[Noisebridge-congress] Milliways funding drive

[Ben Kochie]

So this is a little strange, sorry.

The 25 EUR is the donation we ask for a coin.  Usually people want to come 
and just drink our free beer and hang out in our village.  The 25 EUR 
covers our cost to build the village.

It covers some of the food costs, but not enough based on the math I've 
been doing.

The food costs about 5+ EUR/day per person, and isn't part of the original 
coin thing started years ago.  So this year we're asking for an additional 
25 EUR up front to cover the food costs.

Either way, technically all the food is free, but is for members of the 
Milliways village.  The donation is to become an honorary Milliways member 
for camp.

My goal is to get enough donations that we can declare anyone part of NOPE 
to be honorary members of Milliways. :) :)

Any more clear now?

-ben

On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Ben Rupert wrote:

> Hi Ben, I have not been to camp before (or ToorCamp) so I'm not sure how this works.  I see
> there is the 25 EUR level to get a coin, but there is also a 50 EUR level which says that it is
> for a coin plus "extra for food".  Does this mean that the coin alone doesn't get you food?
> Thanks,
> Ben Rupert
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> wrote:
>       Hey NOPErs.
>
>       I'm running the kitchen at the Milliways Village this year, similar to what I've
>       done at other camps like ToorCamp.
>
>       Because of the CCC rules, only official food vendors are allowed to charge for
>       food.  So Milliways runs a free donation-based kitchen.  In order to get that
>       donation ball rolling, we've setup a crowdfunding site.  We're running our own
>       customized version of selfstarter[0] instead of using one of the popular funding
>       platforms.  This is to reduce the overhead.
>
>       https://donate.milliways.info/
>
>       One thing to note is that payment is push.  I'm guessing that most people don't
>       have EU bank accounts in order to wire transfer to me, so I've added a paypal for
>       accepting USD.  The amounts we are asking for are in EUR, so multiply by 1.1 (the
>       current exchange rate) when sending.
>
>       If you donate 25 EUR (27.50 USD) or more, you will get a Milliways Challenge Coin
>       with a Camp 2015 logo on one side.
>
>       -ben
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