[Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser Proposal

[Glen Jarvis]

Cool.. I'd like to see some discussion involving non-profit status and anyone's feeling on auctioning off equipment that people donated to noisebridge. For example, what if we auctioned one of the many touch screen machines that are plopped in the church classroom? Or, what about a large bulky rack? Or rack machines? 

I want to get a sense of how much consensus there will be as it will raise us money, clear out stuff that is accumulating, and get a sense of what is junk to be recycled and what should be kept for hacking purposes 

Glen

El Aug 27, 2010, a las 9:41 AM, Frantisek Apfelbeck <algoldor at yahoo.com> escribió:

> Great idea! I can help to gather the potential auction material, as far as I recognize what that piece of .... is ...
> See you,
> Frantisek
> 
> From: Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com>
> To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> Sent: Thu, August 26, 2010 12:49:07 PM
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser Proposal
> 
> Two observations that seems to be generally true for Noisebridge:
> 
> * We usually either need money or could use more money, and
> * We always get junk donated
> 
> Sometimes the stuff that gets donated is "weeee" -- let's hack that. Other times it's, "that's cool, but we already have 30 of them..."
> 
> Instead of discouraging donations, what if we had an auction? It would clean out the space once-in-a-while, benefit the community who wants cool things, and earn us some money. For example, I personally have been very interested in some of the racks that were donated to noisebridge... I don't need one now, but I remember that we had so many around we didn't know what to do with them and I wanted to get one....
> 
> I know Goodwill, for example, gets stuff donated to them just for the purpose of reselling. We're talking about a one-time auction (or maybe twice a year, once a quarter) instead of retail.
> 
> What sticky non-profit issues are there for us? Is this a horrible idea?  Can we make it a mini-maker-faire type of event where people also can set up tables showing off kits they made, sell arduinos, etc.?
> 
> Ideas are easy.. implementation is hard..
> 
> G
> -- 
> Whatever you can do or imagine, begin it;
> boldness has beauty, magic, and power in it.
> 
> -- Goethe 
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