[hackpgh-party] Re: Initial wiki page up!
- From: Mandy <steelgreypittsburgh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-party@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:30:57 -0500
OK so that right there is the question of the day.
I didn't realize that the only bathrooms were right off of the room we'll be
in. That's a MAJOR problem, then. No, you can't keep people from using the
bathroom.
I think that almost forces us into having this party as PR, then. We'll
have no way to control the passthrough traffic, and we certainly can't
charge to use the bathroom.
If we're not charging at the door for anyone else, then it doesn't seem fair
to charge for members either (just throwing this out there). How do we make
$ for the shop then? I guess pimp the raffles hardcore.... maybe do an
activity like "make a throwie pin right here for $3"???
That one data point changes the entire flux of our whole effort here.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:56 AM, gwen <gwenix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Mandy <steelgreypittsburgh@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > *** Totally agreed, we do want people to drift back and chat. Not
> bothering
> > to ask them to pay? Ludicrous. Then why spend time marketing to the
> public
> > if only having members have to pay to get in? Resentful if no one takes
> > money at the door? Hell yes. Everyone paid when they came in the door
> for
> > the Halloween Party. Everyone. Easy as that. The party just has to be
> > interesting enough for them to WANT to pay.
>
> Since this is the crux of my issue:
>
> How do you propose we do that?
>
> That was something Brillobox had a big advantage over OTB for: the
> space we used was totally separate from the rest of the bar being
> upstairs. We'll be between the bathrooms and the main bar, and cannot
> prevent people from using them. This also means we're more visible
> too, of course. But this then does come back to what Doug was saying:
> Is this a PR event or a fundraising event?
>
> --
> Gwendolyn R. Schmidt
>
>
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