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

Sat Sep 22 15:21:39 EDT 2007

I supppse I should have finished reading emails before responding...
but I agree in principle with everything said here... although I think
we should investigate any potential legal issues with having a raffle
at Penguicon, even if we're not sponsoring it.

On 9/22/07, Molly de Blanc <majorarcanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> 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
> > http://www.ibloviate.org
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