[sudo-discuss] [omni-discuss] [omni-finance] finance-wg report back

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Berry Maker <berrythemaker at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Who would best be to advise on the current limitations of coordinating
events at the
> Omni?  Byob for example? Caberet laws, etc.
>
> I'm fairly certain an Omni events collective already exists and it would
be respectful
> to ask about creating one first.

There is an events *working group*, who are doing an amazing job
coordinating all the scheduling, but are also constantly understaffed,
overworked, and underappreciated. I've CC'd them on this email.

I've suggested before that it might help if there were some financial
incentive for people who are willing to help bottomline events. I think it
could make sense to set up a collective that has some profit-sharing
agreement with the Omni, and a strong (contractual) commitment to also host
free events.

Patrik

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Autonomous <autonomous666 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> I don't know the specific codes in Oakland but <100 people generally
means it's a "private party" with no special permission needed. You could
get away with much more if there aren't many people milling about outside.
>>
>> 4 events per month x 99 attendees x $20 cover charge = $7920/mo gross
income.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Berry Maker <berrythemaker at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>> Agreed! Several edm event coordinator friends have asked me about this.
I've heard holding this type of event at Omni is be tricky atm though.
Oakland needs more edm events.
>>>
>>> On Oct 29, 2015 8:07 PM, "Autonomous" <autonomous666 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hosting EDM events in the ballroom could more than make up for the
cash flow shortage:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sfbayedm.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:00 PM, robb <sf99er at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ugg, $2k additional expenses :(
>>>>>
>>>>> i really feel renting the common spaces is our only sustainable &
viable option at this point...along with hosting our own fundraiser events.
>>>>>
>>>>> maybe if we had a prodution collective responsible for optimizing teh
commons for events, we could get more for them ;)
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