2006-04-04

=Agenda=

Ride The Tide

 * We need to get our proposal submitted by Thursday, April 6. Given our talent at meeting deadlines, we should finish it during the meeting, just to be safe.
 * It's called the Re-Mixer! How exactly are we going to re-mix?
 * audio? Garageband?  Audacity?
 * Video? Muvee Autoproducer?  iMovie?

Summit
FUNDING!
 * How much do we have?
 * $900 from FFS
 * $100 from Film Studies
 * How much do we need?
 * about $260 more for Derek
 * ?? $$ more for Lessig
 * Funding proposal for Parrrrty!
 * Money for FOOD for people

PROPPING!
 * How are we doing?

KICKING ASS!
 * Who else do we want to bring?

Members
We need more people to show up! How? How can we bring in new members? We have not been good at teaching newbies about free culture. Putting them to work right away is probably not the best way to do it :-P
 * More video game playing in the video pit?
 * More food?
 * Watching fun and education short films before getting to work?
 * Discussing relevant news items?

=Minutes=

Attendance: Nelson Pavlosky '06, David Benitez '0something, Miles Skorpen '09, Eric Loui '09, Eric Astor '09, Alex Benn '08

Ride the Tide

 * Proposal is due Thursday!
 * so we're doing it at the end of the meeting
 * Idea: buy a bunch of plastic cups in bulk, return the remainder to SAC
 * extend this to other things SAC buys? - suggest it to them!
 * Remixer - so how do we remix?
 * Eric Astor WILL bug Rob!
 * What do we need to remix?
 * Computers:
 * Mac: Nelson's laptop, possibly Miles - total count 2
 * PC: Miles tablet, Eric A's desktop, potentially Eric L's pizzabox - total count 2
 * Gear:
 * Eric & Benitez is bringing power strips
 * We need to buy CDs with all that money we have!
 * Videos:
 * CC licensed ideally

Summit
We put the "fun" in funding!

Have:

 * $900 - FFS
 * $100 - Film Studies
 * $200??? - library - need to bug

Need:

 * $260 - Derek Slater
 * $???? for Lessig
 * SAC Proposal for Parrrty

Talking to people

 * Eldridge
 * Burke / History Dept. head Pieter Judson
 * Pitch "history of copyright" deal
 * Loui is trying
 * Econ dept?
 * Not really - none of these speakers would appeal
 * PoliSci?
 * we are bringing lawyers and stuff
 * policy issues - copyright, trademark, patent law, EULAs
 * Miles is trying
 * Nat Anderson from the English dept.
 * Recommended by Peggy Seiden

EVERYONE SHOULD REGISTER!

SAC proposal
Projector: Pirate stuff:
 * Alex is in charge
 * Eric Loui involved?
 * ask for the big one ($500), and fall back on the smaller one if that doesn't work
 * New Yorkers are coming in full pirate regalia
 * we should budget for more stuff
 * Pirate flag?
 * Miles says he knows someone with one

Reserving Rooms

 * We have Hicks Mural Room
 * We have SCI 104 (?) for Saturday
 * Rooms we should look into reserving:
 * SCI 183 - closer to Hicks
 * Trotter 201 or some Kohlberg computer lab

Scheduling

 * Meeting on Thursday at 4:15 PM with Tim Burke and librarians
 * We need to hammer out a plan for Saturday

Friday - Speakers

 * Lessig
 * add to this

Saturday - Workshops

 * Librarians
 * add to this

Food?

 * We should cater Friday night food
 * est. budget: $280-560 for 70 people x $4-8/person

Membership

 * Meetings are boring and lame
 * we used to have lots of members who had stuff 7-10 PM
 * membership changed
 * don't anymore
 * How can we get our friends to come to the Summit?

Budgeting Meeting

 * Meeting will occur on Sunday, April 9th, at 5:20 PM
 * Eric Astor will back Alex Benn with this