Thank you! What a great get together!
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It was an awesome awesome time. Thank you so very much to everyone who made this happen!
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Thumbs up to Tim for spearheading the concept. Please extend my thanks to your family for sharing you and your bbq chops with us.
Additional thanks to:
Jorge and Tracy for managing the slicing, dicing and serving of meat. (And if that pan of bbq beans was from y’all, they rocked!)
Scott for the grilled sausage contribution, bbq sauce, and encouragement.
James H for helping Tim and me with the approvals on promo and encouragement. (Btw-I took all the promo flyers down this evening)
Everybody who brought stuff and everybody who came and ate stuff. What’s not to like!?!
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A huge thank you to everyone who worked on this!!
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Very cool, sorry I couldn’t make it out. Maybe we could do this again once ever quarter.
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Dickey’s Dickey’s Dickey’s
Edit: Aw, that was no fun.
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Hear that PR may have a BBQ grill that it will be pulling out for upcoming events. So, that is something.
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I’m willing to do briskets again in May. I wish I could do it more to create a better sense of community.
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Also, I would like to try doing a table rotation(kinda speed dating type thing) or random assigned seating. I think that doing this will get people a little out of their comfort zone & meet other makers. Create new friendships
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How about some good BBQ instead?
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I consider Dickey’s to be statutory - they call it BBQ because they meet the minimum definition of BBQ thus they’re allowed to use the label. 
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Speed Eating!
I don’t eat meat, so of course my vote is for sale!
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I have a sort of funky idea for maybe late October and pair it up with something for Halloween we have a chili cook-off along with the potluck. And we can even make it a bit of a fundraiser some of us that do Ceramics can make some bowls and decorate them and then have them out where people can bid on them for some time before they potluck starch highest bidder gets a bowl or gets that bowl. Wouldn’t make much but it be kind of fun and the competition would also be fun between the chili makers on the bowl makers
If a chili cook/fundraiser is in the offing, I have a suggestion. This is an “and” not an “or,” building on Cairenn’s suggestion.
The chili cookoff could be judged by anyone buying a bowl (or a T-shirt, or just an admission fee). This is not critical. But put empty coffee cans in front of each entry. Have little sample size bowls (1 - 2 oz) available. Anyone wanting to vote for a particular chili can do so by stuffing the ballot cans…with cash. (Or checks, if that is allowed for donations 
) People can vote in this manner for as many different entries as they like, and ballot box stuffing is encouraged!
So everyone gets some chili, everyone judges, and even voter fraud would benefit the Makers’ space!
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I’ve been involved in a similar scheme with another non-profit fund raiser. They trade raffle tickets for donations, one dollar per ticket. You can use credit cards with a $5 minimum. You can donate any amount and receive the same amount of tickets. Then voting is performed with the tickets. You are allowed to vote on as many entries as you choose. This makes it a little easier to keep track of the cash while still having a ton of fun.
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DMS/non-profits can’t do raffels (from what I’ve been told) it’s considered gambling and very risky
We’ve had lots of success at auctions.
I believe that raffles are allowed two times per calendar year for the whole organization. There are some requirements that need to be met but it looks like it is doable. You will have to check with @brsims
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I’ll put it this way, it’s probably doable if we were sufficiently motivated, but I like auctions a whole lot better.
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me too. the silent auction wen’t very well last time.