Boston Child's Play Fundraiser

GPforCP

Hey, if any PA fans are in the Boston area, they should come out to a big Child's Play Fundraiser evening my friends and I are hosting at the Microsoft campus in Cambridge.

It's $10 to get in, which all goes to Child's Play, and we will have free food, a bar, a raffle with cool donated prizes from Bethesda, Microsoft, ThinkGeek and a few others, and a bunch of video games/board games set up so everyone can hang out and have a great night.

All the info should be on our site www.gp4cp.org you can pre-register there. If you can't make it, we also have a chipin widget for online fundraising, every $5 you donate enters you into a raffle to win either Venture Brother's seasons 1-3 or Big Bang Theory Season 1.

Squall

Did you get mod approval for this? You may want to contact them, otherwise this will get locked.

Good luck on your event

GPforCP

Whoops. No.

Who should I talk to?

Centipede Damascus

PM LewieP's StepDad, Larlar, Orikaeshigitae, or Bogey

Quoth

the list of moderators is at the bottom of the main se++ page

World as Myth

I think they'll probably be okay with this

GPforCP

I'm like a digital Robin Hood. I break forum rules for a good cause.

(But I PM'd those guys and asked if it was cool.)

Usagi

Welcome to SE! You might also email or PM Robert Khoo and ask him to tweet about it, get more exposure that way, though he's a super busy dude

GPforCP

If anyone else wants to Tweet about us, like if you know peeps in Boston that might want to come out, we're @GPforCP

JoeUser

GPforCP wrote: »

Hey, if any PA fans are in the Boston area, they should come out to a big Child's Play Fundraiser evening my friends and I are hosting at the Microsoft campus in Cambridge.

It's $10 to get in, which all goes to Child's Play, and we will have free food, a bar, a raffle with cool donated prizes from Bethesda, Microsoft, ThinkGeek and a few others, and a bunch of video games/board games set up so everyone can hang out and have a great night.

All the info should be on our site www.gp4cp.org you can pre-register there. If you can't make it, we also have a chipin widget for online fundraising, every $5 you donate enters you into a raffle to win either Venture Brother's seasons 1-3 or Big Bang Theory Season 1.

You might want to put more information on the website about what will actually happen at the event. All I can tell now is that there are raffle tickets.

GPforCP

I'll be doing a site update tonight with more info.

It's just going to have the word "Awesome" in huge letters.

JoeUser

GPforCP wrote: »

I'll be doing a site update tonight with more info.

It's just going to have the word "Awesome" in huge letters.

Well I live in Cambridge, actually pretty close to where this is going on. Can you give some more details here?

GPforCP

We're setting up a bunch of board games and consoles on TVs in the Lounge at Microsoft NERD in Cambridge Saturday night at 7:00. We have catering from a friend's restaurant, bartenders, and a huge projection screen we'll be playing Rock Band 3 on all night.

We'll be selling raffle tickets during the event for prizes like the oh-so-rare California New Republic t-shirt from Bethesda, a $50 gift certificate for ThinkGeek, some copies of Halo: Reach donated by Microsoft, and a few other things.

We're also going to have some games running from some Boston-area indy developers like Fire Hose Games's new PSN game SlamBolt Scrappers. They'll be raffling off some PSN download codes, too.

Also, everyone that comes gets a set of three awesome posters from Bethesda Softworks. Two from their upcoming game Brink and the New Vegas "All Roads" lithograph.

Hunter

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

PM LewieP's StepDad, Larlar, Orikaeshigitae, or Bogey

Make sure to ask LewieP's StepDad about Hitman 2 and getting your name changed. Refer to him as Pattycakes, it's his unofficial name.

BahamutZERO

This sounds neat, hope you get a big crowd!

M.D.

this sounds pretty cool and if I were in the area i'd attend

The Otaku Suppository

I can't cross go across the river. There be dragons in Somerville and the boroughs beyond.

JoeUser

GPforCP wrote: »

We're setting up a bunch of board games and consoles on TVs in the Lounge at Microsoft NERD in Cambridge Saturday night at 7:00. We have catering from a friend's restaurant, bartenders, and a huge projection screen we'll be playing Rock Band 3 on all night.

We'll be selling raffle tickets during the event for prizes like the oh-so-rare California New Republic t-shirt from Bethesda, a $50 gift certificate for ThinkGeek, some copies of Halo: Reach donated by Microsoft, and a few other things.

We're also going to have some games running from some Boston-area indy developers like Fire Hose Games's new PSN game SlamBolt Scrappers. They'll be raffling off some PSN download codes, too.

Also, everyone that comes gets a set of three awesome posters from Bethesda Softworks. Two from their upcoming game Brink and the New Vegas "All Roads" lithograph.

Cool, something this is the first thing you should have on your site

JoeUser

The Otaku Suppository wrote: »

I can't cross go across the river. There be dragons in Somerville and the boroughs beyond.

Randall Munroe?

GPforCP

Fear not the Somerville dragons.

The Otaku Suppository

JoeUser wrote: »

The Otaku Suppository wrote: »

I can't cross go across the river. There be dragons in Somerville and the boroughs beyond.

Randall Munroe?

Shhh, he'll find you.

Centipede Damascus

They're nothing compared to the Ipswitch dragons anyhow.

The Otaku Suppository

Pretty sure that's dagons

World as Myth

so gabe just retweeted your tweet, I think you're officially approved

I wish there were some lower-brow CP events out here besides the charity dinner

GPforCP

We're not very high brow.

BahamutZERO

she's saying "here" as in on the west side of the country, I think, since the charity dinner is usually held in S.F., I think?

World as Myth

yes that's my point

no offense of course

but in seattle all we really have event-wise is the dinner, which rules, but it's not tremendously accessible

GPforCP

The trick is just coming up with something fun and sending emails to people until it happens.

You'd be surprised how many people are willing to donate the use of their venues and services and whatnot for a good cause.

Calamity Jane

i'd prefer a bar and all this stuff to putting on a suit for all of one occaison

Calamity Jane

a fine idea, guy! what is your twitter

Sheri

World as Myth wrote: »

yes that's my point

no offense of course

but in seattle all we really have event-wise is the dinner, which rules, but it's not tremendously accessible

I wish they had anything in this area

As it is, the only way I could donate this year was through Solid Saints and by donating the Tetris Afghan to the auction

GPforCP

We hit our donation goal today thanks to a potent shout-out from Desert Bus for Hope. We want to raise a bunch more at our physical event, so if anyone's in the Boston area Saturday night, they should come out.

We're going to give Fallout New Vegas posters to everyone that comes, and it's only $10 to get in so that's a pretty good deal.

For more info about the event, check out www.gp4cp.org or follow us on Twitter @GPforCP

JoeUser

Just a reminder that this is tonight; I think I'm going to go!

Tube

This is fine, but please check with us first in the future so we can check it out. Also Kate, please don't clear people on my behalf because if it turns out it's something they can't do I then have to let them down. Thanks, and good luck with your event!

World as Myth

I uh

I didn't?

I posited a guess and pointed out that gabe retweeted it