Best Of

Reminder that we have an Icrontic Calendar and @BobbyDigi, @Garg, and @cola all have write access in addition to Brian and I.

Currently coordinating:

1. QuaranTF2sdays
2. TP Hoarder Jackbox.tv
3. Shelter-in-Cubes Minecraft

If you have any other suggestions or something you'd like to coordinate, hit me up.

On the topic of the fundraiser, I wanna announce that thru the efforts of @Tushon and myself over the past year+, by this time tomorrow we'll have reduced the web server costs from $180/mo to $55/mo while also making the whole setup far more robust. It's been a helluva project and it's finally nearly wrapped.

Hi all, I know, I know. We're a little bit heartbroken too.

What we're reading about COVID-19 leads us to believe we won't be in the clear until August at the earliest. Even if all travel restrictions are lifted by the end of May, we feel it would be irresponsible to put 50+ people in the same house for 4 days. Gatherings of that size may still be banned at that point anyway. Postponing isn't a good option either: It's already hard enough to get everyone here at once, lots of folks are about to eat up all their PTO, and everyone is super stressed out just with their day-to-day.

As many of you know, we fund the annual website budget with Expo ticket sales. About 25% of your ticket cost goes toward this. With that funding gone, we've set up a GoFundMe for the next year of operations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/icrontic-newbuddhist-2020-fund

That leaves Oktoberfest as the next Icrontic event. Thankfully, it appears well out of pandemic cancellation range. What we'd like to do is extend that event by a day and maybe plan a group activity or three to give it a bit more structure. That will be Thu October 29 - Sun Nov 1, with folks welcome to arrive Wednesday. Activity suggestions are welcome.

If folks would like to organize alternate online gaming for the weekend of Expo (or really any time during these semi-quarantine weeks), please reach out and let's chat.

I hope someday this is all just interesting Icrontic trivia: the year we lost Expo.