Hello everyone,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended this year’s party.
It was a blast like always. It was great to see everyone again from the RPF and some new faces.
With your continuing support we can keep this an annual event to look forward to.
There is always room for improvement next year, like plates and napkins.
I’m pretty sure that everyone enjoyed themselves.
I think the raffle prizes were great. We had 33 prizes in total!!
Of course the thanks goes out to the generosity of the community.
I was overwhelmed at one point when I realized how many great prizes we had.
Every year I’m consistently blown away by the quality of the stuff people are crafting and the varieties of materials that are available.
I’m so pleased I was able to speak to most of you in person. We have some really top-notch talent in our community and we should all be proud of that.
One thing I would like to see more of in the future is buying, selling, and trading. I know a lot of you did do that and it was nice to see. I had an idea for a section of the room to be laid out specifically for buying, trading, and selling. We can put it right next to the demo tables. The demos and tutorials will be given more time next year. It was nice to see Alex’s vinyl cutting demo and hear Dave talk about Arduino.
Some people who attended may not have heard, but David from UD Replicas brought his Superman prototype and was showing it off for the first time at the prop party. What a treat that was! Thanks David, great stuff!
We had a real life R2D2, a Terminator, 3 KITTs, a BTTF Delorean and B-9, oh my!
I can continue to thank everyone and site all the highlights but then I would never finish writing.
I’d also like to give a personal thank you to John Anderson(Dr_Slurpee) for helping me get everything organized and running the show while I was on vacation. I couldn’t have pulled it off this year without John.
Also, thanks to Michael Bergeron for doing a great job with the nametags. I think it’s a nice touch for the regular members to get their own personal nametags and it shows how important you are to the success of these events.
On that note, I’ll close by saying thanks again to everyone for showing your support this year and hopefully next year will be even better. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to contact me personally.
Thanks again everyone,
~Andrew Portelli.