[Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser at Cellspace October 9th

[Ian]

you have a lot of excellent points and i would like to talk about them
all at length on sunday. one thing i want to bring up how is the local
street food stuff. i had an idea of involving the local street food
vendors and my friend lauren who makes excellent cakepops. the problem
with the street food people is we have to work out some sort of deal.
here are some of the options i thought of:

1. get them into the venue. they can sell their food at higher than
normal rate or even their normal rate and we would get a cut of their
sales.
2. buy the food from them for a discount and then sell it for more
moneys. the downside is we'll have to front some of the cash, but
it'll be easier to manage.

any other thoughts?

ian

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:34 PM, 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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