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Basic Event Information

• Name: "Geek Eats: Pig Roast"
• Organizer\POC: Omegix 11:03, 8 December 2009 (CST)
• Date: 11/20
• Time: 1PM
• Location: Make Shop
• Cost to Attend: $10 / person, or $15 for two people.
• Silent Auction
• Flier for Pig Roast: File:Pigroast.pdf

Calendar

• February 20 2010, 1:00pm - 3:00pm: Geek Eats Pig Roast

If we get rained out on the 20th, plan is to do Pig Roast the following Saturday on Feb 27th

Description

We gunna roast a pig! Mardis Gras Theme. Alii is organizing a silent auction for the event!

Planned Food

• Roasted Pig
• Jambalaya
• Kool-Aid

Pot Luck Noms

• Beans (Spacefelix can get some)
• Potato Salad (Spacefelix can get some)
• Jambalaya (Preaux can get access to propane burner and pot)
• Alii will make bananas foster on site.
• MrWorld will bring sweet potatoes
• Ratmandu will bring horse pop

Prep Work

• Gotta setup rotisserie
  • Building Pit on Friday Feb 12th
    • Pit has to be covered by a metal grate in order to abide by city laws
  • Testing rotisserie at Chicken Roast
• Hook up motor to automate rotisserie
  • Preaux welded together the first half of the Rotisserie on 1/21/09
  • First rotisserie meetup is for 1/23/2010
• Need to build pit (Preaux recommends having this built two weeks before event: 2/7/09)
• Need to purchase charcoal
• Need to check with the Health Department about serving food (Done we are good to go. 1/28/09 -Alii)

Volunteers

• Omegix
• Preauxphoto
• Spacefelix
• Alii
• MrWorld
• Ratmandu
• Opticron
• Your name here!

Silent Auction Donations

Alii is organizing a Silent Auction fundraiser

• Jayne Hat -Alii's friend Laurie
• Something knitted by Alii, suggestions welcome.
  • How about this?
• Items off of salvage, refurbs, repairs, scrap parts, etc.
• Your donation here

Open House Activities

• MrWorld is engraving and screen printing
• Crashcart says the photobooth is working and available
• Gregabyte can show off the cooler/drink dispenser rig
• Your name / project / demo / talk here!

Pig Preparers: Feb 19th, 7PM

• Omegix
• Preauxphoto
• Your name here!

Pig Preparers: Feb 20th, 6AM

(please note the time, that's six in the morning)

• Omegix
• Preauxphoto
• Opticron
• Your name here!

Hope is that we can get everything set up the night before, and the morning is just throw a match on the charcoal and put on some pig.

Progress

• MrWorld has created a flier for the event. File:Pigroast.pdf Omegix 09:50, 4 February 2010 (CST)
• Preauxphoto and Ratmandu have built the spit for the pig, as well as the A-frames to rest it on ~Jan 22, Jan 23
• Omegix, MrWorld, Brimstone, and Ratmandu have obtained bricks for the pit ~Jan 23

Materials

• Pig (Preaux can get a 40-50lb pig for about $150. Needs the money by the day-before, so probably going to get him cash by Feb 13th.)
  • Preaux got the meats contact to Omegix (Rocket City Meats). Omegix has reserved a 50lb frozen pig for $150 (After tax). Preaux to pick up on the 17th. They need to be called the morning of to setup a pickup time before 4:30pm
  • We can recoop the cost of the pig by charging about $7 a head for the event.
  • Jeff can cover $50 up front costs for the pig. Need to cover an additional $50
  • Brian can cover $50 up front costs for the pig.
  • Opticron can cover $50 up front costs for the pig.
  • Preaux is arranging pickup and transport of pig to the event.
• Preaux has access to a rotisserie
• Charcoal $35 (The cheap stuff from Publix is $7 / 10lb bag)
  • Charcoal needs a financial sponsor

Needs

• if you can supply any of these items please do so
  • Meat Thermometer to ensure 170º Internal Temperature
  • " Burn Barrel" container to start coals in AKA. metal 5gal bucket
  • Chicken wire for tying pig to rotisserie spit.
  • Cinder blocks (may be able to get bricks from next door to the shop)
  • Charcoal (10lbs of charcoal per hour of cooking. 1 hour of cooking per 10lbs of pig. So 50lb pig will require 50lb of charcoal. Assuming $70 in charcoal, need to get actual price from wal-mart)

Advertisement

Completed

• IRC Channel Topic
• Public Service Announcement submitted to NPR Omegix 12:25, 4 February 2010 (CST)
• Facebook Event - Omegix 01:12, 5 February 2010 (CST)
• Web Page - Omegix 01:12, 5 February 2010 (CST)
• Phone call to Huntsville Times informing them of event, inviting them to attend - MrWorld
• General List - jeff contacted
• News Paper - Brian contacted

To-Do

(Anything in here needs a volunteer associated, or we can assume it won't be done)

• Fliers - MrWorld has created flier. Now to hangs them up.
  • UAH
  • Monkey - brian to hang
  • Bandito
  • Olde Towne - Alii to hang
  • Kenny Mangos
  • Atlanta Bread
  • Panera Break - Alii to hang