Attendees: Nate, Socks, Matt, Lauren, Becca

Discussion:

• Curation
  • 177 studios, 21 IA games, 77 mivs
    • last year IA had 10 in the extension - if we’re not extending this year, we really need to pump up outreach to get submissions
    • how to amplify outreach - becca says Megacat can boost as well
    • MIVS had 20 in the extension last year too -
    • next year:
      • is the lesson that we need to build in a planned extension?
      • we need to be more explicit that WIP is allowed (ia)
  • Judging/admin screens are not ready, back and forth is happening with Raven, Raven understands the deadline is Sept 2
    • Matt is ready to dump all content into a spreadsheet as a nuclear option
  • Retro submission form
    • form draft is available, sending back a couple line edits
    • can we get Becca into the test environment to play with the form? Or we can demo the mivs studio + judge side as an example
  • Matt needs to meet with curation folks to talk process when judging starts
• Finance
  • see guests
• Layout
  • Do we have space in the hall for a QJ?
  • Little Steve from Charity has given us first right of refusal for the arcade-side airwall
    • unified indies merch could go here, or booths could go here and merch could go where LTC used to be
  • Retro would love to not be on the airwall again
• Initiative teams
  • Documentation / dev handbooks -
    • do we want to unify this into a master one, and use that to build 3 separate smaller ones for devs that are ia/mivs/ir specific?
  • MAGzine -
    • Socks to take a pass at some copy about “introducing Indies @ MAG”
    • also a blurb about Jam stuff
    • 1/2 page of both - filling 1 page total
  • Game Jam -
    • itch page is live
    • social media blast ready after submissions close
  • Beautification -
    • we hit dave with the budget - if they have a different beautification plan, we need to approve swapping from light towers to the new thing (budget)
  • Website -
    • they’re migrating to a new thing, should we have them migrate us 1-to-1
      • yes
      • then we’ll make changes postmigration with the website team
• Other Business
  • Guests - Robin wants to come back! He will have 2 QJs in the US next year and 1 should be free for magfest. Do we have the $$$? 🤑
    • guests has money for robin via interactive exhibit money
    • we’ll still have our earmarked money for domestic guest
• Next Meetings:
  • Heads - 9/9 @ 6
  • MIVS - 8/31 @ 7
  • IA - 9/2 @ 7
  • Retro - internal to MCS
• Sage wisdom: Always tenderize the sausage a bit before you chuck it in the pan so it breaks up evenly and you know it will cook evenly.

Action Items:

• Matt - schedule call for experimental games with Travis, Lauren, Flan, etc
• Nate - schedule meeting with Blueberry, Lauren, Flan/Frank about making sure we outline our merch plan sustainably
• Matt - hit up the outreach folx to boost submissions we pray
• Socks/social media - send posts to becca for retro to boost on socials
• Matt - send Nate copy to email to the hubspot mailing list
• Matt - @ everyone in discord
• Nate - QJ wants to come back - talk to beale + deb, can we put it in the same place
• Nate - QJ wants to come back, talk to guests about money