IGDA Manila is back

IGDA Manila is back! From a revival on the official forums to our first in-person meeting, the Manila chapter of IGDA is slowly getting back on its feet. Read on for notes from the first meeting (including the list of new board members for 2009).

First IGDA Meeting
Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009, 1:30 pm 
Columns, Makati

In attendance:
* Paul Gadi (eXist)
* Ryan Sumo
* Sony Valdez
* Andrei Victor (Kuju Manila)
* Caroline Dy (Flipside Games)
* Luna Cruz (Boomzap Entertainment)

Agenda:
* Status of IGDA
* Goals of our chapter
* Roles of board members
* Action items

STATUS OF IGDA
* Ranulf stepped down, opened board nominations
* 3 board members: Ryan, Andrei, Luna
- Paul, Caroline, and Sony joined as board members

GOALS OF OUR CHAPTER
* Build community: developers, students, teachers, etc
* Hold activities for developers: round tables, podcasts?
* Improve communications: Twitter, blog
- A Twitter account was made: IGDA_Manila. Password is with Paul

ROLES OF BOARD MEMBERS
* Each board member volunteered their strengths and/or contributions to the board
* Sony: blogging, web, tech
* Caroline: art, comics, design
* Andrei: linkages, connections, programming
* Luna: PR, teaching, activities
* Ryan: art, representing freelance developers, social responsibility for parents etc
* Paul: programming, education, connection to VCs

RECRUITMENT
* Next goal: get more members!
* Target: 50 members in a month
* Send e-mail to GDAP, so they can forward to their employees
* Invite people from forums, game societies, friends, etc

ACTION ITEMS
* Listed immediate action items, moving forward:
- List podcast ideas (everyone)
- Get moderator access to forums (Andrei)
- Get moderator access to blog (Luna)
- Make IGDA Yahoo! Groups for board members (Luna)
- Learn how to set up podcasts (Luna)
- Get IGDA guidelines (Paul)
- Write forwardable e-mail to GDAP (Ryan)
- Manage Twitter account (Ryan)
- Make a Facebook group (Caroline)

NEXT MEETING
* Next meeting: end of March

And then, much Rock Band and Street Fighter 4 were played.