I am increasingly struck by how many recent kickstarters are either indistinguishable from evites or deal with projects that any reasonable person could bootstrap on their own...
It seems there's a lot of "free money" and easy attention flowing through kickstarters that I also find troubling.
Especially with anything video game related that kind of comes off as just "online begging." You have companies like "River West Brands" that "acquires, redevelops, and monetizes iconic brand intellectual property" and has put out a kickstarter to remake the Colecovision http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rantmediagames/colecovis...
Oh ok, just curious! I didn't really understand why the event would cost so much money? Wasn't the whole spirit of the homebrew club kind of antithetical to an expensive event? Are people in the club asking for money to attend? Definitely not trying to take away from what you're doing because I think it's really cool, just wondering.
Most of the money that we're raising is going towards catering (it always shocks me to see how much catering costs). Some of the money will also go towards flying out original Homebrew members. The rest will go towards the costs of running the event, things like tables, chairs, a photographer, etc.
I am increasingly struck by how many recent kickstarters are either indistinguishable from evites or deal with projects that any reasonable person could bootstrap on their own...