On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 10:49 -0400, Dan Swick wrote: > Hi all. > > I was just talking to my boss about his football boosters' fundraising > auction and that caused a few ideas in my head that I'd like for the > record: > > - The way the boosters' auction works is they sell tickets ($12) and > then once at the event, items are auctioned off that are donated from > businesses in the area. For example, Mid's donated a case of spaghetti > sauce. An analogous situation would be if Goodyear donated a set of four > tires, Chipotle donated gift certificates, etc. In exchange, they get > event sponsorship and their name on a banner. On top of that, we could > make use of things we already have laying around - for example, donated > computers could be restored to working condition and given a fresh copy > of Fedora, then auctioned with a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
omg you're saying we can get rid of our CRTs? why aren't we doing this already?? > > - A tangential idea would be starting a company eBay store. We had > talked some months back about having a storefront per se but that would > be impractical at this time for space reasons. We could take those > aforementioned old computers and other spare assets and auction them off > for cash. possibly. I'm not interested in running an online synhak shop with all the details associated with that sort of endeavor, but if someone else wants to, go for it. just don't sell useful stuff. > > The live auction could be part of an event (the site cleanup, or the > open house for example) or it could be its own thing. I just wanted to > get a conversation going about it. > > Trever also mentioned we do need to start having more active projects we > could highlight. If we do a project that we could make through an easily > repeatable process, those items could perhaps be sold for some cash as > well. If anyone has some metal spheres, Craig is building a pair of tesla coils. Thats something that is great for PR. Also, if someone has an electric wheelchair or wants to acquire one, we can build a badass robot. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
