Meeting Minutes

October 16, 2009 (5-6pm)

@ ECE Common Room (BA1120) - Bahen Centre, 40 St. George, Toronto, ON

Attendance: Reginald Tan, Michael Rice, Monting Lin, Nakib Khan, Alex Chen

1) Finalized General Event list

Fall:
a) Web Startup “Meet up” (General Meeting)
b) Programming Workshops
c) Seminars(Founders and/or Student Entrepreneurs) – i.e. Business Model
Generation, Getting Venture Capital, Success Stories of Founders

Winter:
a) Web Startup Exhibition
b) Web Development Contest – web app/web dev

2) First event – Web Startup “Meet up” - care of Reginald, detailed plans in
progress report
When: October 28, 2009 (6-7pm)
Where: Bahen Centre Tutorial Rooms? Seminar Room?
What: Informal session that will introduce interested participants to the club, Its
vision, goals, and plans for the year, and to talk about what we love: anything related
to startups.

Advertisement:
Ask favor from prof to promote event through blackboard or whatever means
possible (Adriana, K. Reid, etc.). CDF(computer science online forum). Skule mailing
list(ask permission from web director skule)

3) Budget Proposal:
To get funding from different school department, we need to create budget on
projected expenses.(Food for members during event, flyers, posters, prize money,
speaker fee, discount passes to startup events) –
Request funds from diff sources, i.e. hart house good ideas fund, UTSU, SKule, comp
sci dept, commerce dept, ECE dept, etc… - care of Nakib

4) New Executive Member:

Michael Rice – Technical Director (position is not available yet in constitution, but will
become official after constitution is amended in general meeting – “Meet Up”)

5) Project Leaders:
Michael Rice – head Workshops(i.e. PHP 101, etc..)
Monting Lin – head Seminars(i.e. success stories of founders, etc..)

6) Project Collaboration

Use Google Docs

7) Next Meeting:
Oct 23, 5-6pm( Bahen Centre 3rd floor Great Hall)