please do not nominate yourself or accept a nomination. To keep the Society on the move, it is vital that we meet on this frequent schedule to tend to business and opportunities as promptly as possible.
• For Board positions, the above also holds but if  a Board member misses a quarterly “Board” meeting without a prior excuse, that will be grounds for removal under the revised bylaws adopted last year.

There will be local Apollo Moon Parties, probably on Sat. July 18th and/or Sun. July 19th and
An International Party, possibly an Internet Telethon with hosting to skip from time zone to time zone around the world possibly on the 20th.

We are now busy inviting other organizations to cosponsor, and have had a positive response from NSS Chapters co-ordinator Candace Pankanin.

Log of the February 11th meeting
Log of the March 11th meeting
Log of the April 8th meeting

We have a new Meetings Schedule page, that members can check for the latest information, including information on how to participate. Go to our Downloads Center, scroll to the bottom of the page, and download and print a meetings calendar - 12 months all on one page, with your choice of artwork (5 selections)

Why Wednesday and why that time slot? Well, that's what the Society leaders are used to. They will not be "expected" to attend, but of course are most welcome to do so. In these meetings, we want to hear from members (current and former), from visitors, from friends, etc.

If you do not have Skype, please go to www.skype.com and download this free software. Do not download Skype 4.0 as on that version, group chat is not allowed. When you register for it, you will be prompted to select a "Skype name" this can be your name in the format "firstlast" all lower case, or you can pick a nickname.

Then go to the top menu and click on Conatacts, "Add a Contact" and search for Shaun Moss
and select Shaun Moss Melbourne Australia, and add to your new contacts list. Then, when you want to join the meeting, just click on his name in your contact list and you should immediately find yourself in the Town Meeting group chat.

Further instructions for joining the Meeting via Skype will be forthcoming.

If you have a "high frontier" tale in you, work it out and email it to moonbeams@moonsociety.org

To download the first issue, go to the archive site. Moonbeams issues are freely available in pdf file format, and members and visitors are welcome to circulate them freely and widely. The purpose is to provide fictional illustrations of what life could like on the Lunar Frontier and elsewhere within the Solar System.

.Welcome to the Victorian Space Alliance, Melbourne, Victoria State, Australia, leb by Shaun Moss

In India, the SEDS chapter at the Vellore Institute of Technology outside Chennai (Madras) has expressed interest in serving as a Moon Society Chapter.

It is possible by year's end the Society may have more chapters in India than in the US - we are becoming more truly International, and that is a good thing!

We are ready to give you plenty of help and direction, including names and addresses of current and former members in your area (xx miles form your zip code)

There is plenty of material and how-to information on the Space Chapters Hub website that we share with the chapters of The National Space Society and The Mars Society..