How To Party

Having a party at Pumping Station: One can be both great fun and a good way to outreach to people from the area who haven't got the motivation to come by before. However, there are a lot of things that you may not realize.

Before Party

• a plan for who is responsible for cleaning up the party
• a schedule: Party Clean Up Procedure
• announcements! Meetup, Facebook, Mailing list(s), blog
• calendar / not conflicting on the calendar / mess not being cleaned up immediately not conflicting on the calendar
• libations
• funding
• donations?
• music?
• sewing and crafts area and equipment safe from party aggro
• clarity of what areas are off limits to non-members during the party except during tours by members with signage
• no accessibility of dangerous equipment
• restrict the space, to make the party more interactive

After Party

• actually clean up, make sure it happens