Update #3

This week we were in preparations for the Pop-up Game Café, we have another event next week — the Makers Meetup #7 and it’s been so great to see the community showing up for Largo. Thank you!

Here goes all the details:

Organization

This week there were many working huddles to organize and distribute tasks, in between the campaign and the event organization and communication.

These sessions serve to keep the campaign on track and distributed. By making sure we meet often but not too often, we can spread the workload between us in a way that is fair and sustainable while making space for collaboration.

Donations

And we’ve reached another milestone in donations.

This week we gathered 371.75€ from single donors.

Thank you to:

• Tracy L.

• Bairbre H.

• Christophe G.

• Curtis B.

• Daniela C.

And we gathered 194.40€ from the event (see more details below)

Which brings the total amount of the campaign to: 1917.15€

Which means we have already achieved 4 months of the year of back rent we need to cover!

Thank you all so much.

Here is more details on how the Pop-up Game Café went:

For one afternoon, Largo was transformed into a board game café galore, where all the funds gathered are to help support Largo.

It was so much fun and so many people came! We also had a lot of newcomers getting to know what this space is about, wanting to come back for more.

A giant thank you to Polina and Carlos from Quintaessência, who started this whole thing by donating the pastries and cold brew coffee (here also goes another thank you to Ørigem, who donated the coffee). And to Afonso from Infinite Roll, who joined as soon as they heard, brought their library of games and explained all the games so that everyone could play.

What a great alliance ❤️

This is the accounting balance sheet:

We use a system of base and patron prices, so people can choose to pay a little extra to give extra support to the project. We were so happy to see that 77% of donations were as patrons. You are amazing!

We had a lot of positive feedback and requests to do this again.

Board Games create a great space for people of all ages to play together. This is such a rare occurrence nowadays and it truly made us smile till our faces were sore. So we really do want to make this more often at Largo.

Would you too like to join and help organize more events like this? Let us know!

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For now, if you can, here’s how you can contribute financially:

Bank transfer IBAN: PT50 0036 0548 9910600687589

MB WAY: +351 960 001 270

PayPal: https://paypal.me/largospace

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This week on communication efforts we:

• Continued sharing the campaign with several reshares.

• Many posts on the event Pop-up Game Café: An alliance between QuintÆssência and Infinite Roll to help gather funds for Largo. This is the event page: https://fb.me/e/6v90A9qDl

• Made a call for our community to share what’s the value of Largo to them and we continue getting more testimonials from Largo friends. Will you share yours too?

• People joined and reached out using our WhatsApp community

• Launched the next Makers Meetup happening next Wednesday, July 2nd. Join us in exploring the connection of self-determination—the drive to shape one's own life—and making together, as a collective process of creating, innovating, and learning. Go to the event’s page for more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1383357509622177

• Friends at Innovation Scene sharing Largo in their website, newsletter and social media channels. Thank you Peter for your support and care for Largo.

Documentation

For those of you interested in learning how we are organizing , check out the documents where we are developing and gathering content for this whole campaign.

Our working doc now includes brainstorm ideas, detailed tasks, and publishing plans: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kCQrKVfqwBeQR0rHIn20CM•5RgykU4nji6jpsskuRuo/edit?usp=sharing

Keep track of the campaign progress here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15UvcTEPMtJeHB3DcOGXBqmp5yCBoPC9•nsJ3wimPqEs/edit?usp=sharing

Join us on the project chat to participate in the development conversations, give us your opinions, your feedback and ideas: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GClperfSenTG5bAFjQ6HXk

We would also like to share some other tools we use.

We always prefer tools we can share and use with other people simultaneously.

For graphics design, we use Figma. This lets you have several people working online, on the same file at the same time. And it also has collaborative whiteboard files great for brainstorming.