[wplug-board] Blender event update

Joseph Prostko joe.prostko at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 10:12:03 EDT 2014


Sounds great to me!  Thanks for doing all of the legwork on this.  I
suppose once we get a thumbs-up from the rest of the board, we should start
the promotion process.

- joe
On Apr 26, 2014 10:01 AM, "Justin Smith" <justin at adminix.net> wrote:

>  Hi, everyone. Here's an update on our plans for the Blender event at
> next month.
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> The spring semester classes at Pittsburgh Filmmakers end on Tuesday, April
> 29. After that, there will be a short break, and then summer semester
> classes will begin on Thursday, May 8. Since we have fewer classes during
> the summer, we can expect fewer students to be around.
>
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>
> On the other hand, this means that more professors will be able to attend,
> and we will have greater flexibility in choosing a meeting room. Turnout
> should still be considerably larger than the average WPLUG event.
>
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> I sent some basic information about the event to our registrar and asked
> her to pass it on to the faculty. The feedback so far has been very
> positive. People I never expected to respond have said that they're excited
> about hearing Roland's presentation, and our executive director, Charlie
> Humphrey, thinks it's a smart thing to do.
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> Based on that, I think we have all the support necessary to move forward.
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> Monday seems to be the "best" day of the week during summer, so I suggest
> holding the meeting on Monday, May 19. We'll have a couple of weeks to
> promote it, and we won't be interfering with people's plans for Memorial
> Day. We could start serving food at either 5:00 or 5:30 and start the event
> at 6:00 or 6:30.
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> How does that sound?
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>
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> Justin Smith
>
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>
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