Phoenix.pm: How about..? Re: Fundraising
Lowell Hamilton
syz at broken-bit.com
Fri Jul 5 19:52:37 CDT 2002
Handy enough, I used to be a big chunk of ALL and lanbash.com and have
been a big part of a ton of events ;> Sadly, it's never profitable. If
you charge more than $20, you will have a MUCH lower attendance because
broke college/high-school students can't come. If you charge less, you
can't afford the power generator, nework cabling/equipment, and venue
costs unless you get a big ($3000 or more) sponsor. Of the 4 events
over 100 people that lanbash put on, only one made money, and only
because of a $1000 sponsorship from Inflow, and the profit was still
only enough to buy the 4 of us dinner at Outback the next day. The rest
all ended up costing us about $200-$500 out of pocket (with 100% donated
networking equipment, pre-existing cables from the last event, and free
huge servers to host games on). If you can get a free venue and a darn
good deal on a generator (we had contacts inside Empire), and still get
free net gear, it's possible to make money, but still not very much.
Lowell
Bill Nash wrote:
>Fundraiser idea: Host a LAN bash. I'm planning on doing this for a team
>I'm on (which, funny enough, had the name 'Team Happy Fun Ball' last
>year.)
>
>Weigh entry costs against venue cost and adjust where possible.
>
>- billn
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>On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Erik Tank wrote:
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>>I don't know. We might be able to get people to pay us to put on some
>>clothing if we are out there in speedos ;->
>>
>>Frooninckx Craig - cfroon wrote:
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>>>Ouch, didn't hear that about Damian.
>>>
>>>The only thing about a carwash is that it is overdone, any given Saturday I
>>>seem to find about 20 carwashes with teenagers in skimpy bikinis (and I
>>>don't think we would attract too many cars wearing Speedos). Is there
>>>something that we could do to raise funds using Perl?
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Scott Walters [mailto:phaedrus at illogics.org]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 1:08 AM
>>>To: phoenix-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
>>>Subject: Phoenix.pm: How about..? Re: Fundraising
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Who wants to hold a benefit carwash...? *That* would be cool =)
>>>
>>>It looks like YAS needs all the help they can get. Damian was laid off,
>>>apparently, due to lack of funds. Half way through the year and they have
>>>51%. We could serve lemon aid and pie to people waiting for their cars to
>>>be washed.
>>>
>>>-scott
>>>
>>>
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