Hello fellow shibes! I run a small web development and hosting company in Austin, Texas and have been looking for a good way to help contribute to dogecoin for a while now and think I might have an idea for a great way to help spread the word! As some of you may know, South by Southwest is coming up in Austin over the next 2 weeks and it is one of the biggest conferences in the world for musicians, film-makers and people in "interactive" industries. Last year over 60,000 people were here for the various conferences; mostly smaller/independent artists, labels and film-makers, as well as the people higher up in the different industries who make the big decisions.

Since so many of these people can hugely benefit from dogecoin, I wanted to get the word out as much as I can. I saw that someone will have a doge-ATM there, which is great but, that's pretty stationary and I think we can do more. Below, I've listed a few ideas I've had for reaching people and getting some publicity (there were over 3000 registered media-attendees last year, just for the music conference).

• Flyers - $150 - Simple printed flyers with info about doge/cryptocurrency and links/qr codes to info, to be posted around town and handed out to the public.
• Street Teams to hand out info - $600 - It would be great if we could get a few people who are actually into doge and crypto to hand out info and possibly wallets/redemption-codes but, at the least we could hire a few people to do it over the biggest days of the conference.
• Preprinted Cards with Info for Artists/Labels and Public with redeem-codes to be sent doge - $100 & $500 Pool - These would be more specifically to hand out to artists, label reps, industry people; etc. Having examples relevent to their interests will help, as will putting one-time use codes to be sent $5-10 in doge. I figure that, if it's made clear that this is real money and not just a coupon or something like that, then that is an amount that most people will at least look into getting. By putting redemption codes instead of using pre-loaded wallets, we avoid the loss of doge for anyone who DOESN'T look further into it and tosses the card.
• Sponsor a Local Music and Event-Listing Site - $2000 - Sonicvaultaustin.com is a popular site for upcoming shows in Austin and, during the week of SXSW, they get over 10k hits a day from people looking for info about what is going on. By sponsoring the site, we can get dogecoin seen by a ton of people, as well as tell them where to find the ATM, more info, etc. Full Disclosure: this is a client of mine.
• Interactive Displays - In the past I've worked on and built interactive displays for different media-events; things like grand-openings, basketball games, etc. Based on some of the things I've done previously, I had a few ideas for displays (large and small) to draw people in a little more:
• * Rotating pages showing info about doge, live-updates of doge and users contributing to the pools supplying doge for all of this, upcoming shows nearby, and simple games that can be played via SMS to win doge
• * A scavenger hunt where each small display gives a clue for the next, with increasing amounts of doge for checking in at each progressing station and a grand-prize for either the first person to complete all of them or a randomly chosen winner from all of the people who do. This can also be accomplished with paper flyers but, honestly, there are so many, all over the place, that they may get covered pretty quickly
• * Use the webcams from the small displays to generate live-streams of people interacting with them and the conference-at-large
• * The small displays could possibly be put inside of venues, if we can raise enough to also buy advertising space
• * Street teams could be posted near the displays, either in addition to or in place of the Street Teams listed above
• * Multiple Small Interactive Displays - $3500 & Display Pool
• * Large Stationary Interactive Display - $3000 & Display Pool
• Air-Drop Doge - $600 & Pool plush shibas - This is probably the most unorthodox idea on the list but, I think that it would be really awesome to use a quadrocopter to drop stuffed Shiba Inus with pre-printed wallets (or redemption codes) onto the crowd on the streets. This would mostly be for the publicity, since it's a more expensive cost per interaction (figure about 50 stuffed dogs a pool of doge for the wallets/redemption codes hiring a quadrocopter pilot) but, if someone were to "win" a few hundred - thousand dollars, that might help the word spread.

In the above, I mentioned "pools" a few times so, just to be clear, what I mean by that is that there would be multiple pools containing doge to support these ideas:

• One pool for doge specifically for artists/labels as mentioned in the 3rd point above
• One pool for doge for people interacting with the displays, playing games, etc.
• One pool for doge to be dropped from a quadrocopter

I'll be out during the festival seeing as many shows as I can and, I intend on telling as many artists as I can about things so, I have no problem with posting flyers, handing out info, etc. To do any more than that, it would definitely take a community effort, since I don't personally have the doge or dollars to put into the really cool things I'd like to do. Each price listed above is an estimate for the individual item so, to do everything listed, it would take about $15,000 or 14.5 million Doge but, we could pick a few items and focus on those for less.

It would be great if we could get a doge-related company to invest and sponsor things but, I didn't get much response when I reached out last week so, I figured I would go ahead and see if there might be enough community-interest to get some of this off of the ground over the next week. Since I realize that this is a pretty big sum of money, if people want to do everything, I'm more than happy to use mitm.io for escrow to hold funds.

If anyone has any questions, ideas or actual interest in helping with some or all of this, just PM me or comment below!

EDIT Since it looks like there is some interest for this, if you want to contribute, please use this wallet: DNjgtpMK6vqmKq4rLhmUhfpgiPiS4bqoxy

I'll go ahead and transfer all of the tips from the thread so far, to there so that everyone can track things.

EDIT 2: I just transferred the 7270 doge from this thread, as well as 900 I found in my tipbot account, bringing the current total to 30,680 doge $300

EDIT 3: /u/MysticFear asked the very pertinent question of who am I? While I don't have any personal information on my site (having my name and picture pop up on one of those scam "Busted!" sites was the last straw), my name is Ruben Ramirez and you can view my business site here. The whois info will verify my name and anyone who likes can email me at: ruben [@] redlotusaustin.com. I also don't mind providing more info to a mod or trusted user.

EDIT 4: HOLY CRAP! /u/aari13 sent 100,000 doge last night!! That brings us to ~132k doge!

While I would really like to do the quadrocopter idea, I think it's best to shelve it for now, unless someone wants to specifically fund all of that.

Dropping that from the list, we come out to about $11,000 total, which I think is absolutely do-able!

EDIT 5: Does anyone have the contact info for the person who will have a doge-ATM at SXSW? I think it would make sense to have a display near that, helping everyone out.