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Con Before the Storm
@conbeforestorm.bsky.social
Largest By Fans for Fans event hosted at major events like Blizzcon! Focused primarily on Blizzard games & the Warcraft community. In person and virtual events. Event & Account managed by Ceraphus. Discord Partner, Hypesquad Events
Creating a new entity would also delay fundraising as it would require creating a new legal/tax entity, creating new business accounts, etc. These entities would then need to be vetted by fundraising orgs (i.e. Kickstarter).
July 28, 2023 at 8:20 PM
4. The company we worked with to handle tax and legal matters has been unresponsive, so working to figure out those ramifications (taxes, legal responsibility, etc) ourselves has been challenging on next steps.
July 28, 2023 at 8:19 PM
3. Receiving total costs to help determine funding targets took too long from several new vendors, some haven't even responded to our inquiries.
July 28, 2023 at 8:19 PM
2. Several vendors we used in the past, sadly didn't make it through the pandemic and we had to search for new vendors, which required getting quotes for items, services, etc.
July 28, 2023 at 8:19 PM
the organizers do this as a side project, this is not our full time job).
July 28, 2023 at 8:18 PM
Below are just a handful of our challenges we ran up against:
1. Late announcement of Blizzcon put logistical timelines of fundraising, acquiring items, receiving funds and then paying vendors appropriately unrealistic, this left little time to planning the event (reminder…
July 28, 2023 at 8:18 PM
We will look into what we can do potentially virtually in 2023, and will look toward future years as we see how Blizzcon continues to evolve under its new leadership and what that means for our future fan focused pre Blizzcon event.
July 28, 2023 at 8:18 PM
We had several folks reach out offering to volunteer and we appreciate that, and volunteers was never an issue to executing this fan focused event and thats because of the awesome community.
July 28, 2023 at 8:17 PM