In the early days of OSFW, “social media” consisted of a monthly, printed newsletter. The newsletter title was Son Of GPIC, where “GPIC” stood for “Great Pagoda Insurance Company, an obscure reference to Godzilla movies of the day.
In the modern era, at each of our monthly meetings one of our “ritual questions” is to ask for GPIC items, i.e., items of general interest to our community.
Today, the group’s Facebook page serves as the location for the modern equivalent of the old newsletter. We currently supplement this by posting meeting announcements, the annual financial statement, and, as of 2023, the meeting minutes on this website. GPIC lives on in those minutes.
This purpose of this page is to post documents that provide a historical record of the organization, at least to the extent that records are available. Additionally, the initial correspondence from C.J. Cherryh that inspired founding the organization is here.
We have a partial archive of these older newsletters in PDF form. To view the PDF in a new window, just click on the month and year below.
GPIC Archive 1994-1998
GPIC Archive 1999-2003
We have a small collection of ZIP archives of older documents, many scanned as JPEGs, some in outdated Word or Word Perfect files, but none that are readily translatable to web format. If you would like copies of these ZIP archives of older documents, please download them via the links below.