paul wheaton

michael feltheim wrote:I'm curious if the bootcamp is active in winter? My partner and I are super interested and would love to participate, especially in natural building projects.

Also curious if there's a combination set up for more private housing besides the bunk house, but we'd still fully participate in all things boot.

Yup, we run all winter.  Although this year if you wanna be here in the winter, you gotta start november 2 or december 7.  Or maybe rent a cabin.

Stephen is pretty good at getting people set up with a cabin if they want one.  Most folks head for the red cabin.  https://permies.com/wiki/55002/Red-Cabin

It has our newest rocket mass heater



Lots to do in winter  https://permies.com/t/149839/bootcamp-winter#1171986











we finished the berm shed in winter

i get a kickstarter dm

In the age of AI and its impact on both environment and culture, I'm immediately suspicious of any art posted without credit. Can you guarantee that AI was not used in the production of this set?

i reply

We updated the page to talk about andres being the artist. And added it to the faq.

he replies

Lovely, thank you.

After a few hours i don't see him backing.  And the dm thing says "not a backer".  So i write

Are you going to back my kickstarter?

he says

I am not planning on it.

So i guess he is just cruising through kickstarter ranting about ai stuff?

We had a guy ask about the art being done by AI.  All of the art is done by andres.

Kathy Vargo wrote:Maybe adding to your pledge like  $25 to $50 or based on the cost of reprinting First deck.  Since I have no idea what the print costs are or how many you'd have to print to be feasible or how many you think we would be able to get rid of in the Kickstarter, so "it depends" is always the answer.

Lets use the $50 pledge increase, and  you can print just 100 and think the Kickstarter would use those up, then the cost of would need to be less than you would collect with extra pledge money.  In this case you'd get $5,000, so printing needs to cost less to be worth your while.  Lots of assumptions in that example.

If this is the case, i would think it would be smarter to just buy the cards that we have.  You could get them right now - in time for the holidays this year.  

If we wanna talk stretch goals ....   maybe something like $200,000 ...   we could upgrade the old deck to "third edition" and maybe include a few decks for the $100 and up peeps.  

But to even talk about that sort of thing, i would like to see the kickstarter doing a lot better right now.


As is, I have just a few of the old cards left.  And when they are gone, they are all gone.

Kathy Vargo wrote:Glad to have helped.  I know I would like to have purchased the first set of playing cards, but I'm a relatively new Permie, so... Have you given any thought to printing up a small batch of the first set and offering it along with one of the nw set for a possible stretch goal or an additional way to market them?  Please, please please!

Can you give me an idea of what a stretch goal might look like?

        $10,000!

We have a stretch goal!



My SKIP book co-author has been making maple syrup for decades and now has a 73 minute long movie for people to understand the process!

https://permies.com/t/maple-syrup

inching ... inching ...

it will be such a relief to get funded within 24 hours.  

        $8023!