SO!(aP) a success - raffle winners announced
Last night’s inaugural Support ORG! (and Party) event was a huge success - thanks to everyone who came. We signed up over a dozen new supporters, with dozens more walking away with supporter forms tucked inside their free culture goodie bags. Danny O’Brien’s speech was characteristically rousing, and Dave Rowntree did a great job as our raffle puller. A pool of photos is growing on Flickr, as revellers recover from their hangovers and get uploading their photos (if you’re uploading photos of the night to Flickr, please tag them “openrightsgroup”).
Thanks to all the volunteers who made the night go so smoothly - Glyn, Sheila, Chris, Janita, Felix - and to Tim, Andrew and Johnny V for sounds and visuals. Thanks to Ian and Lee at Bar Kick, to No2ID, Genewatch, Magnatune, Canonical, O’Reilly and Beatpick for their contributions to the goodie bags, and to EFF and Mind Candy for some last minute schwag. Thanks to all our celeb raffle donors, and big, big thanks to Michael for pulling the whole thing together so artfully.
And now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for… the ORG raffle winners:
- A signed copy of Lawrence Lessig’s Code 2.0 goes to Kimberley Gahramt
- A signed copy of Bruce Schneier’s Beyond Fear goes to Karen Molden
- A signed copy of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property goes to Grant Slater
- Neil Gaiman’s signed keyboard goes to Ben Goldacre
- £90 of O’Reilly vouchers goes to Laurie Rich
- £60 of O’Reilly vouchers goes to Zach Robinson
- The 12 CD Beatpick compilation goes to Lawrence Lessig (you should have heard the cheers that one got on the night)
- And the chance to be written into Cory Doctorow’s next book and receive a signed author’s galley goes to Graeme Sutherland
Congratulations to all our winners. Michael will be getting in touch with those of you who weren’t at the party to collect your prize soon to arrange delivery. Commiserations to those who were less successful, but take heart in the knowledge that the money you’ve spent on raffle tickets is going to a very good cause.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
[...] Update: Becky sums up the raffle and the night over on the ORG Blog. And tagged photos of the night on flickr. tags: gra online rights writing [...]
April 12th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
12th April 2007: ORG party aftermath etc….
There’s a quick summing-up by our lovely and esteemed Executive Director Becky Hogge, along with photos, on the ORG Blog entry for the evening….
April 13th, 2007 at 7:15 am
I’m not bitter that I didn’t get the signed copy of the Gowers Review.
No. Not bitter at all.
*grumble*grumble*grumble*
April 13th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Hey
I came along to this event as a guest of someone else who was a member.
I did ask a few people what ORG is and does, but it really wasn’t that clear to me.
All I’m saying is, as an event to attract new lay members, I don’t think it clearly explained why people should join ORG or what the organisation is. I was given a flyer saying it was a body that put journalists in touch with people working on digital rights issues, but it seems more like a campaigning body.
I think if you want to attract new paying members at your events, you need to be clearer about who you are and what you are doing.
Overall though I thought it was alright as an event.
April 13th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Mike - thanks for the feedback.
April 14th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Top party all - thanks and well done. And thanks to Dave for being a good sport and adding to life’s rich store of drummer jokes.
April 14th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I read Mike’s comment to say you can’t please all the people all the time.
Many people who showed up will only have done so because of what ORG does, or were persuaded by a friend who does understand. And those who do might not appreciate it being reiterated to them at length.
Amyway Mike, we’re glad you came to the party. Glad you made it to the web site where what ORG does is set out pretty clearly. And let’s hope you like it and join up!
April 14th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Actually, I don’t think the website is particularly clear about what ORG does, either. But this post is probably not the place for that discussion…