How to use Event Checkins and List of Your Events
For those going to an OzBargain meetup, please ask the organiser or a co-organiser to check you in.
For meetup organisers, please
- Make sure you check in everyone that comes. Make another user or two as "co-organisers" to help you check in.
- Scan or take photos of all the receipts, and email them to me [email protected]. Make sure you include (1) the location of the meetup, and (2) your bank account or PayID for reimbursement.
This is the forum post that some of you guys have been waiting for — a placeholder for all the OzBargain birthday meetups in 2024. We have been running these IRL meetups in November each year since 2017, and last year the OzBargain meetup organisers put together 29 events where 565 ozbargainers get to meet and share a meal together. We will be doing the same again this year —
- Someone from the OzBargain community might want to organise an event locally
- Other OzBargain users will want to attend those events
- OzBargain will sponsor those events
There will be a new OzBargain T-shirt this year to be given out exclusively at the meetup events, in Aussie green & gold with "OzBargain verified Not A Bot" at the back. Finger crossed that the factory I found on Alibaba can deliver those shirts on time though.
Process will be similar to last year. To organise an event:
Post a new thread in Site Discussions with "OzBargain 18th Birthday - <Location> Meetup" in the title. Use the thread to discuss with the community to work out preferred date/time & venue. Please note that the meetup event must be in November 2024.
Update the title with date/time and venue when it's confirmed, and I'll add your post into the list of events. A poll will be created to allow users to confirm who will be coming.
For the rest of this post, I'll be copying the snippets from last year's, and I will highlight the changes.
Organising events
Budget for the 2024 events will be updated to strictly $45pp (due to increase of cost of living), which should cover food, venue and/or activities.
Try not to duplicate the location. For example if someone has already organised a meetup somewhere in Parramatta, don't organise another one even if it's at a different venue or date.
Please have all the events posted up before the end of October. We will not accept any new meetup requests after 31st of October.
Some budget examples copied from last year,
- BBQ or pizza at public park (with coupons, of course)
- Everyone orders UberEats / DoorDash / HungryPanda to eat at the beach and send receipts to scotty for reimbursement
- Cheap eat in a cafe / restaurant
We are not able to sponsor alcoholic drinks in these meetup events. Some people might want to consume alcohol at meetup events, and that can be done at their own expense.
Add the tag ozbargain18 to your posts.
Soft cap of organising up to 2 meetups. We are going to limit the number of events one can attend this year (see under "Attending events" below) and we don't want people to get around the limit by being organisers of multiple events.
Attending events
You can attend at most two events that you are not organising. We did have that clause last year but we still have quite a few people attending 5+ events, so we will be putting a hard cap this year, i.e. you won't even be able to click on "Yes I am attending" if you are already registered for 2 events.
OzBargain meetups are strictly users only this year. In the past there were some leniency for partners, children or other family members that don't have OzBargain accounts. However for this year we decided that one must have an OzBargain account to be part of the meetup.
We won't allow "new accounts" from participating in meetups either. In the last couple of years we had accounts created just to have free meals at OzBargain meetups, and then never logged in again.
Frequently Asked Questions
These are some of the questions asked by organisers and attendees.
Q: How can we get the OzBargain T-shirts this year?
OzBargain T-shirts this year would be gold/yellow text on green — I've given the Pantone code to the manufacturer however they will probably just pick whatever in their inventory that's closest. The delivery of the T-shirts is also delayed (as of 18 Oct) due to Chinese national day holidays and material change. Currently no ETA but I'll work with the organisers once I have received the shirts, so I can forward those to organisers in different states. I'll put the design here when the manufacturer sent me a photo of the test print.
300 shirts are ordered this year, and I'll try to distribute them amongst organisers, so that they can be given out to ozbargainers during the event. Not everyone is going to receive a free OzBargain T-shirt of their sizes — consider that as a bonus rather than entitlement.
Organisers: please do not promise the availability of T-shirts.
Update 31 Oct: looks like it might get to the organisers near the last week of November
Q: Can we bring family members and kids to OzBargain meetups? Will the cost incurred by them be paid by OzBargain?
OzBargain meetup events this year are for OzBargain members only — you need an OzBargain account (that's not recently created) to register for meetup events. Our meetup budget of $45 per person is also for OzBargain members only. You can bring your family or friends to OzBargain meetups. However if they are not registered to the event, they aren't sponsored.
Q from organiser. How is OzBargain paying for my event?
The sponsorship works by reimbursing the cost of the event. So
- As an organiser, please pay for the venue and food first. Use the reward cards if you wish to collect points. However please keep all your receipts.
- Send the receipts to my email address scotty@<this domain>. Make sure you take good photos and the numbers on the receipts are readable. Please also include your banking details (BSB/Acc or PayID) in your email so I can reimburse you.
- I'll do a fund transfer to your bank account.
This post is work in place. I'll keep everyone updated when we move closer to November and event features get implemented.
@roughana: Also mobile data inside the venue was patchy; took ages to log into Eventbrite to the point where impostor just looked me up on his list instead (and I'm on Telstra)