Minutes: January 31, 2007
January 31, 2007 5:47 pm Leave your thoughtsCascade SIGGRAPH Board Meeting
January 31, 2007
Minutes by Fran Zandonella
Please send all corrections to Fran Z.
Location
Lucky Lab, 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, in Portland
Time: 5:15pm – 6:00 pm
Attendees
Jeff Borg, Demetra Gilmore Arnett, Andrew Dennis,
Fran Zandonella, and Herc Silverstein.
Minutes
Minutes from August (8/17/06), September (9/7/06), October (10/20/06),
November (11/10/06), and December (12/18/07) have not been approved.
Old Business
Health Insurance
Jeff emailed Lauren at ACM headquarters. She mailed him back a link
on the ACM insurance. Jeff will do more research and send the link
to Andy. We’ll add the link to the web page, and send email about it.
* Jeff will do more research about getting healthcare and send the
ACM link to Andy.
* Jeff will send Fran the health care link to add to the web page.
* Jeff will send email about health care to our members.
Banners
We’d like to have a banner that fits under a table. Demetra still needs
to connect with Michael on this issue. She will try to get the banner
before the next meeting.
* Demetra still needs to connect with Michael about getting a banner
before the next meeting.
Volunteers
We need volunteers!! We need a volunteer coordinator!
We need a volunteer to advertise to employers to submit their jobs
to our job list jobs@cascadesiggraph.org.
* Jeff will send out an email announcement to solicit volunteers.
New Business
The Junto
While reading about Benjamin Franklin, Fran discovered that he formed a
group called “The Junto” that was similar to Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH. He
had a list of questions that the group tried to address at their
social meetings. Fran believes that these would be good questions to
address at our CG Socials. Here is a link to the questions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto#The_Questions
* Fran will send the link about The Junto to the Board.
Mailbox
Andy renewed our mail box. Yay!
Committee Reports
Events
General Event Info
Meeting Prep
Fran found her notes from the LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter on how to put together
a meeting. It is a meeting checklist for meeting producers.
* Fran will send a copy of the Meeting Checklist to the
Programming Committee.
Fran also has Speaker Contracts from CHI FOO.
* Fran will email Demetra the Speaker Contracts for use with our chapter.
Past Events
None due to Holidays.
Upcoming Events
January Meeting, CG Social w/Showing the
Space-Time Animation Competition
January 31, 2007
Producer: Kristen
The Board Meeting is right before this event. It is being held
at the Lucky Lab Brewery on Hawthorne.
February Meeting, Professor Mike Bailey from OSU
February 8, 2007
Producer: Demetra Gilmore Arnett
Professor Mike Bailey from Oregon State University has
offered to speak on a cg/scientific visualization topic.
We’ll try to push this meeting back to the 15th, since
we don’t have a venue confirmed yet, and the 8th is next week.
* Demetra will call the PCC and Mike Bailey to make arrangements
to push the meeting back to February 15th.
February Meeting, Sony Presents
February 27, 2007
Producer: Patrick Coan
Sony is not yet confirmed. The PCC has the room reserved for
the meeting for February 27th.
* Jeff will talk to Sony to see if they can do a meeting in February.
March Meeting, BYOA (Bring Your Own Art)
March 29 or April 4th or 5th, 2007
Producer: Michael Smith
This meeting date is not yet confirmed. It is more likely
to occur at the end of March or beginning of April.
Martin Pelham at Laika has volunteered to bring some models made
by 3D applications and printed on the 3D printer. This printer
is being used on the Coraline production.
* Demetra will speak with Michael to nail down the details of
the BYOA Event.
April Meeting, How to Get a Job in Computer Graphics
April 17, 2007
Producer: Fran Zandonella
The venue at the PCC has been reserved. Fran still needs to get
speakers for the event and the Portfolio Review.
Andy suggested a great idea: having a Portfolio Review
ala American Idol. We would need a good Simon and Paula, etc.
Traveling Art Show (TAS)
Producer: Ann M. & Genny Orr
No new news.
Future Meeting Suggestions
For our Socials, how about doing a Pub Quiz? Jeff would like to
MC it.
Membership
No change from last month.
Financial Report
We have $2344 in the bank. We have $91 in memberships,
and we’ve spent $27. Also, Andy says we are now getting
our bank statements again.
* Andy will make a budget for the year.
Website
We want to promote Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH to our community, and give
value to members by encouraging local businesses to advertise their
computer graphics jobs through Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH jobs alias
(jobs@cascadesiggraph.org).
Andy recommends getting the ITT and Art Institute placement staff involved.
* Jeff and Demetra will look into getting the ITT and Art Institute
placement staff involved in using the jobs@cascadesiggraph.org job
posting alias.
Andy also proposed having an alias for resume@cascadesiggraph.org where
HR people could be notified of incoming resumes.
* Andy will set up the resume@cascadesiggraph.org alias.
Next Meeting
Our next Board meeting is TBD in late Feb / March 2007 in Portland.
Next Programming Committee Meeting
Our next Programming Committee Meeting will be in early/mid- March, 2007,
location TBD.
The meeting adjourned at 6:00pm.
Action Items
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Health Insurance
* Jeff will do more research about getting healthcare and send the
ACM link to Andy.
* Jeff will send Fran the health care link to add to the web page.
* Jeff will send email about health care to our members.
Banners
* Demetra still needs to connect with Michael about getting a banner
before the next meeting.
Volunteers
* Jeff will send out an email announcement to solicit volunteers.
The Junto
* Fran will send the link about The Junto to the Board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto#The_Questions
Events
Upcoming Events
Meeting Prep
* Fran will send a copy of the Meeting Checklist to the
Programming Committee.
* Fran will email Demetra the Speaker Contracts for use with our chapter.
February Meeting, Professor Mike Bailey from OSU
February 8, 2007
* Demetra will call the PCC and Mike Bailey to make arrangements
to push the meeting back to February 15th.
February Meeting, Sony Presents
February 27, 2007
* Jeff will talk to Sony to see if they can do a meeting in February.
March Meeting, BYOA (Bring Your Own Art)
March 29 or April 4th or 5th, 2007
* Demetra will speak with Michael to nail down the details of
the BYOA Event.
Website
* Jeff and Demetra will look into getting the ITT and Art Institute placement staff involved in using the jobs@cascadesiggraph.org job posting alias.
* Andy will set up the resume@cascadesiggraph.org alias.
Financial Report
* Andy will make a budget for the year.
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