[LUGSB] Important: Summer Budget

[Jonathan Dehan]

We were to build a fiberglass mold, with the fiberglass and epoxy being some
of the more expensive parts. The plans will be discussed Thursday in more
detail, but just searching instructables on casting and molds and stuff can
give you an idea.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Jeremy Stuart Tocher <chozar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Where will this giant concrete tux be?  Or is this to be discussed
> thursday?
>
> Because that's just awesome.  A great final touch to the new Javits area?
>
> How much does concrete cost?  Was the plan to buy bags and mix in
> wheelbarrows?  Or is this a cement truck sort of deal.  (Sorry, my
> experience with making 6-foot concrete penguins is limited.)
>
> -jst
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Jonathan Dehan <jdehan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We could do that, but it would be less than 1/2 the original size, closer
>> to 2ft than 5 or 6. Or we can make an army of small tuxes ~6 (1/2 foot).
>> Still, we need people to meet on face to face so we can actually go out, buy
>> the materials and start building it. We only have 4 weeks to spend the
>> money.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Ismail <ismailc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Why not just make it a smaller scale?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan Dehan <jdehan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  We have a $400 approved budget from an asked for $850. This was
>>>> originally intended to build a giant concrete tux, but the $400 does not
>>>> seem like its enough to make one on the scale we wanted to.
>>>>
>>>> We are having an emergency meeting this Thursday, July 24th at 19:00 EST
>>>> in the CS lobby.  This is open to all members, and all members are
>>>> encouraged to come and discuss what we are spending this money on so we can
>>>> build/hack/buy it immediately.
>>>>
>>>>  This money MUST be spent, because we are more likely to get better
>>>> funding if we spend it, and less likely to get the same amount if we don't.
>>>> It is OK to spend it on a completely different project, though the
>>>> University prefers permanent stuff over pizza/beer/club monte. Even if you
>>>> have no ideas, I urge you to meet up Thursday, if only to catch up on what
>>>> everyone has been doing over the summer.
>>>>
>>>> - Jonathan Dehan
>>>>
>>>>
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