Archive:Board Meeting 04-27-2008

=Attendance=
 * Kevin, Christina, Fred, Elizabeth

=National Conference=
 * Picked a date: October Friday 10th -> Monday the 13th 2008
 * Main day will be on Saturday
 * Social Activities / etc. on Friday
 * Sunday workshops / etc.

Where

 * Optimally West coast.
 * Probably San Francisco
 * Local Students
 * SF
 * Berekely
 * Reach out to department heads
 * Talk to Mozilla Foundation
 * Sponsors, etc.
 * Draft solicit e-mail
 * Berkeley, USC.

How

 * Organize care package things to be at conference.
 * Usual round of suspects
 * Berkman
 * Keep looking
 * Press freedom / ACLU / type orgs

Funding

 * Fred investigate leads with his friends :)
 * Elizabeth will do so as well
 * SEF Japan friends
 * Tenative budget of ~$30k, covering:
 * Travel and accomodations
 * Soliciting students who need to come
 * Figuring criteria

Framing

 * Priority given to students
 * Reenforcing the global community of students for free culture activists
 * Learning about activism as a practice
 * Learning how to run clubs
 * Goal of 100 heads

=Incorporation=
 * 1) File
 * 2) E-mail update to chapters / discuss
 * 3) *How the remainder of drafted ByLaws will become internal policy
 * 4) *Diane Cabell is helping us.
 * 5) Bank Account
 * 6) *Elizabeth and Fred will do it in the next week or two
 * 7) 501(c)3
 * 8) *From this point forward we will be able to seek funding for the conference.
 * 9) *Intent to file, etc.