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The Employee + H9 Meeting Notes: August 14, 2024

Farah Khan <█████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>, Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ > Cc: Louis Dollé <█████████████████████ >, Miranda Bambace <███████████████████████ >, Mark Ambrose Harris <████████████████████ >

Hello everyone!

Thank you so much for such a positive meeting and also all the nice words!! <3

Here are our meeting notes. Nowhere near as good as Mark's, but we do what we can without him. On the bright side, dropbox is now transcribing meetings, so you can check the transcript when you load the video, in case any of us needs to remind ourselves of something specific/something I've missed here, we can search by keyword!

See you all soon! 

Presentation deck

Meeting recording


Next steps:

  • House9 to:

    • send pdfs to Lauren for Asher Foundation approval and print tests (number 2 and 3 in the shared google doc - “Asher LAICA” and “Asher Copley”)

    • Send print test PDF for font size (old test, new tests coming)

    • Make additional tests to the text-heavy pages: main focus

    • Work on the back cover to try and make it less crowded, and make room for potential barcode

    • Email on title pages:

      • Try email in mixed-case (not all caps)

      • Try text bleeding off the page for long emails

      • Return to proper email headers/writing architecture

    • Check w/ printer:

      • can we have little touches of colour, like for Josh’s signature in blue

      • all aspects of printing (lay-flat binding, paper, inks, etc.). Consider recycled paper with flecks

    • Titling on screenshot pages: try filename

    • Put dedication on one page by itself

    • Website: check w/ Max about the website continually asking Josh to login. Update: Max has been informed and will check on Monday August 19.


  • Lauren:

    • Check w/ Art Metropole re: barcode

  • Josh

    • to find the email from Michelle Lacombe

    • To find file names for screenshots


Decisions/approvals:

  • Contract on back cover with full text is the preferred version

  • Yes to having writer submission email on essay/article title pages

  • Performance Stills: 1 image per page preferred

  • TOC: ok to remove text in parentheses, prefers 2-page spread

  • Preference to reduce blinginess of document (on section title pages, maybe use grey instead of metallic ink)

  • Keep contracts as is—don’t “clean up” or adjust levels to remove background grey

  • Endnote pages approved

  • Work Becomes Her image pages approved

  • Grant application documentation pages approved


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Farah Khan
Principal and Creative Director
Fondatrice et directrice de création
she / her / hers

House9 Design
Tio'tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal 
Quebec ███ ███


Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> To: Farah Khan <█████████████████████ > Cc: Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >, Louis Dollé <█████████████████████ >, Miranda Bambace <███████████████████████ >, Mark Ambrose Harris <████████████████████ >

hi Farah, Louis, Miranda, Lauren
thanks so much for these notes, Farah!
and thanks again to the House9 team for such a caring process. I have such a good feeling about the work we are doing.
I am just following up with the text of Michelle's email, which has the subject line "Finishing up" and is sent to me and lauren as recipients. Date is October 30, 2023, from 6:08pm.
with the following text, below, in blue.
I hope the visit with your mother is going well, Louis! 
x

Hey everyone,
I think I am done. 

There are two outstanding fact-check to be done :
  • The date about when funds were last invested into operating at the CALQ : I have sent an email to my contact and am waiting for the response. [If it does not arrive before the end of this week, I'll just adjust the sentence to cut the date].
  • The percentage of regular expenses that can be included in a project grant : Lauren, this one is attributed to you. If you can't find it, we can cut the details out of the sentence. It's helpful, but not necessary. 
Josh, I will follow up in another email with my bio and my invoice.
Happy last stages of the editing process!
Michelle

mark <████████████████████> To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> Cc: Farah Khan <█████████████████████ >, Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >, Louis Dollé <█████████████████████ >, Miranda Bambace <███████████████████████ >

Hi Josh,

thanks for this. I'll let the team know this is here.

wishing you a great weekend,
mark



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mark
Studio + Project Coordinator 
Coordonnateur de projet + studio
he/him // il/lui

Tio'tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal 
Timezone: EST • GMT/UTC−4