Meeting Minutes

President: (Doug)

• Get out the Vote Poster // released soon
• membership roundtable // should have it by May 1.

Blueridge has not had a roundtable in several years. Is this something we want to do?

• 365 Submissions due March 7
• Participation in Design Legends Gala (Blueridge doesn't have budget to participate)

Treasurer: (jamey)

• total: $2468.52
• Student: Scholarship $500
• available funds: $1968.52

VP: (Troy)
>> Basecamp is up and running, troy sent out invite for group to review
>> 24 hours of charity design (working with Jamey)

• cannot call it create-a-thon, need new name
• proposals to come from non-profits in October
• maybe not a 24 hour deal, but it may run over 1-3 days
• jobs need to be set up before, willing to accept 5-10 jobs
• need to set up job parameters, but will meet with clients ahead of time
• need to contact local press, create a press release, get more firms involved
• must have reception to follow to show finished work
• Jamey and Troy to meet soon to set up event

Events:
--Hasaan Brown to speak about SEO in May (troy to discuss date with Hasaan)

• we need to set up a venue (Delaplaine??)

--Brewery Date :: June 14th

--Courtney (Alive @ Five) decided on August 14th

--event for September // Cecilia suggested lunch round-table //Center for practice mgmt


Membership: (cecilia)
>> March 20th EU event all set.
• It will be about 1 hour on variable data with about 30 minutes for question & answer
• Cecelia to create art for event

Sponsporship: (Jared)??

• Sponsorship Opportunities // Use San Diego piece as example
• Add a sponsors hip page to website
• "preferred provider" vendors can pay $50 or $100 to be listed.
• a portion of the sponsorship will go to our student scholarship fund

Communications: (Kristina)

• Troy & Kristina met to discuss web stuff

Education: (KK)

• no scholarship yet --(no time to write up content) Will try to have something by the end of the week.
• received Bootcamp stuff in the mail. They are counting on Design Army as a PM guest speaker. All reviews will take place in the morning. We still should get art from GFAF so we can post on web. I believe the website is suppose to be up this week (2/11)
• Need to start planning for Flux in the fall, Chris and Kristin to look at Delaplaine

Alumni Representative -- Matt Long ??

• Group discussed an event called "Now What" for recent grads to participate

Preferred Providers and other Sponsorship Questions

What do we think the cost should be to display a company's name on the "Preferred Providers" page on the BlueRidge website, $50 or $100? I was thinking we would do this for them for a year. Should we expect the website to be changed to reflect this addition before the next board meeting? Maybe after?

Also, we discussed this at the last board meeting, what percentage should go to the scholarship fund?

My recommendation would be to charge $100 for the year with maybe 10-20% going into the scholarship fund. Basically we would say "A portion of your donation will go toward the AIGA Student Scholarship Fund". Anyone have any thoughts on this? I won't be at the next board meeting, so I hope we can discuss it a little here.

JP