 | | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?) —Kelly McKiernan
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| | | (...) That's an unrealistic expectation. (...) I look forward to your announcement of your own LEGO-related event, I'd like to see how that works for you. Good luck with that. (...) Tommy said it well... how can you embezzle your own money? (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?) —Marc Nelson Jr.
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| | | | (...) It's not THAT unrealistic, as Jeff mentioned that he attends other fan events where the organizers work on a volunteer basis. (...) You're right - Christina/Joe/whoever could take the accumulated funds from BF and write themselves a check for (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?) —Jake McKee
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| | | | | (...) I can understand this, but at the end of the day there are benefits in both models: 1. A for-profit has an economic incentive to continue developing positive, fulfilling events. 2. A non-profit model had a higher chance of powering through (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | I've been reading this dicussion, and have a few thoughts: First off, a consideration of what the event coordinator has to put in: - A fair bit of time, sure, not 1000s of hours (for one event), 1000s of hours is a full time job... Hundreds of hours (...) (18 years ago, 11-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | | | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?) —Tommy Armstrong
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| | | | | | (...) I was the one who came up with thousands of hours, and I actually thought about it before writing it which is a bit unusual with me. I was thinking of Christina's total input of hours for the last 5 or is it 6 years. And I would bet she has (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | | | | | Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?) —Don Cox
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| | | | I am really sad that these comments about Brickfest and if Christina and/or Joe are keeping profits and if volunteers are being shafted while whomever is profiting from Brickfest are being spoken. At this point, I don't care. I HAVE attended BF for (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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