• Mission
	- Focus on professionals.
		- Students will come regardless.
	- Networking:
		- Meet new people within industry
		- See what others are working on.
		- Recruitment might result from networking, but there should be no specific job-recruitment events.
	- Recruit volunteers to help with chapter events.
	- Action Items:
		- Develop Marketing Plan (Kenton).
		- Get listing of IGDA membership within Ottawa-Gatineau area (Brian).
• Frequency
	- Monthly (so as to not lose momentum).
	- Try shifting the day from 3rd Tuesday of the month to 3rd Thursday of the month.
	- Start at 6:30:
		- If starting at 6:30, consider providing food (from companies or from budget).
	- Continue to alternate business meetings with social meetings.
	- Host meetings at Fuel and other locations (Bitheads? Transgaming?).
	- Action Items:
		- Update website (Dave).
		- Investigate sponsorship (Steve).
		- Determine locations for social and business meetings (Dave, Brian, Greg).
• Format
	- Speakers:
		- Ben Sawyer, Ernst Adams, Jason Della Rocca, people from EA/Ubi Montreal, IP lawyers, Venture Capitalists, etc.
	- Critiques / Focus Groups:
		- Present a game or game idea and dissect it.
	- Current projects:
		- Local professionals can demo projects/work that they’ve recently completed.
	- Idea Incubation:
		- Everyone contributes an idea for a game.  Ideas are put into a hat and only a few are drawn.  Each group has to flush out an entire game concept based on that idea (either during meeting or for the next meeting).
	- Topical Discussions:
		- Example: Graphics vs. Game Play.
	- Panel Discussions:
		- Bring in MPs, gurus, local talent to discuss various aspects of video games (example: Violence in video games).
	- Action Items:
		- Come up with an event with large appeal within the next 2 months (all).
		- Try to finalize time for Ben Sawyer (Steve, Kenton).
		- Determine a list of interesting people, topics, etc. (all).