II. Blog update: Sheryll
Susan posted…
Some invites may be in spam folders.
Sheryll. Can use the blog to write updates. Tried to make it conversational. 3 example posts. If you think of any suggestions to change it, I think all people on it can change it. Also to organize… to talk without phone call.
E: tangible way for everyone to have notes.
Sheryll: can copy & paste mtg notes.
Susan: Blog basics? Tips? Hoping to use it for organizing so people could comment if they’re not on the calls. Useful for process issues.
E: has a blog used more as a diary. You can call or email if you have questions. You can vote on an item using the comments.
III. Flier update: E
E: Used what R.E. already had… made it more square. It’s not a final, looking for suggestions. Catering to whatever specific population.
Chico had seen another flier
E can put it on the blog.
Gustavo – one flier went out that to recruit people for the NCToH
Chico – colorful version w/ quitline number inside a rotary dial, “ignite change.”
Susan – it’s for the National LGBT Tobacco Control Network.
Please make suggestions on the blog by the next Wednesday.
Laura – submit comments and then let E use discretion to incorporate as many as you want. So we can email quickly.
E will send it back by the end of next week.
IV. Ball Planning:
a. Contacts in Minneapolis:
Shiney Shapiro, Program Manager, District 202. www.dist202.org. R.E. will ask to be on the next call.
Damien Hughes, House of Manolo Blahnik – Chico can contact. Will ask him to be on the next call.
Other houses? – Chico will find out
Minneapolis area drag troupes? - R.E. will ask about this.
Holly – heads the new youth tobacco free mvmt with blue cross blue shield. Will probably be heading all youth activities at the NCToH
Susan: thought we were having youth perform, not professionals. Create numbers while there.
R.E.: get seasoned performers to mentor?
Laura: not at a ball setting for learning…. People will show up if you set the categories. The houses will be able to help out. The youth will be prepared to perform.
Chico: main idea I tried to bring up is to have a mini-ball like that. Everything will be based about dealing with tobacco issues in the youth communities. More things catered to youth at this. Like a peep show.
Laura: helped host a mini-ball in D.C. for transgender women. Limited how many members over the age range could come. If wanting it to be a youth ball, this needs to be considered.
Chico: my experience, organizers usually adults. Used to be a house parent so could do a lot of organizing. Will think about categories & how to make this more youth friendly.
Laura: if not asking house parents to perform… might ask them to be judges. To give them a place of honor, but focus on under age 24.
Chico: will send out a copy of a category sheet from a ball.
b. Tobacco prevention / youth marketing related categories for performances
wait until next meeting when we’ve looked at category sheet.
c. Performers: drag, slam poetry, rap, badvertising…
In D.C. people do more open-mics that combine both. Would be difficult to incorporate both in a mini-ball.
Will be open to youth not attending the conference.
Susan: it’s a youth space… will District 202 allow adults?
R.E. will ask Shiney
April: what night?
Susan: whether we could tie the ball into another youth activity at the conference. Would mean that it would have to take place during the national conference, not the summit?
Laura: good question for house parents in the community.
National conference is 2 nights (wed & thurs).
When would we get more people?
Chico: trying to get scholarships for youth to come to summit, and hopefully for the conference.
Laura: need to make it so that youth on this committee could attend.
E: would be good to have non-LGBTI people come. Would be more respectful to find out what the performers would be comfortable. Would be better to have everyone going to both conferences come.
R.E.: Would be helpful to have folks from Minneapolis on the phone calls!
Chico: other clubs where members of houses frequent… to reach out to those folks.
Susan: We should also start planning for the Summit itself.
Will bring this to the blog.
V. How people can participate not on conference calls – blog
E: MySpace? Will set up a MySpace profile and a MySpace Group.
VI. Funding Update
Susan: We’re doing our best to get as much funding as we can. Advocating with a lot of places. It’s just a process.
April: Registration for the national conference scholarships are up:
www.tobaccocontrolconference.org/2007
link on scholarship program.
May 27 = deadline!
E’s putting a bunch of stuff up on the blog.
VII. Next Meeting: Wednesday, May 9 - 6:30 EST / 3:30 PST / 12:30 Hawaii
Phone number: 1-877-791-3294
Passcode: 77350
3 comments:
awesome minutes, but it feels like these will take up a lot of space, maybe we can find a way to cut them down, maybe just points and not whole conversations. just a thought. Thanks for taking these..
E
i love how the links just show up as working links!! hooray!
any suggestions on how to cut them back? should i just post an abbreviated version of the notes that i send out?
I would say just hit main points or what decisions were, or maybe that were still discussing.
You could post all of the minutes on your myspace and have a link also..
E
just a thought
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