[Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser at Cellspace October 9th

[Ian]

Joachim,

that has been brought up before and was nixed for several reasons. i
dont remember what all of them were so please see the list archives.

thanks,

ian


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Joachim Pedersen <joachimp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think a fund raising party is a great idea! But why not  have the
> party at 2169?
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> -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
>>
>> --
>> "All we are is dust in the wind, dude.
>> Dust... Wind... Dude."  --Ted
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