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Fri 4 Mar 2016 10:03AM

Volunteers/crew for festival

PM Peter Munthe-Kaas Public Seen by 250

Maybe we should talk about how to practically manage the festival. I imagine that we will need some volunteers, who can help us with things such as check-in, bar (if we want that), information for the people and so on.

I also feel that we should make t-shirts for the crew, so they are easily recognizable. Maybe they could say "authentic as fuck!" :)

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Rolandas Būbelis Wed 9 Mar 2016 10:30AM

It would be more clear to me which and how many volunteers are needed when the list of tasks would be clear.

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Andreas Wolf Wed 9 Mar 2016 1:19PM

I guess we could also iterate us forward, by making a list and describing the tasks, which we already know. Are you up for doing that, @petermunthekaas ?

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Peter Munthe-Kaas Wed 9 Mar 2016 2:07PM

Well.
- check-in
- bar
- cooking?
- cleaning
- information

In general I would expect that we need 2-3 people on duty at all times during the festival to man the functions we need + maybe some more for setup and tear down (depending on how much we plan to decorate/change the spaces.

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Liv Fabricius Wed 9 Mar 2016 2:16PM

I agree with @petermunthekaas that we probably will need 2-3 people the whole time - depending a bit on how many people how will sign up.

An important question is also how we see our own contribution!? I mean, we are a few people already plus more might join. So if we are all willing to give some hours as volunteers for the festival - that is already a lot of hours ;)

So an interesting question would also be to think about how much time would we our selves be willing to put in as volunteers? And how much more is needed?

And I am old fashion - like really borring old fashion - so I would personally not wear the "authentic as fuck" t-shirt, simply because that doesn't feel authentic as fuck for me ;)
I would prefer some other way to make it known that I am in the crew...

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Peter Munthe-Kaas Wed 9 Mar 2016 2:23PM

For me it would make sense that all of us, who are co-creating this take one shift each (or something like that), but I find it important that we also have (plenty of) time to participate in workshops we are not hosting ourselves.

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Paul Lloyd Robson Thu 10 Mar 2016 9:21AM

I would consider having at least one "team leader" over the whole festival and paying that person something, or perhap two people who share the festival between them. That feels like a better place for me to use money rather than paying teachers. If there are new people coming on to take shifts all the time, each time there is a change, then all the information and learning from the previous shift is lost, there is limited knowledge transfer and potentially a lot of chaos.

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Paul Lloyd Robson Thu 10 Mar 2016 9:22AM

And just to make it clear, I do not see myself in the role as a "team leader" or paid festival organiser / coordinator - that should be someone else. It probably wont be a particularly good hourly wage at all that person gets, so should be a person who loves doing it anyway.

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Andreas Wolf Wed 16 Mar 2016 12:04PM

you list is a good start for a plan, @petermunthekaas. i guess we could already start a Google sheet and make an a bit more detailed plan.

@paullloydrobson I have a bit more co-creative vision for the festival. Self-organisation + doocracy ftw. Am not afraid of chaos and knowledge transfer. The tasks won't be super complicated, in my eyes...