Board of Directors Meeting
6 June, 2013
Meeting called to order at pm 11:58pm CDT and adjourned at 12:59pm CDT.
Board Members in Attendance
Attended by Neal, Sheri, and Heather via Skype voice.
Absent board members: none
Agenda
Board Status
John and Brenda Event
IGDA Midwest Symposium
Upcoming Events
July
August
Meeting Notes
Board Status
We need to appoint at least one new board member and determine the new chair.
Brenda and John Event
Flashpoint
28 NORTH CLARK STREET, SUITE 500, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60602
Pricing
$20 at the door
$15 regular
$10 early bird
IGDA member 50% off
Heather will set up Eventbrite
IGDA Midwest Symposium
report from each IGDA Chapter or representative
Ouya/Wideload, C2E2, game night tournament, upcoming Brenda and John and more to come this summer. Consistently valuable programming to our audience.
Promoting local games on the site, as well as keeping up our blog and newsletter to keep the community engaged
Brief synopsis from each of us of what we would like to do to improve our local chapter
We’d like to plan events out further in advance
Continue to grow our volunteer base
Upcoming Events
July
Game tournament envision by Zax Pearson late July or in August
August
Ideas
Picnic / Social Board Game thing?
Email Exec list and see who is shipping games and might want to do a postmortem
Find a place to do Skype talks with remote speaker, do an informal poll to see what speakers people want to see
September / October
Chicago Game Jam
Sponsors?
Volunteers
reach out to people who consistency attend our jams and see if they want to help plan
General
Discipline-focused talks or panels
Event promoting the DIY game class David and Jay are teaching (student focus)
Power Dinners?
We’ll resume Power Dinners once we have the board re-established