Yes, I know, it's aaaaages away and we haven't even done this year's events yet!
But, in light of recent discussions and in the interest of continuing to enable CSTS to be a strong, robust event that everyone can have full confidence in, I thought that it might be good to start a kind of "catalogue of ideas" for global organization and coordiniation while things are fresh in our minds.
A few of the things I'd like to see in 2009 (and going forward) are:
- How To Guide for local organisers (new and old), updated annually and released a minimum of 8 months ahead of events, so that everyone can clearly see what they need to do.
Threads around the verse with ideas/suggestions/discussions:
http://whedonesque.com/comments/16787
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=19&t=34153
- How To Guide for global organisers, updated annually and released in the lead up to calls for nominations for the Global Team, so that everyone can see what the job entails, what procedures and policies must be followed, etc.
- Some policies that event organisers need to agree to - ie. if you want to advertise as CSTS, then your event needs to conform to certain things. This could include policies/procedures for making donation to EN, agreement to maintain financial records and retain them for a set period of time (whether this is retained locally or by global), the window for holding events etc. The policies should be available a minimum of 8 months ahead of events, and be easily available (eg. on the website, accessible to the public).
- Merchandise order forms (rather than email requests or forum posts) - this could make it easier for global to keep track of things, and make it easier for organisers as they'd have a record of their order to match with an invoice, and then match with a receipt.
These are just my thoughts, and it is entirely possible that they wouldn't work in practice. But I figured it was worth having the discussion.
So I guess the purpose of the thread is essentially to brainstorm, to discuss and/or park ideas so they can continue to be discussed once we've completed 2008.
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JenskiJen on Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.