Good work on the ticketing thing!

I've always wanted to do a Burner event where the tickets were 'stacked', and distributed by the recipients..

It would work like this:

You select, say, 10 core members of the community. Past event producers, key artists, a couple of the theme camp organizers, etc. A good representation of the "do-ers" in the local Burner community.

You give each of them 100 tickets.

They distribute those tickets in groups of 5 or 10 to whoever they choose. You trust them to distribute the tickets to people who are going to be good to have at the regional event. People who get the culture, are down to be participants rather then spectators, people with clever new ideas, and the old hands who 'it just wouldn't be the same without you!'

Those people then distribute their tickets - in groups or singly - using the same logic, to their network of selected recipients.

Then, the day of the event...

People show up at the gate, and they get a colored wrist band, that identifies which of the 10 'original' people was the source of this ticket.

If you notice all the people with the blue wristbands are fantastic burners and totally making the event awesome, you know who to thank/appreciate.

On the other hand, if everyone with a yellow wristband is a sexual predator and making people uncomfortable at the event, people can address the issue with the person who was responsible for distributing the yellow tickets.

It is community accountability on a large scale.

And hey... if you didn't get invited (didn't get a ticket), then you have some self reflection to do!

If you invited someone who turns out to be a dud or a problem-child, then you have some apologies to make to the person you got your ticket from, AND the community at large.

Talk about an intentional, thoughtful, and engaged community! This would be amazing, I think.

Maybe you should do that next year.

It sure is easier than a lottery. :-)