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