The Latest: Details from the Potluck & More.

Hey AIGA,

The potluck was great! Even on a rainy night after a long day, we had a pretty good turn out. Let's do again really soon! Thanks again Jeff, for the use of your place. Also, thanks to Frank and Barbara for coming after teaching all day!

Those of you who couldn't make it - no worries! It was pretty laid back, the idea was not to discuss business too much - but we did talk about a few things.

Here is the latest:

• First on the agenda was.......eating.
  
  
• Secondly, Jeff let us know that he will be going in to get us put on the ballot for AS Revenue Sharing (giving us a chance to get some money!) so let's remember to vote on that when the time comes!
  
  
• A few of us expressed interest in attending a meeting for the AS Sustainability Project, to see if we would like to make a proposal for next semester. Some ideas for proposals were discussed, but the general consensus was that our first step is attending the meeting on March 3rd in BMU 511 from 4-5. Send me an email if you want to go. There are no commitments at this point, we're just attending a meeting. They have $5000.00 for each new project, so it can't hurt to check it out.
  
  
• We also discussed AIGA membership a bit. We are very close to activating the accounts from last semester. A few people who joined in fall still haven't gone to my.aiga.org to sign up for a free account to start the process. Please do that ASAP. If you want to join this semester, we are in the process of finding out if we can add more people at the group rate of $50. We'll know soon! Benefits include access to members only content on aiga.org - which includes job postings and all kinds of good stuff.
  
  
• Our first design contest is going to be our T-shirt design! Start brainstorming on those. Official design specs and the due-date will be posted here in the next few days.
  
  
• Finally, we elected our primary officers. There are more positions to be discussed and filled! The current officers are as follows:

President - Tim O'Meara
Co. Vice Presidents - Amanda Ashcenbrener and Josh Dempsey
Treasurer - Linsday Chedester
Secretary - Taylor Hess

There are a few people we have appointed for other things like our co-photographers and our PR manager, but we're going to hold off until next time to make those official.

We still need help with a variety of things. Please let somebody know if you have an idea for an office, or want to run for one we have already discussed.

• Also - Who wants to go to Sacramento on March 19th for a free Lecture by graphic artist Hugh Dubberly? I think I'll be going (by the way, any "I" in these blogs are Tim, lol) but I can only take one person in my little truck with me. Anybody else want to go? If a couple people do, maybe we can use somebodies vehicle and split gas! Let me know.
  
  Our next meeting is on Tuesday, March 9th.

That should be all for now! Did anything get left out? - timomeara@hotmail.com

Have an awesome weekend.

Potluck is at Jeff's House! Here's the map!

Hey Guys,

Hope the weekend is going good.

We've decided to have the potlock next tuesday (the 23rd) at 8pm over at Jeff's house on Pillsbury Road, which is over by Tinseltown Theater and Trader Joes.

The Address is 2584 Pillsbury Road.

Click here to view the map.

We're just going to chill, mostly - come hang out! If you need a ride, or just don't want to drive, let somebody know. Post something on facebook if you want to car pool!

(Don't forget to post what you're bringing also!)

Important Meeting Stuff + projects, potluck and officers!

Hey Everybody. Click the title of any email you get, to go directly to the blog site - the posts read better there!

Thanks for coming to the meeting last night. Good turn out! We've definitely got enough people to get some great stuff going.

Please join the facebook group!
It will be great to use that as a place to post ideas and just any design related stuff for AIGA. We will have that up to date soon, but join now!

You can also post some comments at the bottom of this post on the blog site by clicking the comments link. If you don't have a google account, select the "name/url" option from the drop down menu.

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Our Next Meeting (POTLUCK!) will be held on Tuesday the 23rd. Location: TBA - Will post as soon as we've got a place!

IMPORTANT: Go to the facebook page and post what you will be bringing for the potluck. Like Frank said, we don't want to end up with 25 bags of chips...LOL
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Important Details From Tuesday's Meeting

Ok, first thing - Click Here to view the "How to run a successful student group" page for some really cool ideas on how we should run our club. This is a WE thing. We're all in charge.

Some officer ideas could be...
Twitter...Person, Environmental Liaison (Keeping us in line environmentally,) New Member Recruiter..... any other ideas?

Offices already on our ballot (VOTE NEXT MEETING)

• President - (1) person running so far
• Secretary - (2) people running so far
• Facebook Monitor - (1) person running so far
• Public Relations Manager - (1) person running so far
  

Please feel free to run for any of these positions or suggest a new one!

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Upcoming Projects/Events

• (1) First Design Contest
  We've already decided that monthly design contests are a good idea - so for our first one, we will be drawing two random words out of a hat for our theme. Come to the potluck for our first one! You could design anything from a logo or brand, to a poster or even mock up a spread or web layout! We should have room for all the work either in the cases in the hallway or on the bulletin boards.
  
  Oh yes, there WILL be prizes.
  
  
• (2) Environmental Proposal (and creating a team for it!)
  Barbara brought up a great idea at the last meeting. Let's create a team, or teams, to make a proposal to AS for an environmental project that will benefit our campus and the world. They've got lots of money to give for these projects! We could design the materials for the proposal, and maybe some mock designs for future promotion. We've got the manditory workshop dates to look at at the next meeting.

Possible Future Event
PORTFOLIO REVIEW PEOPLE! There is an idea on the table for a Pre-Portfolio Workshop, where students who have passed the review can work one-on-one with you to talk about the review and the process! Those of you who haven't gone through the review, please let someone know soon so we can coordinate this event.

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That's all for now, this blog can't get too long. If you have any questions PLEASE post them on the facebook page or comment on this post on the blog site.

Thanks so much, this will be a really fun semester.

AIGA: 2010 - Spring Meeting Details

Hey Everybody,

If you don't know, it's Tim from AIGA, and this blog is our primary way of reaching members, advisers, and anyone else interested in our Student Group here on campus.

It's time to start meeting again!
(Or, for the first time, if you would like to join!)

This semester, AIGA is going to be a little bit different.

• First of all, our President and fearless leader Katelyn Hampton will be stepping down. We thank her for all her help and a great job.
  
  - So we will be needing to elect a new President. Since I'm reorganizing things, I'd like to run for the position. It will certainly be put to a vote at our first meeting.



• Secondly, as things stand now, I'd like to get communication more open through this blog, email and facebook. In other words, we don't have to just talk about things at meetings. Let's discuss plans and ideas whenever we want to online, and then put our ideas into action at our official meetings.

Aside from our change in offices, what would you like to see this semester?

• I'm going to suggest meetings every other week, (exact days and times to be decided by vote) + official and unofficial get-togethers at least once a month, and at least one good, solid, trip. All that means fund-raising, so we need to discuss that too!

It seems that the way to keep us rolling and having fun is just by simply hanging out! We can discuss that more at our first meeting, and we do have our event planners, Jeff and Dustin, to organize any events and/or trips we might plan, assuming they can remain in that office this semester.

So how about we have our FIRST MEETING on Tuesday, February 9th at 7pm?

How does that sound for everybody? Please respond to this email, or comment on the blog site if you have a conflict -- or if you want to start making suggestions for our group. (A good plan would be to bring those for our first meeting)

I will work on getting us a room for it.

Thanks,
We'll see you soon.