[Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser at Cellspace October 9th

Naomi Most pnaomi at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 00:36:55 UTC 2009


Cleanup!!

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Ian <ian at slumbrparty.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> >
> > -Joachim
> > ------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >> Naomi Theora Most
> >> +1-415-728-7490
> >>
> >> skype: nthmost
> >>
> >> http://twitter.com/nthmost
> >>
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