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The chapter was started on October 14th 2010.

Oct 14th:
Attendees, Eric S., Jason P., and Scott W.
agenda, general, misc,

Oct 21rst:
Attendees, Eric S., Jason P., Scott W. and Calvin L.
agenda, introduction to the cause, whats in it for us, why is it possible, what kinds of outreach gets us there

Oct 28th:
Attendees, Eric S., Jason P. Scott W.
Agenda, 1. Better meeting location, likely going to try public library meeting room.
2. Making signs that advertise the chapter to have ready for next week.
3. Setting our focus, should it be complex, simple, or just informational? Complex involves getting people involved with any of a variety of projects, simple involves one objective to accel with like one of the cause petitions, informational involves just trying to get more and more people to come to the chapter and talk about the cause in general with no real objectives. It looks like we may be headed toward the petition option which we will bring a copy of to the table next week for consideration.

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Nov 4th:

Attendees: Eric, Scott, new guy with his friend were no show, or possibly couldnt find us at our new location.
Held meeting at the trial location of the public library.

Agenda:

1. Go over the flyers we brought. We have each agreed to put up at least 5 by next week and will consider what revisions to it may be.

2. general

-we decided that we will each bring the address of a free local publication, or the publication itself, that is local, that we can look into advertising this chapter with.
-we made a list of places that we can put up flyers at, we will continue to expand and organize the list so that it is ready as check lists for when there are more people at the meetings.
-we will work on a smaller 1 page "trifold" (unifold?) flyer for where they might work better.

3. The focus of these meetings. We went over that the four main things we'll want to look to for these meetings, depending on whos at the particular meeting: 3 part intro, general outreach, extended outreach, and or 6 point plan work.

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Nov. 11th

Eric Scott
Library

From last week we each put out five flyers. I brought in a publication. Scott was going to bring in copy of aarp magazine but forgot.

For next week we have scott looking to
1. bring magazine
2. inquire about getting on the aging and disability resource center board of directors where he works.
3. to call wspt and inquire about doing a blurb on the air.

Eric to:
1. inquire with the publication I brought in about advertising.
2. send the chapter info into the local newspapers events calendar.
3. find out more about aarp.
4. Schedule the venue for more thursdays




Nov. 18th
attendees, Eric, Scott,

scott:
he brought in his magazine
he inquired about the board, they sent him to a lady who was unavailable
did not call wspt yet

Eric:
wrote to the newspaper and the magazine, no response yet, will check to see if it made it into events calendar weekly automatically,
been reading up on aarp.
scheduled the venue up until the 2nd of december for now.


Next week
scott:
1. to further inquire about board
2. to write to his friend who works with many newspapers for what he might be able to say about it
3. call radio station

Eric:
1. Get general ad ready for potential things,
2. write to the university paper events section
3. write to the local university radio.

We went over the general things we will do when there are more people. Want to start thinking about printing an intro, and basic agenda for larger group.

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No meeting on thanksgiving

Dec. 2nd

Scott did further inquiry into the aging and disability center board. Will continue to follow up.
No word back from his letter to newspaper friend.
Reports that we send a blurb in to the radio station, they approve it, schedule it, then one of us will read it.

Eric still needs to write to UW paper
and radio.
Worked on general add at the meeting.

For next week,

scott to make flyer designed to ask old folks homes inhabitants to indicate interest in a presentation on indefinite life extension.

Eric to write radio, newspaper, and send in radio blurb for approval.

Rescheduled location for library in first thursday of each month and local kitchen for all other thursdays of each month.

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December 9th.

Scott
Eric

Scott didnt make flyer yet.

Eric wrote blurb, wrote to local radio with blurb, wrote to local University newspaper

Next week:

Scott to work on old folks home flyer, do follow up with newspaper friend.

Eric to look for more recruits.

December 16th.

Eric
Jason
Chris
Kyle

General discussion, introduction material. 3 main points of indefinite life extension. Question and Answer.

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January 9th 2011, (schedule is now first thursday of each month, also scheduled in the libraries meeting room reservation page)

attendees:
Scott, Eric


Scott hasnt heard back from his newspaper friends. The radio and other publications hadnt written back at that point.

I brought in a typed up flyer for old folks homes. I brought in three copies.
I brought in ten generic copies of a general letter to the media about the imminst billboard.

We discussed general things, these things, and our general progress.

For next month Scott will have put up at least one old folks flyer, and will send out at least 4 of these media letters about the billboard. I will send out at least 6.

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March 3rd 2011 - Library Rotary room

Attendees: Scott, Jason, Eric

length, 1 hour

We got one call from the billboard snail mailing, from the local newspaper. They didnt do the story.

There were no responses to the old folks flyer Scott reports and it was taken down recently.

At this meeting we spent a lot of time explaining the cause to Jason again. Hes on the fence. Its good practice for times when we may have a lot of fence sitters at a meeting.

We thought about what a more poignant outreach may be and we decided to go back to some more good traditional pamphleteering but with some adjustments like message sharpening, update it to the better outreach name "Longecity", to tighten in the target areas a bit more and to use one of the appeals to authority versions. We'll get that running and ready for next meeting.

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April 7th 2011 - Library Rotary room

Attendees: Scott, Eric

length, 45 minutes

We will need more time for this pamphlet, look forward to technical Longecity pamphlet. In the mean time we went over general things and then distribution of most of the remaining 2011 Imminst Calender cards and then distributed them.