Cascade SIGGRAPH Board Meeting
November 10, 2006
 
Minutes by Fran Zandonella
Please send all corrections to Fran Z.
 
 
Location
Beau Thai, 730 NW 21st Ave., in Portland
Time: 1:00p - 2:00 pm
 
 
Attendees
Jeff Borg, Demetra Gilmore Arnett, Fran Zandonella, Andrew Dennis, 
Herc Silverstein, Michael Smith.
 
 
Minutes
Minutes from August (8/17/06), September (9/7/06), and 
October (10/20/06) have not been approved.
 
 
Old Business
 
Health Insurance
Andrew hasn’t had the chance to look into it yet.
* Andrew will look into the Health Insurance issue.
 
 
Banners
We’d like to have a banner that fits under a table. 
* Demetra will send the banner layout file to Michael. 
She will coordinate with him on the format needed.
 
 
Volunteers
We need volunteers!! We need a volunteer coordinator!
 
* Fran will write up descriptions for webmaster and membership
positions and send it to Jeff & the Board.
 
* Everyone needs to get their volunteer list to Jeff.
 
 
 
New Business
None.
 
Committee Reports
Events
 
General Event Info
We generated some ideas for future raffles – pre-registration
gets you a raffle ticket, and a person can pay extra for extra
tickets.
* Demetra will send Andy an example of a user interface for
pre-registration.
 
 
 
New SIGGRAPH Chapter in Corvalis?
At the November Event, Jeff met some people who would like to 
do an event in Corvalis. They have connections with one of
their professors who may be able to give a presentation.
* Jeff will find out who the people in Corvalis know for 
presentations.
* Michael will contact the Corvalis people about having them
host a BYOA meeting in Corvalis.
 
 
Past Event
November Meeting (was October), AutoDesk Tour 
(presented by 3DV), November 1, 2006
Producer: Chris Hale
 
Thank you, Chris, for all your hard work!
 
We had 140 people attend this event.
The cost of the meeting was free (paid by Autodesk).
We got 8 new memberships. We had 3 renewals. 
We had at least 22 members show up. (It was hard to tell
because so many people showed up at once.)
 
We didn’t have a pre-Event slideshow for this event because
Autodesk had one. However, we do want to have them for other
events. They are easy to put together.
 
The venue was wonderful, though expensive. (Note, we didn’t pay
for it.) The place was packed, and there was a lot of food.
 
We had a raffle and gave away 2 one gigabyte flash drives.
 
Wacom was there, and they have offered to come to a new event.
They are willing to donate a tablet for a future raffle.
 
* Demetra needs a volunteer to enter some information from cards.
 
 
Upcoming Events
 
 
November Meeting, Social with IXDA / CHIFOO / SIGGRAPH / ASIFA, 
November 20, 2006 5:30pm
Lucky Lab in NW Portland
Producer: Will Palumbo
 
The date for this meeting is November 20th at the Lucky Lab at 5:30pm.
The other groups have been invited. We discussed possible network topics.
* Demetra will send out an announcement ASAP.
 
 
December Meeting – No meeting planned (due to Holidays)
 
January Meeting, CG Social w/Showing the 
Space-Time Animation Competition, or Game Studio?
January TBD, 2007
Producer: Kristen
 
We need to set a date for the CG Social meeting. We discussed 
possible locations for this meeting. Maybe at Zaytoon’s? If 
we could rent the upstairs, we might be able to request it to 
be all non-smoking.
 
This CG Social requires a screen for showing the animation.
 
We might also hold another meeting late in the month. This
will be discussed at the Programming Meeting.
 
 
February Meeting, Sony Presents
February TBD, 2007
Producer: Patrick Coan
 
SESI might be interested in sponsoring this meeting.
Fran made a contact with a sales rep there.
 
We might tie in some job resume review promotions.
 
The LA Chapter is having a Sony meeting for their
November meeting.
 
 
Ideas for Upcoming Meetings
Ken Perlin, Professor at NYU Media Research Lab
Nothing to report. Possible January or Spring meeting.
 
Tom Miller
Demetra has a connection to artist and CG Pioneer 
Tom Miller. She will be seeing him this winter.
 
Traveling Art Show (TAS)
Producer: Ann M. & Genny Orr
 
Nothing discussed about this at this meeting.
 
CG Pioneer Meeting
We discussed having a CG Pioneer speak at a meeting. One of our members
(Russell?) is an “old timer” that we should tap for a future meeting.
 
Jeff said that he gave a presentation somewhere recently. We should
talk to him about presenting, and consider asking him to fill any voids
in the schedule, especially short-term ones (because he is local).
 
* Jeff will see if he can find out the name of our local CG Pioneer.
 
 
Membership
We now have 84 members. Fran still needs to process the new
memberships from the November meeting. Renewals for this month
have gone out.
 
 
Financial Report
We made $164.00 at the November 1 meeting.
The November meeting expenses were $0.
 
Andy hasn’t gotten the bank statement for November yet.
(It is late.)
* Andy will email the board with the November bank balance.
 
Andy declares that we now have enough money to fly out a speaker.
 
* Andy will make a budget for the year.
 
 
Website
Fran says, “We need to get a webmaster ASAP!”
* Fran will write up a description and send it to the Board.
 
We want to load samples of local artist work onto our website.
 
* Everyone still needs to put their web requirements on the wiki.
 
 
Next Meeting
Our next proposed meeting is December 15, 2006 at 12:30 pm, 
Acapulco's Gold, 2610 NW Vaughn St, in Portland
 
The meeting adjourned at 2:00pm.
 

Action Items
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Health Insurance
* Andrew will look into the Health Insurance issue.
 
 
Banners
* Demetra will send the banner layout file to Michael. 
She will coordinate with him on the format needed.
 
 
Volunteers
* Fran will write up descriptions for webmaster and membership
positions and send it to Jeff & the Board.
 
* Everyone needs to get their volunteer list to Jeff.
 
 
Events
 
New SIGGRAPH Chapter in Corvalis?
* Jeff will find out who the people in Corvalis know for 
presentations.
* Michael will contact the Corvalis people about having them
host a BYOA meeting in Corvalis.
 
 
Past Event
November Meeting (was October), AutoDesk Tour 
(presented by 3DV), November 1, 2006
* Demetra needs a volunteer to enter some information from cards.
 
Upcoming Events
November Meeting, Social with IXDA / CHIFOO / SIGGRAPH / ASIFA, 
November 20, 2006 5:30pm
Lucky Lab in NW Portland
* Demetra will send out the meeting announcement ASAP.
 
CG Pioneer Meeting
* Jeff will see if he can find out the name of our local CG Pioneer.
 
 
Website
* Fran will write up a description and send it to the Board.
* Everyone still needs to put their web requirements on the wiki.
 
 
Financial Report
* Andy will email the board with the November bank balance.
* Andy will make a budget for the year.