<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">- joe</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Hi, everyone. Here's an update on our plans for the Blender event at next month.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">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. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">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.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">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.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Based on that, I think we have all the support necessary to move forward.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">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. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">How does that sound?</p>
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