If you've got EMT skills, ranger skills, and fire playin' with skills, then I love you, for sure.

'Cause I love me some skilled folks.

I think y'all are probably totally right about the less folks (more like 200-300 would come), but, I'm hoping we can find a site that could do more, just in case.

Since there's no cash on hand, it'll have to be a deal where the site agrees that they're in for a percentage of ticket sales (okay in my DREAM WORLD we'll get the site JUST BECAUSE..but realistically...)...so I figure the lowball is to guarantee 100 and max at 1000.

Our biggest single expense is gonna be insurance, which is high for a smaller number but doesn't go up so much for a larger number. It's kind of steep for an event like this, and I can't really say I blame them!

XXXOOO,
Me

I think he meant it in terms of what kind of turnout we can expect, not that they didn't count. Not including the rave camp in the count suggests the amount of people that signed up for Transformus specifically. The first Transformus was small, so was the first Alchemy.

There are other factors that could drive this number up. If the time and location is right, we'll be picking up T'fus overflow. If it doesn't happen on the same weekend (which I think it shouldn't), then some will be attending both. Also, and obviously, burns are much more popular now than they ever were, so there may be more demand from that perspective. We should expect about 200, but try to accommodate up to 1000 (or more) if at all possible.

This is all academic if we don't get a venue. I'm asking around, and I encourage every one to do the same. With luck, we'll find a place on REALLY short notice.

I'm not trying to diss your friends.
I'm just saying that Transformus brought in 200 people.
Blue Moon brought in 200 people. And they have an event that had built up over a long period of time independently of the Burn, and the people who came, came for Blue Moon and not for Transformus. If Blue Moon had been at another location that weekend
I don't think they would have skipped it to attend Transformus.
I'm just taking the number out because it is a statistical fluke.

Without this one group, Transformus would have had about two hundred people, which is what the organizers had predicted.

Ooooo me too. In fact, if we should be so fortunate as to have any kind of success financially with this, in future, I would vote to dedicate the proceeds from whatever to a land fund. I really think that artists would rather have a place to go and work on stuff, that everyone would benefit more overall as a community and as individuals, from a place where things can go on, rather than from art grants. But that's another day's story...

I don't know if I should start another thread for this, but I guess the big first question as we're looking for a site is, what date?

Reasons for having it the same weekend as Transformus:

It gives everyone who didn't get into Transformus a sense of being included by this region. I think that if we hold it on another date, no matter what, some folks will feel let down. And, it kind of levels the playing field. If we hold it on another weekend, some folks will get to go to both, which will sort of enhance the star-bellied sneech factor if you see what I'm saying, and make some weenie roasts more important than others.

Reasons for not having it the same weekend as Transformus:

It would be great to be able to include folks who have tix to Transformus but would also like to come to this event.

Thoughts, y'all? This is something we should decide early, 'cause the first thing a land site owner is gonna want to know is WHEN....personally I don't have a strong opinion, as I said above I can see reasons for either decision.

XXXOOO,
Me