3/3 Conference Call Minutes

[Jonathan Perri]

Roll Call:
Megan Sand, Rishi Malhotra, Alex Woon, Brandon Splane, Nick Kappeyne
van de Coppello , Ben Weiser

Conference Attendance:
SJSU - About 10 students
OCC - 8-10 students
Nick - Hasn't had any commitments (aiming for 4-5) will check in with
other schools in Portland. 1
UNLV - No idea as to how many will be able to attend, so far just him

Arrival:
SJSU can probably attend on Friday
OCC - Friday Evening
Reed - Friday Evening
UNLV - Coming on the 23rd - staying with a friend in the Bay Area

Hostel in San Francisco -
- Need someone to get everyone up and to conference at time
- Plus for students to stay in one place
- Cons: Hard for students to find
- Try to find hostel in walking distance of conference (Rishi)

Registration Fee:
- Cannot get funding from school
- Waiting to hear back from local restaurants about donations
- $20.00 for students
- $30.00 for non-students

Tabling: Free for drug policy organizations

Theme for Conference:
- Tie in recession issue, a regulated market could get us out of
economic slump,
- Well timed for AB390, focus on reform and reasons
- Momentum
- Refer Madness - Refer Radness - revenue and other positive aspects
of marijuana.
- The Perfect Storm For Reform

Meet and greet on Friday evening
Sunday - Oaksterdam tour and party at Oaksterdam Student Union
-Harborside Tours on Sunday Evening - need transportation to
Harborside

[Brian Wallace]

Is anyone doing marketing for the conference? I.E. recruiting and/or
reminding EVERY chapter in the western region to try to make it to the
conference? It seems like we haven't had a number of people on the
conference calls that were really excited about the West Coast
conference when we first talked about it in DC last November...
-Brian Wallace

[Jon Perri]

Hey Brian,

That is definitely an important concern. Obviously, as outreach
director, I'm constantly promoting the conference to our current
chapters and to our new ones starting up. But thats not going to be enough.

For marketing - we are a bit behind - we need to make up some fliers and
put up our registration page.We decided on the call that the Theme of
the conference will be"The Perfect Storm" - so we'll start working on
designs of handbills/fliers asap. Once the registration page is setup
(plan is to do that today) - we can really start promoting and urging
students to sign up - giving us an actual head count.

That being said, we will need help from all of our chapter leaders to
promote the conference to their membership, to friends at other schools
that might be interested in starting a chapter, and for contacting other
chapters near them. Any suggestions are welcome and if our chapters are
speaking with one another about coming, I think we'll have a great
turnout. Plus, I think its more effective for our chapters to be pumping
each other up than it is for us old geezers in the office to do so ; )

Lets talk more about recruitment and bringing all of our chapters out here!

Jonathan Perri

Outreach Director: Western Region
Students for Sensible Drug Policy
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