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There's a sub-form for this back in DC18 but nothing here yet. Don't know if the organizers check in here very often, but hopefully Pyr0 will notice this and pass word to Ed. Might be something she, Funball, and the others want to do...
So last year i participated and had fun. It was a cool way to beat the heat and just generally bond with some of the other goons and long-time DC folk, having most of my hair chopped. However, i caught some significant flak for it from my family, being that i was attending a cousin's wedding just after arriving home.
So this year, while i might be participating again, it may take some convincing. So i was thinking... what if we had some sort of a "pledge" system in order to encourage new folks to the barber chair? For example, i might say that i'll go mohawk again if people donate $250. That's a dozen folk, basically, putting up a $20 bill. Hardly much there. But then again, i'm not the one we need to see on the big board. Could you imagine what sort of funds this event could raise if there were names like Thorn or AST or GMark on some sort of a similar wall? With values like $5,000 or more?
Still totally do-able... the only difficulty, really, would be how to handle a situation where people donated, say, $3,500 and thus fell short of the above hypothetical goal. if all donors get some sort of ticket or receipt signed or stamped by the girls there would be two possible solutions:
1. people would be entitled to come back on Sunday to try to get a refund (if they really felt cheated)
2. donations on the big board "roll over" to subsequent years... imagine a figure of like $50K for someone like Dark Tangent... perhaps at DEFCON 22 or something we'd have that raised.
Please speak up if people think this isn't in the spirit of the Mohawk-Con... but i just think it could seriously up the dollar value of money raised, and allow non-haircut-folk to feel like they're participating, too. And imagine the frenzy and fervor as the dollar amount is getting close to someone, with SMS messages hitting their phone saying "hope you're free in about a half hour" etc etc.
(I am indeed picturing a big board with people photos and sliding bar graphs that get updated as the donations are made)
So last year i participated and had fun. It was a cool way to beat the heat and just generally bond with some of the other goons and long-time DC folk, having most of my hair chopped. However, i caught some significant flak for it from my family, being that i was attending a cousin's wedding just after arriving home.
So this year, while i might be participating again, it may take some convincing. So i was thinking... what if we had some sort of a "pledge" system in order to encourage new folks to the barber chair? For example, i might say that i'll go mohawk again if people donate $250. That's a dozen folk, basically, putting up a $20 bill. Hardly much there. But then again, i'm not the one we need to see on the big board. Could you imagine what sort of funds this event could raise if there were names like Thorn or AST or GMark on some sort of a similar wall? With values like $5,000 or more?
Still totally do-able... the only difficulty, really, would be how to handle a situation where people donated, say, $3,500 and thus fell short of the above hypothetical goal. if all donors get some sort of ticket or receipt signed or stamped by the girls there would be two possible solutions:
1. people would be entitled to come back on Sunday to try to get a refund (if they really felt cheated)
2. donations on the big board "roll over" to subsequent years... imagine a figure of like $50K for someone like Dark Tangent... perhaps at DEFCON 22 or something we'd have that raised.
Please speak up if people think this isn't in the spirit of the Mohawk-Con... but i just think it could seriously up the dollar value of money raised, and allow non-haircut-folk to feel like they're participating, too. And imagine the frenzy and fervor as the dollar amount is getting close to someone, with SMS messages hitting their phone saying "hope you're free in about a half hour" etc etc.
(I am indeed picturing a big board with people photos and sliding bar graphs that get updated as the donations are made)
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