🌟 We need an event for 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ members

I think we need an event for getting 2000 members …

There are currently 1971 members.

Anyone want to help plan it?

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I’m willing to lend a hand.

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We will likely have 2000 members by Open House. Why not plan a celebration to happen at that time? Good for PR coverage: more than doubling our space and hitting 2000 members.

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Perhaps … @Team_PR would be willing to help …

What would it take to make some of these for open house?

2000glasses2

2000glasses

Journey to a retro-shop? Throwback Tuesday Morning should do it…

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Do you think they will have more than one or two … I’m thinking of making a few more than that …

Perhaps it would be possible to cut them out on the zing or even the vinyl cutter? And the fold them into glasses.

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Who is going to bring a kazoo?

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I don’t know but I’m giving one to @Diplomat

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Don’t know how many you’re thinking, but…
This seems like a good basis from which to build

Laser cut those, modify or cut the 2 and extra 0 to be added…

Or just cut the 2000 out of DTF and superglue to these…

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I’m actually thinking of stiff paper … but wood might work as well …

I’m thinking this is what the aeroplane crew was using…
https://www.dollartree.com/Readi-Board-Foam-Boards/p16450/index.pro

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I think 2000 members is exciting (and a little scary).

What’s your definition of hitting 2000 members? Is it just hitting it the first time, or is it maintaining membership consistently at or above 2000?

I’m not trying to be a pedant. Our membership goes up and down, particularly at the beginning/end of billing periods. The trend is consistently growing, but with the normal fluctuations when we hit 2000 it could easily go down a dozen or so.

As long as beer is served … party every time … hahaha …

No, really, I would say if it hits it and stays with in a few members … … it counts … the trend is going to go up after open house anyway

I think for right now, as soon as we have at least 2000 show up on the count we can honestly say we hit 2000. It can bounce below that by the next morning, but our trend has been steadily upward at least since we’ve been at our present location, so I don’t think it is a misrepresentation. I’m confident that once we hit it, even if down for a day, we’ll be up over 2000 within the week.

Considering 2000, Expansion, & Open House and the constellations auguring good fortune: Jupiter is aligning in Third House of Aquarius, Mars ascendant, or some such mumbo jumbo … we should make hey and take advantage of it if it happens.

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Membership head count is 1972.

Woot!

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We need to recognize that 2000th member in some way They get to cut a rivvon or smach a wall

And When it happens it is announced o everyone at the space

Well we could do a CTF, AMA, Makerfair, and some sort of Twitch live stream

The trick here is how do we count the 2000th member?

The system counts up new members as they buy memberships, but it doesn’t remove them until it runs a “batch” in the middle of the night. So we could be at 2000 at midnight and drop to 1995 by morning. We could have several days of that cycle until it stabilizes above 2000.

Do we celebrate the first one, or the last one… or all of the ones in between?

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We need to recognize the first 5, and the first 50 and the first 100 that got us here.

So many from @DPRG and before, like @mrhavens and @Peter_Smith here donating and building before we had a Space. To these, I am very grateful.

To the 2,000 member, they are truly a winner and should also be recognized.

I propose we make this part of the Open House, and celebrate all our members and volunteers after the long work shift of 10-6pm on Oct 6th.

Note from Talk:
“You mentioned @peter but they won’t be notified because they do not have access to this category. You will need to add them to a group that has access to this category.”

Sadly, this celebration post is closed to but a few.

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