Hello and welcome to yet another episode of Webster Siggraph. This past week there were tons of new and exciting things that went down. For all of you thousands of readers out there that missed the glorious meeting, I’ll sum it up for you.
First order of business, Leah Bend stepped down from her position as our president and there was many “aww”s and somebody in the back wept… but we had to fill her position and Amanda Walker stood in to take over as Webster Siggraph’s president. Congratulations to Amanda and Leah, hopefully now you have time to actually sleep.
In other news, Amanda Walker is back from Thailand!
After that election, the competitive position of Treasurer opened up and Melissa fought her way through the crowds to become our present Treasurer. Congratulations to Melissa! Give her a round of applause… literally.
At that point in time the ACM Siggraph convention was brought to our attention and deadlines are not that far away. The Siggraph convention will be held at the end of July and run for a weeks time down in LA, whoo! If you would go you will see, or even talk to personally, people from places such as Pixar and Adobe, all those big names. The convention is not the cheapest so for students, go us, we have the opportunity to help at student volunteers working either 18 or 30 hours that week, your choice. For more information just go to www.siggraph.org/s2010. Also, we already have 5 rooms booked for whomever is going, you can thank Michele for that.
One last thing about Siggraph. If you’re going to go, please bring BUSINESS CARDS. They are a must have at this convention and you’ll be sad without them and we will cry no tears of sympathy for you.
After the long discussion about the SIGGRAPH convention, there was talk about what Webster Siggraph is going to do during our meetings this year. Nothing is set in stone so if you still have any ideas that you want to see (from talks to movies to whatever) just e-mail somebody on the staff and we’ll get it to the right person.
Also, Chris Sagovac pointed out that our library now has a collection of animation magazines including “Animation Magazine”. Woot!
Kristen DiFate also has a job opportunity for anyone who wouldn’t mind making some simple looking web designs (probably in photoshop) and it you will be paid for it. If you’re interested then please e-mail Kristen DiFate and let her know.
And that was pretty much it. It was a great meeting and an awesome start to the semester. Again, congratulations to the new staff!
P.S. Leah, please remember to not randomly present bananas to strangers. It’s kinda awkward.
