[wsfii-discuss] wsfii About Volunteering

Thu Sep 22 23:17:18 UTC 2005

>Hi guys
>Just picking up on various points to do with volunteering.
>I know you guys want to have it all warm and fuzzy with people just doing
>stuff out of enthusiasm, but eventually it wears thin.  That's why we have
>complementary currencies to give people some acknowledge for effort, so what's
>all this talk about volunteering?  Has anyone read anything I wrote on the
>letslink.org wiki about the transaction engine? - probably not I realise
>You need to log on and go to the Community Portal to get to the link.
>Anyway, the point is that the community which is organising the conference
>can award "hours" to the volunteers.  If you do negotiate a commission on the
>luncheon vouchers which gives you a margin for free dinners for volunteers,
>they can exchange some of what they earn for paper currency and buy lunch
>with it.  The volunteer hours are recorded on a passbook, which serves as a
>time-sheet.  So together with the vouchers you have two ways of 
>trading off-line.
>A third way would be paper cheques.  Time-sheets and cheques have to be put
>online later, but the administration can be done by anyone's whose job it is
>- assuming many of the traders don't have computer access - just like anyone
>can have access to the wiki - so the admin is not locked-in to one computer.
>The balance of people's volunteering hours is kept on their account for them
>so, it doesn't "die" when the event is over, but is there to be 
>drawn upon later.
>As previously mentioned, we hope there will be a draft passbook tomorrow.
>..M
>
>
>
>>On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:37:40PM +0100, Saul Albert wrote:
>>>  - A heartfelt appeal for assistance with housing people (you'll get in
>>>    for free!) The sofa network is a bit too point-to-point at the moment
>>>    :)
>>
>>nod, most of it is informally sorted out but it would be good to have
>>more reserve space, we'll probably need it. the 'add your personal
>>details to the wiki page' approach doesn't seem to be working out,
>>though, really for buyers or sellers of free sofa space.
>>
>>in addition to focusing on interest groups - e.g. getting locals with
>>particular interests to host those sharing their interest - we
>>probably do need one contact person who can broker this and who can be
>>'call person X' if anyone gets stuck. i would rather not be that
>>person, if necessary, nor should you be saul. i suppose we could
>>manage a token remuneration to do this. so we *do* need a volunteer
>>housing coordinator. ideally before we ask for more help housing, to
>>have someone to point to.
>>
>>>  - we need volunteers! We're not sure what for yet. Usually stuff like
>>>    watching the door, setting up network / equipment, problem solving,
>>>    rigging, streaming etc.. It would be great to set up a 'volunteers'
>>>    page - and make sure that everyone who volunteers can be allocated tasks
>>>    by next week..
>>
>>jo at frot:~/wsfii$ grep '|on|' registered.txt|wc -l
>>31
>>
>>is how many people have said they will help while filling in the
>>registration form. it's always nice to solve social problems with
>>software, i wonder how far carried away we can get allocating things
>>to people, i already want scanned copies of the building plan ;P
>>
>>>  - finally, we need to clarify the payment situation. Payment is not for
>>>    entry, but for membership of WSFII (limehouse town hall requires this
>>>    as a condition - we can't charge for entry to the building). So we need
>>>    to tell people to bring a tenner membership fee... OR let us know if
>>>    they can't afford it so we can let them pay whatever they can afford,
>>>    and of course, if they join the sofa network or volunteer, or are
>>>    actually persenting, we dont' want them to pay anyway.
>>>  - finally, I think it would be great if we could cross-publicise a bit,
>>>    and link to NODE.London (http://nodel.org) and broadcast that
>>>    there are other relevant events going on that people might want to go
>>>    to.
>>
>>okay all this information and excitingness must clearly be included
>>more explicitly in any nagmail that we send to thousands of people.
>>
>>i have to jump offline now, sorry, anyone is free to change the
>>reminder ;) otherwise i will help fix it tomorrow.
>>
>>
>>-jo
>>
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