<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Great idea! I can help to gather the potential auction material, as far as I recognize what that piece of .... is ...<br>See you,<br>Frantisek<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Glen Jarvis <glen@glenjarvis.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, August 26, 2010 12:49:07 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser Proposal<br></font><br>
Two observations that seems to be generally true for Noisebridge:<div><br></div><div>* We usually either need money or could use more money, and</div><div>* We always get junk donated</div><div><br></div><div>Sometimes the stuff that gets donated is "weeee" -- let's hack that. Other times it's, "that's cool, but we already have 30 of them..."</div>
<div><br></div><div>Instead of discouraging donations, what if we had an auction? It would clean out the space once-in-a-while, benefit the community who wants cool things, and earn us some money. For example, I personally have been very interested in some of the racks that were donated to noisebridge... I don't need one now, but I remember that we had so many around we didn't know what to do with them and I wanted to get one....</div>
<div><br></div><div>I know Goodwill, for example, gets stuff donated to them just for the purpose of reselling. We're talking about a one-time auction (or maybe twice a year, once a quarter) instead of retail.</div><div>
<br></div><div>What sticky non-profit issues are there for us? Is this a horrible idea? Can we make it a mini-maker-faire type of event where people also can set up tables showing off kits they made, sell arduinos, etc.?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ideas are easy.. implementation is hard..</div><div><br></div><div>G</div><div>-- <br>Whatever you can do or imagine, begin it;<br>boldness has beauty, magic, and power in it.<br><br>-- Goethe <br>
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