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A note on food for all swappers! (2013)

We’ve had questions from a bunch of folks, so we wanted to clarify some things. Epic Skill Swap is bigger this year than it was last year (YAY!), and we’ve had to do some rethinking of our approach to feeding ourselves. In efforts to keep cost down and community up, we opted to have about $20 of each person’s registration fee go to group food this year in order to provide wholesome vegetarian meals. (See website for breakdown of other costs).

Unfortunately $20 is not enough to provide the whole array of meal options–addressing all dietary restrictions–that we might ideally like to have at each meal. To do that, we’d need to raise prices so we could hire a person or group of people to cook for us. Continue reading

It’s That Time! Registration, and On Why Skill Swap Is Awesome (2013)

by Charis Boke, Epic Skill Swap co-founder

Wow. Can you believe it? The workshops are lined up, the registration form is up for signups, the schedule is in the works, we’re rounding up a group of volunteers to help co-ordinate food for the weekend (is this you? Please email us!)…Skill Swap is coming up faster than I woulda thought possible! Continue reading