{"id":2195,"date":"2015-04-13T18:32:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T23:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2015-04-14T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:48:38","slug":"volunteer-bash-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Bash a success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2196\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-12-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"2015-04-12\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" data-wp-pid=\"2196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-12-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-12-1024x758.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We had a great time hosting the Volunteer Bash, and we hope you had a great time attending!<\/p>\n<p>We had a full crowd for three hours, not to mention a very full con-com meeting beforehand.\u00a0Lots of people played carnival games for tickets, and used those tickets to win prizes, while talking to our staff about our volunteer needs.<\/p>\n<p>We also had plenty of interest in volunteering during Penguicon, and one volunteer won a free membership in advance! The line in front of Kalika was long, which is great news for the staff, who want to see everything happen successfully in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to volunteer, there are still plenty of spots open, especially Saturday and Sunday. \u00a0<strong>Email volunteers@penguicon.org to sign up!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2206 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150412_181613-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150412_181613\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" data-wp-pid=\"2206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150412_181613-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150412_181613-1024x758.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We had people playing Jenga and Apples to Apples in a second room, and board member James Hice brought out his photo booth for us, as a tease for the real thing at Penguicon(<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/photobooth\/\">PHOTO BOOTH PHOTOS<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>It just gets better and better, so be sure and thank him for letting us borrow it.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Exploding Kittens<\/strong> playtest went over smashingly, and there were people playing constantly throughout the event, and even a bit after the event as we were cleaning up. \u00a0If <strong>you played at least two rounds<\/strong>, please go to <a title=\"Exploding Kittens Playtesting\" href=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/kittens\/\">2015.penguicon.org\/kittens<\/a>\u00a0to <strong>review your experience<\/strong> for the company who so generously sent us four playtest decks.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve decided to include those playtest decks in the <strong>Penguicon Gaming Library<\/strong>, so feel free to check out the game in two weeks &#8211; just remember it&#8217;s a pre-release version of the game, and take care of it so future attendees can have 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src=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150412_181535-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150412_181535\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-wp-pid=\"2204\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150412_181541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2205 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150412_181541-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150412_181541\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-wp-pid=\"2205\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150412_181626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2207 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150412_181626-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150412_181626\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-wp-pid=\"2207\" \/><\/a> <a 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We had a full crowd for three hours, not to mention a very full con-com meeting beforehand.\u00a0Lots of people played carnival games for tickets, and used those tickets to win prizes, while talking to our staff about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}