Event:2016/08/04 Delegates Meeting

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  • Julio: not need to approve by delegates

Discussion: Liberated Lens' budget plan, as requested last month

  • Delegates wanted a proposal for liberated lens, about what we have planned to be able to pay the increase in rent.
  • Delay discussion since Liz isn't here.
  • Julio: why do they need to prove they can pay?
  • Jenny: Based on request pending proposal for LL to take over space, and try to increase the amount they can contribute.
  • Robb: Meeting less often, people are on vacation. We need to be patient. Apologies.
  • Marcus: Big proponent of transparency for financials
  • Julio: Great, but need to have for all collectives...

We brainstormed lots of ideas, then crunched some numbers to see what would be most profitable. Here is the speadsheet:

Please see the note at the top about our conclusions.

I also want to mention that we reapplied for Awesome Foundation. There are two other grants we're looking into.

We are adding a video recording service for Omni events, for a fee, on top of the usual audio/video operation. In order to process A/V requests, we created this form: (google forms) yuEJkTuj8HBX1LI92 I hope folks on the commons wg will direct people to it.

To summarize what Tugg is: it's an online platform where people can request movies that they want to see to be screened at local theaters. A promoter then has to sell a certain minimum number of tickets, and if that quota is reached, the film gets shown. The profits are split between the theater, the promoter, Tugg, and the rightsholder. In our case, Omni would be the theater and we would be the promoters. Through this platform we can gain access to fairly big-budget films that would draw a regular crowd. Check out some of the films they have to distribute on https://www.tugg.com/

We are in the process of streamlining film night protocols, with the intention of making it simple and efficient enough to handle 4 screenings a month.

But we are also still in the midst of moving our editing suite to the basement; we've done a lot of cleaning so far and there had to be some discussion about how to design the space. So we have a lot on our plates for now and we hope you will be patient with us. We can't afford $300 next month, maybe the month after, but we'll have to see.


Previous Meeting Notes

Weekly Omni Delegates Meeting - 21 Jul 2016

End of Meeting

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