Board of Directors Meeting
3 October, 2012
Meeting called to order at 1:58pm CDT and adjourned at 2:37pm CDT.
Board Members in Attendance
Attended by Jay, Jared, Sheri, Neal, and Heather via Skype.
Absent board members: none.
Agenda
North Star
Make Chicago a game development mecca by bolstering the community: bringing people together, promoting community events, helping game developers make better games, and bringing up the nascent indie community in Chicago.
To Keep in Mind
Community outreach with local schools, press, investors, other professionals
Bringing in Money: Paid events, event sponsorships, organization sponsorships
Bringing in a speaker
Increasing our volunteer base
Old Business
Next Power Dinner
“Why Live in Chicago” website page
New Business
Chicago Game Jam Post-Mortem
Chicago “Summer of Arcade” Post-Mortem
October Event – Scholarships Presentation (Heather)
November Event – Paid
December Event – Holiday Party (Jared)
Workshops
Updates
Jay
Sheri
Heather
Jared
Neal
Meeting Notes
Next Power Dinner
Planning next power dinner, in progress.
“Why Live in Chicago” website
Page in progress. (Jay is on it, will ask for help writing it up)
Chicago Game Jam Post-Mortem
The Game Jam went awesome! The judges were impressed by the quality of the games! Write-up coming soon.
Summer of Arcade
Summer of Arcade event went very well, too. Tons of great feedback!
October Event
Reaching out to volunteers for promotion, promoting to schools.
November Event
Planning in progress.
December Event
Networking/social event.
Workshops
Workshops were suggested: encouraging groups/individuals to hold workshops that we would help publicize and market
we have the precedent on this from Keith Fuller having previously come in for a Project Management workshop the chapter endorsed.
another chapter did an Unreal workshop, so we could consider doing topic-specific workshops as well