Outreach Committee Meeting - October 19th, 2022

Outreach Committee Meetings
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Meeting Info

Wednesday, October 19^th · 7:30 – 8:30pm

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Video call link: https://meet.google.com/tkp-kgvm-tnw

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Attendees

Kostas Perentesis, Jack Margeson, John Clark, Ryan Anderson, Lisa Crump

Agenda

• MiC Recap
  • What did we do well? What do we need to work on? Plans for the future?
• BLINK Recap
  • What did we do well? What do we need to work on? Plans for the future?
  • RYAN A. IS THE MVP HERE.
• iSpace Recap
  • What did we do well? What do we need to work on? Plans for the future?
• Merch
  • Creating an online store on a MTO website for logo merch
    • Potential sites: Big Cartel, Redbubble, Zazzle
  • Reaching out to local printers for fun, one-off merch
    • Suggestions?
• Looking to the end of the year
  • For next meeting, please send Kostas P. what you think outreach should focus on next year via Slack.
    • Responses will be compiled and discussed so we can see where we're going.

New To-Do List

Jack

• Look into made-to-order sites for general logo merch for the Hive

Kostas

• Talk to Camp Washington Printers about one-off merch drops

Everyone

• Keep thinking about the next Blink entry
• Message Kostas/Outreach on Slack about where you want the Hive to be in 2023!

Notes

Happy penultimate outreach meeting!

• No big events left, let's work on getting some merch ideas finalized

Made in Camp

• Presence in the parking lot helped people get engaged in the activities
• We should do more stuff for Made in Camp in the parking lot in the future
• Is there anything that we could do to help advertise Made in Camp?
  • Push more information to the socials
  • Use some of the Wavepool provided social assets
  • Historically, Wavepool has been not amazing at promoting the event, and this year seems to be a repeat of history
  • Presenting marketing as cross-promotion would help Wavepool and also our attendance
• The people who we did get did have a great engagement with the Hive, though
• Can we look into a slightly shorter waiver to fill out for tours? Is that legally possible?
  • Look into iterating over that when we do digital forms with Tendenci

Blink

• Parade interest meeting was chaotic on Blink's part
• Parade itself went very well
  • In the future, we could have our banner in the front to make sure that we're representing the Hive correctly
  • The news butchered the read and called us a "school", but whatever...
• Small ideas for next year
  • For an installation:
    • LED cube
    • Giant game of Pong
    • Huge (computer) light keyboard
    • Wall of eyes that tracks you as you pass
    • More fun, less corporate shit!
  • For a parade idea:
    • LED wire bees for everyone to walk with, giant beehive
• Post-parade survey
  • Half the questions were promoting Ish really, which was weird feeling

Learn to Solder

• Waivers were a pain in the ass to fill out, especially when parents had multiple children
  • Could be sorted with the online Tendenci forms
• Do we need an age limit for Learn to Solder?
  • Three things we should check for:
    • Do they understand what we're telling them?
    • Are they listening to instructions?
    • Can they communicate affirmations of your instruction?
• Hooray for no injuries!
  • Let's make sure that we bring a burn first aid kit next time, just in case
• Future Learn to Solder events
  • Please, let's re-establish the connection with Union Terminal
• BUCKET CLEANOUT is in order for Learn to Solder

Merch (link in bio)

• Deal with DIY Printing has fallen through
• Looking into Made-to-order sites like Big Cartel, Redbubble, Zazzle -- Jack
• Kostas--email Camp Washington Printing Company to see about pricing and stuff