[Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser at Cellspace October 9th

[Mitch Altman]

No objections from me.  Just a:  WooHoo!

 

 

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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:35:02 -0700
From: longobord at gmail.com
To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser at Cellspace October 9th

Cellspace has reserved the space for October 9th and now they'd like to get a contract.  I had hoped to talk about this at the meeting this week.  Time is really tight for planning this, so we need to get moving on it now.

What this needs most is a general consensus that this is a good idea for Noisebridge.  Does anyone have any objection to the following:

What I'm proposing is a night of entertainment at Cellspace.  I'm thinking something like $10 in advance and $15 at the door and selling snacks and drinks.  We won't be selling alcohol, but there's no restriction about having alcohol in the building, if you must. This will allow the event to be all ages, and we won't need to be checking IDs or anything like that.  I have numbers that I'd rather not post to the list for costs, so contact me if you're interested in that.

Miloh has some interesting soft drink ideas and VonGuard has volunteered his wife's cupcakes.  I'm hoping to talk people into making other stuff too.  I know it would be odd to be selling books and whatnot at a party, but if we're selling t-shirts, collecting orders for discounted books might also be something we can do.  

Other help that will be necessary: 

putting together the entertainment lineup (so we can advertise it) - I talked to San about this, and have a number of names of volunteer performers.  We just need to solidify
Figure out a theme - While "noisebridge fundraiser" sounds OK, something we can tie different elements in with would be preferable.
producing flyers - graphic design anyone?  I know we have some super-talented people.  Were Ian and Daniella interested in this?  
Working out all the things we can incorporate to make money (which does NOT include corporate sponsorship. I know other tech activities do that, but I don't feel that's appropriate for our mission).
Promotions - Naomi had offered up some things here, but we can't have too much promotion.  Cellspace is over twice the size of our new space, so the more the merrier.
Coming up with ways to decorate the space according to the theme.

Assuming we can get any objections resolved, I'd like to have an organizational meeting Sunday evening at 6:00 to go over everything.  Hopefully we can hammer out a theme at that point and folks can go home with ideas on what to put on the flyers.  I'll bring a list of all the entertainers who have volunteered so we can go over that too.  

Christie
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