My plan is to buy 200 acres about 30 minutes west of Portland, including an old boarding school. The property has a dozen buildings including 150 bedrooms (mostly dorms, some apartments and houses), a big commercial kitchen and some smaller kitchens, 14k sqft of wood / welding / auto shops, 100k sqf...

I'm trying to organize a big coliving / maker / permaculture / burner / ... community project near Portland. Not gonna pitch it here, in an attempt to avoid moderation. Message me if you'd like to know more.

Yeah, I've been on some of those teams. I'm already reaching out to the land owners I have contact with.

I find myself needing to convince a conservation land trust that burners (in general, not a specific existing regional burn event) are not equivalent to the people ruining campsites in national parks. While LNT and playa restoration stories about BRC are easy to find, I'm looking for something less ...

My first take would be to encourage 'public Art and installations' in the part that is open during the day; give it a voluntary, strong 'local, family, community' feel. That's definitely part of the plan! Keep any adult related stuff in the 'private area' of the woods and all camping in the open fi...

Suppose you wanted to organize an event similar to Transformus, Firefly, Burn in the Forest, or any of the other mostly-wooded regional burns, but the land has a quirk... Most of the forest is open to the public during daylight hours. A small amount of forest and some open field space could be priva...

Are you familiar with Arrow's Impossibility Theorem ? It's about voting. There are three traits an ideal voting system should have, and this guy proved it's actually impossible to satisfy all three. Every voting system must give one of them up to achieve the other two. That's the situation here. You...

Eric wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 31, 2019 3:33 pm

I'm not sure why anyone would want to take an image after the Man & most burnable art is already gone, but it's their money.

I believe the Sunday being referenced here was six days ago.

"Satellite Sunday"

Is it expected/known that someone(s) will be tasking satellites for photos on Sunday each year? I've seen people in the past do things in the dust that they expect to show up on sat photos, but without knowing which day they would be seen.

Now I know that when future newbs ask the same questions this October, I can just tell them to wait for July before committing, when there will be a lot more (and more reputable) camps recruiting. That would be inaccurate at best, completely wrong at worst. The camps that are still recruiting in Ju...

I would really appreciate not derailing this thread and clogging my notifications with unrelated messages.

I'm not arguing the rest doesn't exist. When you consider every part of the rules together, you get a ban on motorized surfboards.

I don't care what reddit does or doesn't do. I don't go there. I do care about misinformation. Perhaps care more about reading comprehension? I didn't say anything about what reddit does or doesn't do. I referred to this forum's feature for inlining content from reddit, which you interpreted as me ...

Sparr. Don't quote a redit post they leave things out. [...] Go to the Official burning Man page and figure it out for yourself. I linked the reddit post, the official burning man page, and the borg planning slide deck. Read whichever one(s) you want. If you're upset about the forum inlining reddit...

https://burningman.org/event/art-perfor ... protocols/

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ ... slide=id.p

mdella wrote: ↑

Sat May 18, 2019 2:36 pm

I actually was spending time this year sitting around looking at the boards as an alternative way around the playa.

Bad news, they aren't allowed any more. Too big, too fast, too able-to-keep-going-forever-if-the-rider-falls-off.

With an aspect ratio so close to 1:1, I have to ask what drives the rectangle-ness of your plan? You will save a lot of organizational and logistical headaches down the line if you make it 30x30 or 36x36 instead.

I ran into this crazy rule last year. Because my camp was conceptually affiliated with an off-playa nonprofit of the same name, I was forbidden from seeking people on this forum to join our rideshare (and/or camp with us?). I didn't make a list of all the other "violators" in my arguments with the f...

Canoe wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 26, 2019 4:19 am

"Working Pedals" refers to part of the rules for an "electric bicycle" under Nevada state law. There is also "Generally recognized as a bicycle" and "2-3 wheels".

That section appears to be a not-entirely-accurate attempt to summarize the relevant (and linked) law.

The requirement for working pedals is going to make some of my plans for small electric vehicles harder, but I think I can still manage. I had a technically-a-moped in high school where the pedals were really just a glorified kickstart and legal requirement than a useful option.

It seems like many of you are ok with keeping deposits from people who skip out on cleaning...

But not ok with later refunding those deposits if the camp gets a green moop score?

How about camps don't invite anyone they don't want to cleanup after for free? Or as a gift? Or just cause they care about how their camp leaves the playa and not what their moop map looks like for next year? An act of love to the Playa itself so-to-speak? Any fee that ends up in someone's pocket r...

In their invite they state that 50% of their MOOP deposit collected from campers ($500/person) is dependent on the overall camp score (something only the last people leaving the camp can influence). My 9-12 person camp makes it very clear and explicit that we keep 100% of your cleanup deposit if yo...

I've been to the event in question. It is not in any way a burn, or even remotely Burning Man related. Some burners show up, there's some fire spinning, that's the whole connection. 90% of the people there are Chicago locals who are just attending a party in the park, watching some spinning performa...

Could they finalize this without approval at the state level?

Also, how specific is the BM location? I know it moves year to year, but I'm not sure how far. Feet? Miles?

Came by yesterday evening but an apparently helpful person told me the event wasn't there Maybe next year!

After the CDL, get ready for California emissions compliance for diesel powered vehicles. The truck I haul horses to Ca and back in is being replaced with a new one because of this, at great cost. https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/onrdiesel/documents/FSRegSum.pdf Thankfully, "motor homes for non-commer...

Re the bus, no mutation this year, just turning it into something like an RV to build a small camp around. https://www.facebook.com/groups/buspatchbrc

Re the CDL, I took the written tests (six of them!) already, but am postponing medical exam and drive test until after BM.

Ah, OK, so all LIT folks have to go to will-call regardless. Hmm. Talk about complicating the rideshare situation. The guidelines about not doing willcall on foot are "should"s, not "must"[not]s. I'm still super wary of taking willcall folks on my rideshare, but I've heard a lot of people are going...

Pfffffffftttttt! What? Whatcha going to do? Liberate green bikes with those bolt cutters? Maybe help a damsel or dude in distress? Cut the lock off of something when the rightful owners can get in touch with the lock owner? Save somebody's day? Wooooo! Yeah damn right you will! Nice! I recently fel...