Attendees:
Kotey, Travis, Lauren, Jake, John, Marc, Tyler, Luigi
Quick Bits & Reminders:
- Next meeting - 9/15 and 9/29
- Warehouse Fire Sale next Sunday, Sept 8
- MAGCon is October 18-20
- Staff perks
Agenda:
- Action item review
- Kotey: Making a new MIVS logo for us with the asset pack
- Lauren: Get with Marc and Jake about making sure we’re lined up for judge onboarding
- Lauren: Meet with Travis and Luigi about admin stuff
- John: Work on updating Discord channels to have one big bucket upon joining and then at-event channels. Talk to Nate to see how IA handles. In the meantime, move last years’ indies to alumni channel
- Submissions/Timeline Review
- Initiative check-in
- Staffing
- Staff cap
- Volunteers interested in pre-event work
- Judging
- Community spaces (IGDA / Colleges ) discussion
- Call for new topics
Notes:
- Action item review
- Kotey: Making a new MIVS logo for us with the asset pack
- DID IT - putting in the drive with other stuff
- Lauren: Get with Marc and Jake about making sure we’re lined up for judge onboarding
- Lauren: Meet with Travis and Luigi about admin stuff
- John: Work on updating Discord channels to have one big bucket upon joining and then at-event channels. Talk to Nate to see how IA handles. In the meantime, move last years’ indies to alumni channel
- On the to-do list within the next 2 weeks
- Submissions/Timeline Review
- Currently have 169 studios registered and 116 games submitted
- Lots that haven’t pushed the final ‘submit’ button
- Will send another final reminder email
- Extension was a mess. Let’s never do a holiday weekend or an extension ever again.
- If we do still want to do these soft closes, we’ll need to talk to Vicki about Reggie changes
- Still feel good about our current timeline, but will see how preflight goes
- Initiative check-in
- Light Towers - Lauren
- Socks has the plans and will be working on them if no one else is. If you’re feeling crafty, please help.
- Reggie Emails - Lauren
- Notion Cleanup - Lauren
- Process Documentation - Lauren
- Layouts - Luigi, Tyler, Lauren
- still no work from Beale yet on whether or not we can all expand into the Merch area
- bumped up the hotel out of block request form with another 10 rooms just in case
- Awards - John
- currently looking at supplies
- will need to order electronics over the next month or so. need new boards this week. Will ping Lauren when ready to order so we can use the Divvy.
- making 7 awards
- Discord - John, Travis
- On John’s to-do list over the next 2 weeks
- Indie Quiz - Luigi
- Copy of last year’s is in the drive
- Mixer - Luigi, Lauren
- Haven’t started thinking about it yet
- Atrium by the fountain sucked last year
- Suite mixer feels like a COVID mixer
- better if we end up with the larger hospitality suite that open to the atrium??
- there are unused conference rooms, but probably not the most useful compared to the suite
- still brainstorming this
- Social Media - Kotey, Marc
- Marc’s been doing great with the submission tweets
- Kotey ready to take over when we switch to acceptance
- Press Room - Travis, Lauren
- Travis writing a “rules of the press room” doc
- Volunteers - Travis, Lauren
- Staffing
- Staff cap
- Volunteers interested in pre-event work - yes to all in list for judging ask
- Mmy Bickers - Volunteered Super 2024
- Rick W - Sand Knight Dev, will double check with him. Expressed possible interest.
- Michael Overson - Volunteered 2023 and 2024. Created New MIVS App
- James Caskey - Them’s Fightin’ Herds animator
- Brandon Celetano - Volunteered Super 2024, Runs Too Many Games Indie Showcase
- yes for helping with Steam page specifically
- Judging - Jake, Marc, Lauren
- Judges
- If you know someone specific, ok to add
- Still a little light, but there was confusion from the wrong link spam. Reminder email will go out Mon or Tues
- Preflight
- Community spaces (IGDA / Colleges ) discussion
- Call for new topics - None