Cascade SIGGRAPH

Steering Committee Meeting

Summary by Herc Silverstein

Comments/Corrections: herc@schrodinger.com

Location: Art Institute

Time: Jun 26, 2003

6:15-7

Attendees:

Herc Silverstein

Michael Smith

Adam Lake

Connie Winn

Andrew Dennis

Mark Orme

Absent:

Nance Patternoster

– Introductions

We each introduced ourselves

– Future Events

– Aug 4: Anark Studio (4th Generation Media)

They make a 3D browser

They are from Colorado

They are still working on details

Michael to follow up

– Sep 2: etheater

– discussion about whether to try to do it at the Hollywood Theater,

use PCC again, Cinema 21, Laurelhurst, one of the McMenamins, etc.

– Mark will talk to potential locations

– Need to do a better job of PR-ing this event

– Try to establish relationship and indicate it’ll be yearly event

to make it more attractive to them.

– We can charge what we charge for meetings

– supporting member (we’ll put them on our website)

– Oct

Possibly Sony

– Other possibilities

– Adobe. Seems to be in the works forever, but never have

firmed up anything solid.

– Mike Wellins (sp?), probably commercial related

– Liquid (local company)

– gentoo

– animation weekend where people create their own pieces

– siggraph traveling art show (need to make commitment 2 years in

advance and $2000)

– Forming Programming Sub-Comittee

Mark as vice chair to get this going

– Treasurer Report

We are being charged for our checking! Andrew to get that fixed and

get a refund.

Andrew to provide treasurer report by next meeting, possibly

next week.

– SIGGRAPH San Diego

– Mark to attend chapter workshops and get etheater DVD

– get tshirts so we can give them out during cascade chapter meetings

– if anyone knows of someone who wants a roommate, contact Michael

– When to hold future meetings

We’ll plan these later when we know about Anark

– Other Stuff

PR:

– Heidi does electronic, mags, newspapers

– Still need to find someone who can be a PR person for

universities/academia

– board email list: we’ll use the national siggraph ones when they

are fixed and back online

– Michael to add Herc to pcleaders email list

– Volunteers

– We need to get a volunteer coordinator.

– need to enlist volunteers to help grow the membership

– June Election Results

Chair: Michael

Vice Chair: Mark

Treasurer: Andrew

Secretary: Herc

Members-at-large: Adam, Connie

– NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING

Time: 5PM

Location: Art Institute

Date: Tue Jul 15