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Regions

Bay Area
DC
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
New York
Reno
Seattle

Essentials

Admin: Documents, spreadsheets, calendars, deadlines, organization!
Build: Setting it all up and tearing it all down. Structures, shelters, shade.
Food Safety
Kitchens: Setting up and managing cooking facilities.
Lighting: Lanterns and cafe lights and other magic to chase the night away.
Logistics: Packing and moving stuff from one place to another.
LNT: Leaving the desert as pristine as we found it, so we are invited back.
Newbies: Help and advice for virgins to Burning Man and newbies to the French Quarter!
Power: Solar, generators, fuel, wiring, grids.
Recruiting
Showers: Designing and running showers for the camp.
Site Plan: Figuring out the layout of our services and infrastructure on playa.
Water: Fresh water in and grey water out.

Active Projects

Baking: Bread, cookies, pizza, muffins, pastry, pies.
Beignets
Cocktails
Coffee: Different beans and roasts, ground, brewed and shared by visitors.
Costumes: Fashion for our space colony circa 1799.
Crawfish Boil
Crepes
Decor
Gumbo
Mardi Gras
Member Kits: Survival packs including passports, medallions, snacks, drinks, energy chews...
Power for Camping
Radio: 88.1 FM, curating content, live shows, local sound setup.
Shade: Large scale shade for frontage and camping areas.
Signage
Silent Disco: Live DJs, curating content for automated shows, headphone charging.
Sparkling Beverages: Champagne, gourmet sodas, crisp effervescent cocktails.
Sushi
Tea: Exotic teas and blends from Asia and Africa served by and for visitors.

Topics of Interest

Bars: Anyone serving any kind of alcohol.
Beer
Blacklight
Body Work
Chocolate
Circus: Aerial, fire spinning, clowns, juggling, etc...
Conversation: Unregulated jibber jabber about anything and everything, Burner style!
Dim Sum: Visitors steam and serve and share dumplings and tea.
DJ Stage
Events: Mardi Gras, Founding Night, Jazz Funeral for the Man
Fermentation: Pickled, fermented, cured, and preserved foods.
Gambling Table
Graphic Design
Honey Wine
Hot Pot: Visitors cook and share exotic meats and veggies in seasoned broth.
Infused Liquors
Jazz Funeral
Karaoke
Kava
Live Bands: Busking and live jam sessions, broadcast on radio and silent disco.
Medical: Members with medical background.
Oysters
Paella
Pianos
Pizza
Printing: Printing posters, shirts, tickets, and signs.
RV Services: Coordinating pumping and power for folks with RVs.
Shelters: Tents, shiftpods, hexayurts, carports.
Table: The finest dining table in Black Rock City.
Tiki
Toilets
Trike: Trike for transporting stuff to and from the Table.
Vehicle: Mutant vehicle that is a theatrical stage and future hub of the camp.
Video: Screens with offworld advertising from the year 1899...
Whiskey
Wine
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