Maybe its just me, but I don't understand why all events need food. Nowhere
else that I go for a game night or talk would provide food. They have vending
machines and you bring money. I think it is okay if we just have that rather
than the pizza and we can even expand our junk food offerings to include some
chips if need be.
--- On Mon, 15/10/12, Michael Loney <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Michael Loney <[email protected]>
Subject: [SkullSpace-Discuss] Entrance fee Ideas!!
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, 15 October, 2012, 15:44
As the topic has come up again, I will revisit some old ideas.
The main goal with the outlined information is not to make money!! It is to
offer food and drink at events while breaking even on the event itself. This
gives us more incentive for people to come down while not costing us too much.
These are fees that only apply to non-members and student members, to serve as
an incentive to move up to a full membership.
Hack-a-thons - no talks
$5 entry, free can drink and 2 large slices of pizza at 6pm.
Hack-a-thons - minimum 3 talks
$10 entry, same as above but also gives access to all talks during the day.
Talks
$2 a seat, if food is going to be offered then see the gaming structure
below.
Events - other
This is a tricky one, the idea would be to have other things going on at
the space, learn to solder workshop, programming class, not-a-movie night etc.
The cost would be largely variable on what was gong on. Members would still
have to pay any material costs to break even.
Gaming nights
$5 entry, 2 free can drinks and 2 large slices of pizza at midpoint of
night.
** Pizza price based on a large 3 topping pizza ( 12 slices cost ~$16 after
delivery ) or 1.50$ cost per person.
For a hack-a-thon with 10 non-members our projected income would be $30.I know
this is not much but that $30 will cover pizza for the members attending
bringing us to a break even amount for the event.
Gaming night would be a more lucrative idea as with Dungeons and Dragons there
is normally 3-4 non-members per group that chip in for food anyway.
The big end goal is to populate our calendar with events that cost us a net $0
dollars. If we offer more and more things then the people stopping by are more
interested in the membership and the entrance fees drop to $0 for them.
Feel free to change numbers around but I don't think $5 will deter
someone from cheap food while giving them something interesting to do.
For the above to work we need all the members to start getting people
interested!! This means posters, flyers, word of mouth etc.
G Mike
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