[Groop]Groop Membership Cards

Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:00:56 EST

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Since you asked for opinions on the card content:

Since Nick Smith was kind enough to offer to make these up, I think we should 
be kind enough, in return, to not make it a huge undertaking for him. 
Unfortunately, having individual membership numbers or our groop names 
(which, by the way, not all of us have, especially not the lurkers--hey out 
there!  Don't be afraid to post!  Most of us don't bite!) would make his job 
very complicated.  Unless all our groop membership numbers are the same--that 
would be a very Grooish thing to do.

I support whoever said that, since the Groo Crew already signs everything, 
there is no sense in having places for them to sign.  Besides, that just 
makes more work for them and would take up time at cons that they could be 
either meeting with other Groo fans, signing Groo stuff, or, in Sergio's 
case, drawing Groo pages with his toes under the table during panel 
discussions (a joke either ME or Jeff Smith made at a panel at Mid-Ohio Con).

I like the idea of the cards being Jerkin Orange, though finding business 
cards in Jerkin Orange to print them on would be a challenge.  An alternative 
to having the cards printed by a company is to go to an office supply store 
and buy blank business card paper (thicker than regular paper, but not quite 
as thick as cardstock and designed to go through your standard desktop 
printer).  Mine cost somewhere around $7 for 250 cards, though, again, I do 
not think Jerkin Orange is a standard color.  Most desktop publishing 
software has setting to print cards on such paper, and it would be a simple 
matter to make them double sided on your basic home printer.

As far as the text goes, in the interest of not making more work than 
necessary, I think it might be best to have all the cards be the same.  Larry 
Steller's proposed text covers the basics, and we definitely want to 
incorporate cheese dip and mulch in there somewhere.

If we want to be able to sign and laminate them, here is a particularly 
complicated way of making it happen:
Step 1:  Print the cards up with a place for them to be signed.
Step 2:  Mail the cards, unlaminated, to everyone who wants them
Step 3:  Everyone signs their cards
Step 4:  We all mail our signed cards and a self-addressed stamped envelope 
(the SASE with US stamps might be a little complicated for foreign 
groopies--this is not a perfect plan), to whomever is in charge of lamination
Step 5:  That person laminates the cards
Step 6:  The laminated cards are put in the SASE that was sent with the card 
and mailed back to the Groopie from whence they came.
Alternately, steps 4-6 could be eliminated and we could all be in charge of 
getting our own cards laminated.

Janet "I don't write short emails" Harriett

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<HTML>Since you asked for opinions on the card content: 
 
Since Nick Smith was kind enough to offer to make these up, I think we should be kind enough, in return, to not make it a huge undertaking for him. Unfortunately, having individual membership numbers or our groop names (which, by the way, not all of us have, especially not the lurkers--hey out there!&nbsp; Don't be afraid to post!&nbsp; Most of us don't bite!) would make his job very complicated.&nbsp; Unless all our groop membership numbers are the same--that would be a very Grooish thing to do. 
 
I support whoever said that, since the Groo Crew already signs everything, there is no sense in having places for them to sign.&nbsp; Besides, that just makes more work for them and would take up time at cons that they could be either meeting with other Groo fans, signing Groo stuff, or, in Sergio's case, drawing Groo pages with his toes under the table during panel discussions (a joke either ME or Jeff Smith made at a panel at Mid-Ohio Con). 
 
I like the idea of the cards being Jerkin Orange, though finding business cards in Jerkin Orange to print them on would be a challenge.&nbsp; An alternative to having the cards printed by a company is to go to an office supply store and buy blank business card paper (thicker than regular paper, but not quite as thick as cardstock and designed to go through your standard desktop printer).&nbsp; Mine cost somewhere around $7 for 250 cards, though, again, I do not think Jerkin Orange is a standard color.&nbsp; Most desktop publishing software has setting to print cards on such paper, and it would be a simple matter to make them double sided on your basic home printer. 
 
As far as the text goes, in the interest of not making more work than necessary, I think it might be best to have all the cards be the same.&nbsp; Larry Steller's proposed text covers the basics, and we definitely want to incorporate cheese dip and mulch in there somewhere. 
 
If we want to be able to sign and laminate them, here is a particularly complicated way of making it happen: 
Step 1:&nbsp; Print the cards up with a place for them to be signed. 
Step 2:&nbsp; Mail the cards, unlaminated, to everyone who wants them 
Step 3:&nbsp; Everyone signs their cards 
Step 4:&nbsp; We all mail our signed cards and a self-addressed stamped envelope (the SASE with US stamps might be a little complicated for foreign groopies--this is not a perfect plan), to whomever is in charge of lamination 
Step 5:&nbsp; That person laminates the cards 
Step 6:&nbsp; The laminated cards are put in the SASE that was sent with the card and mailed back to the Groopie from whence they came. 
Alternately, steps 4-6 could be eliminated and we could all be in charge of getting our own cards laminated. 
 
Janet "I don't write short emails" Harriett</HTML>

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