2005-04-05

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Minutes

Attendance: David German '08, Anthony Manfredi '08, Andrew Lacey '05, David Benitez '06, Alex Benn '08, Nelson Pavlosky '06, Lisa Benson '08, Ben Blonder '08

Cooper Grant

• Luke, who has most of the information, isn't here
• apparently we've secured some sort of grant, on the condition we get more of a performance

Swarthmore Fun Fair

• we still don't know why anyone participates

Open Access

• Lisa is still trying to arrange a meeting with Peggy Seiden

Long Term Plan

• Alex will turn our bullet-point list into a document

LAN Party

• Prop
  • Ben and Andrew have designed a cryptic website, and signs for the first round of prop
  • http://scdc.sccs.swarthmore.edu/oneyear/

• SAC
  • SAC wants a line-item list of proposed expenditures
  • there may not even be SAC money left at all, because they're funding lots of big end-of-year events
  • Emily Nolte will check to see whether we're conflicting with other events

• Tech
  • Andrew will ferry people's desktops, we'll have a web form or publish his cell # for scheduling pickups
  • TVs will be borrowed from some part of the college
    • David B. will ask engineering department
    • Anthony M. will ask Media Services

• Fun
  • you-be-the-DJ, as at Free Culture Fest party
  • DDR (borrow from Blake)
  • multicolored lights
  • Halo tournament with 4-man teams, prize: pizza + creative commons shirt

• Lisa will arrange a cake from sharples

Ride the Tide

• Schedule of events is not yet online
• of course, we'll be tabling at the activities fair
• is there any other sort of event we could do?
  • have a discussion-oriented meeting with food on Thursday night
  • show http://lessig.org/freeculture, http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/getcreative/ flash videos
  • get it on the schedule Admissions publishes

Budget

• Photocopying: asked for $42, got $25
• Food: asked for $100, $40
• Group-owned supplies: asked for $110, got $70 for blank CDs
  • the other $40 for chalk and bulletin-board decorations was denied
  • we can get that stuff from Wharton Group Space, supposedly
  • Anthony says that space is a mess, smells bad, full of other groups' stuff, difficult to find anything useful
• Speakers and movies: asked for $600, got $10 (SBC doesn't actually fund speakers)
• Grand total: $145

National Conference Call

• Alex recommends that anyone interested in the national organization attend at least one
• The next is Sunday at 3 pm, David B. will attend
• The national IRC channel is #freeculture on freenode