ORG Raffle!
Update #3: Raffle is now closed! See you tonight!
Update #2: Less than 24 hours now until we close the raffle (tomorrow, noon), so get buying your tickets!
Update: more prize donations - signed copies of Lawrence Lessig’s Code v2 and Andrew Gowers’ Review of IP, and £150 worth of O’Reilly vouchers!
Oh you lucky, lucky people… here comes the inaugural ORG raffle! Tickets are £2.50 each and make excellent Easter gifts.
Prizes include Neil Gaiman’s (signed) keyboard, a signed copy of Bruce Schneier’s Beyond Fear, a set of a dozen Beatpick compilations and a couple of extra special Doctorow donations: a signed author’s galley of his next novel, Little Brother (forthcoming in 2008), and the opportunity to be written into it!
We’ll make the draw as part of our spectacular ‘Support ORG! (and Party)’ 11 April event. All advance purchases (we’ll close the paypal interface an hour or two before the party) will be assigned a paper ticket, then added together with tickets sold on the night for the grand draw, to be selected by our yet-to-be-disclosed special guest.
And if you haven’t registered to attend Support ORG! (and Party) yet, get to it!
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:13 pm
[...] We’ll be running a super-special raffle on the night, with prizes donated by Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman and Beatpick Records. Tickets available in advance. [...]
March 27th, 2007 at 11:51 am
[...] Win the keyboard Neil Gaiman wrote Sandman on. blogs fluffy ireland irishblogs links march [...]
March 30th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
[...] And I’m pleased to announce that our very special guest speaker will be ORG’s pledge founder - Danny O’Brien - who is flying in to the UK from his EFF outpost in San Francisco. What’s more, we’ve got even more treats to add to the ORG raffle - a signed copy of Code 2.0 from Lawrence Lessig, £150 in O’Reilly book vouchers and… wait for it… a signed copy of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property! But remember, you don’t get a chance to win anything, if you don’t buy a ticket (£2.50 each - available now via Paypal or on the night for cold, hard cash). [...]
March 30th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
[...] If I had money, this is the kind of celebrity property I would be spending it on. Writer Neil Gaiman donated a signed keyboard for an auction. They keyboard is the one he used to write most of “Sandman.” [...]
March 31st, 2007 at 11:24 pm
[...] The Open Rights Group (ORG) are having a party! It’s a fundraiser, and the centrepiece is this great raffle. Anyone can participate, whether you’re attending the party or not. I can’t make it to the party but it is coming together as a great event… | Save as PDF | Post to del.icio.us [...]
April 9th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Can I buy raffle tickets even though I won’t be at the fundraising party?
April 9th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Yes you can. As noted in the post above, advance purchases will be assigned a number in the draw, so will be treated just as if you had purchased on the night. Absent winners will be notified asap (Thursday). We have now sold 200+ tickets!
April 9th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Cool. Me and my bf bought 10. Fingers crossed!
April 10th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
[...] SC: Buy a raffle ticket! We have gathered some great schwag, donated by luminaries such as Lawrence Lessig and our patron, Neil Gaiman. [...]
April 12th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Excellent choice of gifts, and I really liked my take-away bag!
April 12th, 2007 at 3:33 am
the Gaiman Keyboard is mine… i have Reclaimed my Objects Of Power…