[Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser at Cellspace October 9th

Thu Sep 17 23:41:53 UTC 2009

I think a fund raising party is a great idea! But why not  have the
party at 2169?

-Joachim
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 16:34, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!  I <3 fundraising parties. I'm good at them, and I write much on this
> topic.  Behold my less-than-3-ness in the following reply.
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> Cellspace is RIGHT around the corner from Pirate Cat Radio at 21st and
> Florida.  It's very worth trying to arrange some collaboration.  I'm writing
> to Pirate Cat staff right now about it.
> Hell, we can probably set up a coffee table there.  Maple Bacon Lattes
> anyone?  We sell them for $5 regularly in the cafe, and we make at least 40
> of them a day.
> We also have a great hook-up with some local Mission vendors of cakes and
> cookies. Including a guy who makes these awesome gluten-free carrot cakes
> (great for broken people like myself).
> And it wouldn't truly be a Mission party without involvement from one of the
> local taco trucks, now would it??  There are a couple of neighborhood
> vendors that'd be overjoyed with the semi-captive audience for their tamales
> and tacos.
>
>
>>
>> Miloh has some interesting soft drink ideas and VonGuard has volunteered
>> his wife's cupcakes.
>
> Cool.  May I point out that there is a "cupcake bubble" economy going on
> right now, and many people are attracted to those mini-cupcakes that sell
> for $1 (and cost maybe 5 cents worth of materials).
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> A small stack of books would be a good "filler" and give people sort of a
> stylistic grasp of what's on offer, intellectually, from Noisebridge.
> I volunteer at the Oakland Public Library and can get my hands on a couple
> boxes of soon-to-be-discarded books.  Most of these are in the political or
> science or science fiction categories, but it's "something".  Don't see a
> lot of technical books in the discard piles.
>
>>
>> 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
>
>
> My friend Rich Risbridger does a "weird storytelling" kind of act that might
> be really fun.  I can probably trade him some unused yoga teaching credits
> to get him to do it.  :)
>
>
>>
>> Figure out a theme - While "noisebridge fundraiser" sounds OK, something
>> we can tie different elements in with would be preferable.
>
> Hmm. it's in the middle of October, so Halloween comes to mind.  Also, lots
> of Burning Man decompression activities will be happening around then.
> Also, lots of "Apocalypse" themed stuff has been happening lately, at least
> that's been coming to my attention.  At Pirate Cat we recently held a 'zine
> release party with an Post-Apocalyptic Film Fest.  This went over quite
> well, and I can only expect that, around Halloween and as people from
> Burning Man revive a little bit, that kind of theme will only grow in
> appropriateness.
> (At this point I feel it necessary to say I'm highly biased towards "that
> sort of thing" -- my favorite game of 2008-2009 is and has been Fallout 3,
> and I run a science cafe about end-of-the-world scenarios called "The
> Periodic Apocalypse".)
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> The best promotion is a fully integrated approach -- flyers and web pages
> that promise the right things, made up of language that's crafted and
> standardized across platforms.
> I'd of course recommend interviewing on Pirate Cat Radio!  Listeners vary
> across time slots, but Pirate Cat fans all have in common a loyalty and
> enthusiasm and penchant for giving great feedback that I don't see a lot of
> other places.  So it's worth going on a 2 or 3 different shows to announce
> the same thing.
> Crafting a few good sentences to spread on the flyers, to say on the radio,
> and so on makes all of these things very EASY to do in the moment.  It's
> basically like writing a function that converts an unstructured thought
> pattern about a specific thing into a structured piece of writing or
> speaking about that specific thing.
> Programming in English...
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
> Sunday at 6pm would be fine for me.  Sunday at 6am would be absolutely
> awful.  Just to be clear!
> --Naomi
>
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>
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