[Penguicon-Concom] Re: [penguicon-general] I know it's early, but I'm already thinking about this...

Sat Sep 22 15:10:11 EDT 2007

I think I speak for everyone when I say that the raffle is great and that
we, as individuals, support March of Dimes or at leas their cause. (Who
doesn't want to save children? Satan, that's who.) I just don't want to ask,
or have anyone ask, GoHs for donations to multiple things and then have them
feel obliged even to donate things to more than one fundraiser per con.
(Unless it's blood. Everyone who weighs enough/has enough iron/etc should
donate blood, IMHO.) Just to make sure no one is feeling as though toes are
being stepped, or stomped, on.

The Charity will depend on how the rest of the GoHs pan out. We have a
couple ideas, talk about at the ConCom meetings, that are currently being
kept from being post anywhere on the internets because naming names can
always be a dangerous thing. 

Just, on the note of charities and fundraising, I'm thinking we might need
to have a date auction sometime. That'd just be awesome. And so funny.

FY,

Molly

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From: concom-bounces at penguicon.org [mailto:concom-bounces at penguicon.org] On
Behalf Of Shay
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 2:57 PM
To: Penguicon Concom Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Penguicon-Concom] Re: [penguicon-general] I know it's
early,but I'm already thinking about this...

Well, I'm already told Deb that I'm doing something for the March of Dimes
at Penguicon, so if you have an auction than I guess I just won't be asking
GoHs for donations... but I'll probably still have the raffle since I've
been been saying since closing ceremonies that I was going to do it again,
and I promised Deb that I'd somehow raise more money at next year's
Penguicon. 

*shrug*  Oh well.  And because I'm curious, what charity are you doing the
auction for?

On 9/22/07, Matt Arnold < <mailto:matt.mattarn at gmail.com>
matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:

That is a question to ask Sarah when she emerges from Ren Faire. It's 
entirely her decision based on who will do the work of acquiring
auctionables of sufficient quantity and quality, appraising them,
photographing them, and administering the event itself.

Until such time that our head or programming is able to return to us, 
I happen to know Alice Smith-Goerke might be interested in possibly
running our auction again, because she told me so. I've BCC'ed her on
this.

-Matt

On 9/22/07, Molly de Blanc < <mailto:majorarcanna at gmail.com>
majorarcanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I guess the question now is if we are doing an auction? There has been
a
> lot of talk about it, certainly, and I have always been behind it.
>
> FY,
> Molly 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: concom-bounces at penguicon.org [mailto:concom-bounces at penguicon.org ]
On
> Behalf Of Jer
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 5:31 AM
> To: Penguicon Concom Discussion List
> Subject: [Penguicon-Concom] Re: [penguicon-general] I know it's early,but
> I'm already thinking about this... 
>
> If we're going to be doing an auction, I, for one, would be loathe to
> ask them to donate to a raffle too. At some point, soliciting free
> donations becomes presumptuous.
>
> On 9/22/07, Molly de Blanc < majorarcanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are we planning on holding a raffle and an auction? If so, do we want to
> ask
> > GoHs to donate to both of them> 
> >
> >
> >
> > And, if you want, Shay, I'll contact them all for you.
> >
> >
> >
> > FY,
> >
> > Molly
> >
> > 
> >
> >   _____
> >
> > From: concom-bounces at penguicon.org [mailto:concom-bounces at penguicon.org
]
> On
> > Behalf Of Dan DeSloover
> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:29 PM
> > To: Penguicon Concom Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: [Penguicon-Concom] I know it's early, but I'm already 
> > thinkingabout this...
> >
> >
> >
> > Shay wrote:
> >
> > So... I'm planning on running a raffle again for the March of Dimes at
> next
> > Penguicon (everyone was awesome and we raised over $600 for the charity)

> and
> > I'm looking for ideas.
> >
> > So far, I'm planning to see if any of the GoHs would like to donate an
> item
> > to the raffle, and anyone from the dealers room.  I'm thinking about 
> selling
> > tickets Friday and Saturday and having the raffle at like 8pm Saturday
> > night.  If winners do not claim prizes by some time (trying to decide if
I
> > should make it like midnight Saturday or sometime Sunday morning) then 
> I'll
> > pull more tickets for the unclaimed items but winners will have to be
> > present at the 2nd pull.  Does this make sense?
> >
> > I have some random thoughts about the raffle going on in my head, but
does 
> > anyone have any suggestions... ideas for items or random other neat
ideas
> to
> > get people TO the raffle?  Things were disorganized last year because I
> > threw things together at the last minute, and I want to make things 8 
> > million times better at the next con.  :)
> >
> > ~Shay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > Hate to be a killjoy, but don't you have to have a special license to
hold 
> a
> > raffle? (state law) I think my church has to when they have their
> festival.
> > Granted we did it last year without, but there is no need to expose
> > Penguicon to any liabilities. Especially considering there is plenty of 
> time
> > from now till Penguicon. Perhaps March of Dimes could help you out?
> >
> > More information here:
> > http://www.michigan.gov/documents/BSL-CG-1824_26045_7.pdf
> >
> > and here:
> > http://www.michigan.gov/documents/BSL-CG-1655_1370_7.pdf 
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> -jer
> jer.lance at gmail.com
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