2006-02-07

Funding for EFF speaker Jason Schultz

 * Jason Schultz said he could come around the end of March / beginning of April
 * Is Albert Chang really running Forum For Free Speech, and does he really exist?
 * Eric Loui is working on this

Cooper Grant

 * Are people interested in having webcomic artists do a panel / workshop for a Cooper grant?
 * If so, which webcomic artists?
 * Nelson likes Schlock Mercenary and has already informally invited the artist Howard Tayler over IRC, and Howard informally accepted. Howard does his webcomic full-time, and is a member of the interesting webcomic collective Blank Label Comics
 * Tim Burke said he could be the faculty sponsor
 * Eric Loui and Alex Benn are working on this

Local webcomic artist

 * Whether or not we do webcomics for the Cooper Grant, I've discovered that Brad Guigar, who does Evil Inc. and Courting Disaster, lives in the Philly area, and is therefore probably a cheap date. What do you think of getting him here?

Tim Burke suggested that we keep hammering on the MPAA for the rest of the semester... with that in mind, I bring you the next few agenda items:

Films of Fury

 * Co-sponsored event tentatively set for Thurs Feb 16... let's finalize that.
 * What exactly can we do at a co-sponsored event? Show this parody warning?

Anime club

 * Any progress? Ben Blonder?

SWIL

 * I'd still like to show Star Wars Revelations, which seems like it would play well at a SWIL co-sponsored event... any thoughts?

Town Crier project

 * Nelson will attempt to talk to SAO before today's meeting, see if they're interested at all

Record store protest

 * Wanna hit tower records this weekend? Perhaps try Sunday afternoon again?

Minutes
Presents--Nelson Pavlosky '06, Alex Benn '08, Miles Skorpen '09, David Pupkin '09, Eric Astor '09, Eric Loui '09, Lauren Stokes '09.

Cooper Grant and Webcomix

 * A webcomic panel/discussion for the Cooper Grant would be awesome...
 * Howard Tayler, Brad Guigar are some of our best prospects; we should probably get Guigar for this semester because he is a local artist; bigger names for the Cooper Grant?
 * We need to get a list of people to ask-- List of Cooper Grant webcomic artists-- EDIT THIS.

Clubs that show movies

 * Films of Fury wants to do a co-sponsored event on Thursday, February 16th; what is it?
 * We could do a five-minute talk before Films of Fury shows its movie.
 * Nelson would like to show the parody MPAA warning; everyone else agrees
 * Anime Club will keep showing things; most anime distribution companies don't care.
 * SWIL will keep showing movies but doesn't want attention called to it.
 * Nelson would like to show Star Wars Revelations because it is free and fun; David will e-mail SWIL about it.

Town Crier

 * Nelson is interested in working with SAO on this project; it is moving ahead slowly.

Record Store Protest

 * Tentative date of this Sunday; hit Tower Records on South Street with our anti-DRM propaganda.
 * What is our copy code? Alex will ask David Chudzicki about it tomorrow.