Juho

I now constantly worry about Emilia plucking my eyelashes while I’m asleep. Aili’s first words to me were like, “How do you dare sleep next to Emilia with those lashes of yours?” :D

Everything basically started from scratch. A couple of my friends had arranged some minor (2-8 people) LAN parties at their homes. One of them had even convinced our town to lend a small community center for him so he could throw a bigger party. There were around 10 people attending, and that sparked our interest. Could we come up with even more visitors?

We could. I contacted some of my friends and got us networking with each other. Before long, we had our very own bioLAN event at the same community center as before. 20 people attended. We wanted more. This was fun.

As we asked the town council for the third time to lend us the center, they proposed that we could lend another center instead that was bigger and more fitted for a LAN party. Okay, so now we got 25 people in. As the event was now held elsewhere, we thought we could change the name of the event, and as this event was kind of an encore to bioLAN, it became known as NCore.

But as we changed the event venue, it also became apparent that the center could hold more than 25 people, so NCore 2 had 30 people in. Okay, now we were at the limits. 35 people couldn’t possibly fit in the center.

But why stop there? We asked the town council again, and much to our surprise, we got access to a local school. NCore 3 had 40 attendees. Sure, we had to have a registered association for it, but it wasn’t really a big deal founding one.

Now that we had a registered organization, we could do all sorts of stuff. We had status, so we could ask for sponsors for our event. The electricity, the networks, the buffet, basically everything had some strings attached to them. So what next? Hokay. NCore 4. We had no less than 80 attendees. Talk about evolution. :)

Sadly, after NCore 4 the organizer crew became inactive as people moved to other cities and had other stuff on their hands. Anyway, it was a blast, and I definitely recommend trying to arrange the best LAN party that you can come up with.

It was the look on their faces.

http://ncore.neonaspect.com/1/
http://ncore.neonaspect.com/2/
http://ncore.neonaspect.com/3/
http://ncore.neonaspect.com/4/

(I’m not really certain whether writing an entry is the desired method for doing this, but I guess it’s okay to try even if I don’t know the 43T system inside out.)

Hey, thanks lasses! I’m really looking forward to seeing my name in the history books, uh, once I’m deceased or something. :P No, seriously, I find it very inspiring that you’re supporting my goal even though to some it might seem utopistic, and you don’t personally know me. (Yet.) Who knows, maybe this site really has a point. I initially thought that although the concept of 43Things was brilliant, it might only prove time-consuming rather than serving its purpose of actually helping people getting stuff done. In turn, people like you are steadily restoring my faith. :)