Cecil Longino
AHF President

I would like to start this meeting by welcoming all our new members to the AHF. We have many exciting projects planned for the AHF in the coming year.

This year’s major project has been the release of the AHF’s new website. I really like the simple yet elegant template it is designed around. Many thanks to Kim Moser, William Elder, Keena Suh, Jeannette Acosta-Martinez and Ben Miller for their tireless work on the past website and the content creation of our new and improved website. The current version of the site was created this summer by Stephanie Zimmerman who is our current webmaster. The site is built on a content management system which features an extended membership module, allowing for future growth and outreach opportunities for AHF members.

We have set up discussion boards for various meetings, committees and projects to discuss regular business. Discussions are currently managed by blog subject and post-comment threads. These are hierarchical, which means you can respond to a specific comment by clicking Reply under the comment itself (like this year’s official report), or you can reply to the overall post (or meeting in our case) by immediately typing in the comment field at the bottom of the meeting post.

The site contains a good bit of excellent information along with various articles and transcriptions of earlier fencing material. We should be posting additional articles, transcriptions and translations soon, as they are completed.

We have a busy year ahead of us and I look forward to working with everyone on growing the AHF in future years.

Next, the official report.

Cecil Longino
AHF President

Unfortunately, the list does not auto-update itself at this time. However, the webmaster can use the Members List plugin to create a new list whenever needed. Therefore, pay attention to the dates, when looking at these, they may not always be current.

 To access this most recently made list, go here.

• Meeting called to order
• Brief introduction to the new website
• President’s report
• First Vice President’s report
• Treasurer’s report
• Past & future of the AHF (defining the AHF)
• Membership responsibilities & benefits
• Future key projects
• Scheduling next special board meeting to review bylaws

To bold the title of each of your reports, you will need to include the strong HTML tag. Example:

<strong>Report Name:</strong>  which will look like this  Report Name:

Since the GoDaddy hosting account is directly attached to this lengthy URL, we cannot change that at this point without rebuilding the site, as many links on various pages are hardcoded to the lengthy URL (I would have thought that WordPress would have made them relative but for whatever reason, the AHF is stuck with the longer URL now.

However, with that said, the shorter URL can be used on advertisements, even for supages. As the domain name transfer will interpret it correctly. For example, these two URL’s point to the same web page: http://ahfi.org/projects versus http://associationforhistoricalfencing.com/projects

- Stephanie Zimmerman