Hey everyone, thanks for clicking this thread.
TL;DR - Bryan (MrSlagovich) wants to fly from Scotland to California to meet up with me for a week and record a documentary of the whole thing. He could really use your help raising the money, because the round-trip plane ticket will cost $1200 USD. If you'd like to know why we want to meet, keep reading. Thanks
Bryan and I have been friends for over 4 years now. In fact we consider each other to be best friends even though we've never actually been in the same room together before. It's crazy to say that one of my best friends practically lives on the other side of the planet but that's just how things ended up happening. We first met back when UGX was still a little off-shoot forum from ZM that nobody knew or cared about. Back when Comosea was still in development.
We've been playing around with the idea of meeting each other for a couple years now and we think it's finally time to do it, but it's going to cost a lot of money. The plane ticket is going to be roughly $1200 USD because summertime flights are always more expensive than wintertime, and we don't have time to spend a week together during the school year.
Bryan has been saving money for this trip for over a year but he's still only about half way to the goal. We dreamed maybe there would be some overly generous people out there who would be willing to throw a few bucks in to help make this happen and get Bryan closer to his goal. He went ahead and set up a GoFundMe so that people can see his progress and his story. You can read his side of this story on the GoFundMe page.
Bryan's never been to America before and I want to show him one of the best places you can visit: San Francisco, California. I'll take him to all the sights and food attractions in the area and he'll be filming the whole thing with an action camera (hopefully a GoPro if he can afford one soon). At the end of the trip he's going to make a video out of the whole thing and post it online for everyone to see. We're also going to try to record a video podcast on location in San Francisco if we can get the equipment.
So if you'd like to help make this happen, please visit the GoFundMe page and consider a donation. Literally any amount helps and it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
PS: yes I abused my admin powers to frontpage this non-UGX related post
-Andy (treminaor)