BM2K3 Plans, part 1.
Feb. 21st, 2003 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tugrikIntially these posts will be left public-viewable. If they get too common, too long or too annoying I'll start locking them down to just the group that's going with us this year to keep from spamming others' friends-lists. More than likely it'll just be Revar, two or three others and myself going. If we actually score interest with a wider group of friends and it turns into a nice mob I'll start up a separate LJ just for this year's camp. Until then I'll use my own journal.
Not counting individual preparation/survival, a basic categorization of what we need to get together is as follows:
Revar is already starting work on the first one. We have some interesting options coming together. I'm working on the second, and trying to score us a fuel-cell stack to power the camp. The third is something we're both going to tackle together but we're definately hoping for more input on.
The fourth has always been our biggest problem. We never seem to get a coherent theme together in time... and end up being Yet Another Geek Camp. Heck, one year, we even had a sign that said that: YAGC. I still have that around somewhere. This is where we hope the new folks attending for the first time will step in and help. Not only do we need some kind of unifying idea but then we need to start working on the bits to support it: artwork, decoration, costumes, activities. Even if you're not going with us, please, suggest things! Actually having a theme before summer is here would be an amazing first, and it would help us steer our purchases and efforts towards something coherent.
As we make progress on each main category I'll post updates
Not counting individual preparation/survival, a basic categorization of what we need to get together is as follows:
- A group shelter, as our PVC dome of four years is finally dead.
- An energy project to go with the Alternative Energy Zone village theme, as we're no longer doing solar/wind like before.
- Toys. We must do more light-toys, camp-toys, tech toys. This is why we go. What to do this year? (this is the fun part!)
- A theme! We need a theme!
Revar is already starting work on the first one. We have some interesting options coming together. I'm working on the second, and trying to score us a fuel-cell stack to power the camp. The third is something we're both going to tackle together but we're definately hoping for more input on.
The fourth has always been our biggest problem. We never seem to get a coherent theme together in time... and end up being Yet Another Geek Camp. Heck, one year, we even had a sign that said that: YAGC. I still have that around somewhere. This is where we hope the new folks attending for the first time will step in and help. Not only do we need some kind of unifying idea but then we need to start working on the bits to support it: artwork, decoration, costumes, activities. Even if you're not going with us, please, suggest things! Actually having a theme before summer is here would be an amazing first, and it would help us steer our purchases and efforts towards something coherent.
As we make progress on each main category I'll post updates
