h a l f b a k e r y"It would work, if you can find alternatives to each of the steps involved in this process."
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Some big projects don't need dollars so much as hands to get 'em done. What's needed is something analogous to Kickstarter to find willing hands to pitch in when a project needs skilled or unskilled workers for a day, a weekend or longer. It would need to be regional of course but it would be useful,
yes? Maybe a website, maybe a segment on Make TV..
One method to generate a small crowd on demand
Crowd_20gatherer Uses the same principle as looking up at the sky. [Ling, Feb 23 2015]
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[+] Like setting up the new barn, or getting this nasty big tree trunk chopped down, or getting rid of the litter lining the streets, or ... the possibilities are endless. |
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In the meantime searching "gigs" or "jobs" on Craigslist with a word like "volunteer" will give you plenty to do if you have the spare time. Medical test subject, free massage, and fashion models for a runway show were some the opportunities I found. |
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( I wonder if I am between size 2 to 6 ? ) |
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What if the skills you can offer, while technically impressive, don't
seem to be the sort of things that anyone wants ? |
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[pop], you're a size 13 3/4, in a dim room with the light behind
you. Don't push your luck. |
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One benefit of this is that people who were not
gainfully employed but who were bursting with good
advice could have someplace to deposit it. |
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[steamboat]! Long time no see. |
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// people who were not gainfully employed but were bursting with good advice could have someplace to deposit it // |
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That would leave the HB pretty quiet, then ... |
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You might need to pay these people though, in which case this would be "fund crowding". |
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A mixture of clay, straw and horse manure, used to build up the outer layers of bell-moulds for casting the bronze: founding dung |
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Naughty boys throwing gravel at the king: crown ding fun. |
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Dropping bits of your dried fruit biscuit: fig crumb down. |
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/pictures pomloc as the drunk guy showing off
before the crowd as they exhort him to greater and
greater excess/ |
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