[Noisebridge-congress] Milliways funding drive

[Jonathan Lassoff]

This is all quite excellent.

I think I would enjoy eating with y'all from time to time and put in
for Coin + Food.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> wrote:
> 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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