On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:52:27PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:38:32PM +0100, Kevin Campbell wrote: > >Ok, a quick note of what was discussed earlier. > > > >We need two separate rotas, it's clear that just one person isn't > >working. We're going to split into the following. > > > > * On-call orga team member > > > > Needs to be on-site. Should only be off-site should situations > > arise. > > Phone number to be left with front desk and with teviot staff > > Escalations go via this person to other members of the orga team > > as appropriate. They need contact details for all other > > Should check teviot at close time and ensure that everything is > > tidied up and all people are out of the building > > > > * Front desk receiption > > > > Issue food tokens > > Hand out delegate badges > > Check authenticity for people who aren't listed > > Point of contact for arriving attendees, can point people where > > they need to go > > Need to take things seriously - dealing with reasonalby large > > sums of money. Problems will arise if mistakes are made, eg: > > a full set of food tokens costs us > 100 GBP > > > >Daniel Baumann and Ralph Amissah have kindly offered to man the desk > >for some time. We need more trust worthy people who can handle this. > > Yup, agreed. > > My suggestion (just discussed with Kevin IRL): 7-hour sessions are > much too long - people will get bored, and won't want to miss an > entire night out (for example). If we drop it to 3- (or even 2-) hour > sessions then it means we need more people to cover, but nobody really > misses out.
I'm in agreement with this. Only trouble with the reduced hours is ensuring that things are working. People are going to be late/etc. 7 hour sessions are fine for the on-call orga member, but not for the front desk. I've updated the wiki accordingly. K _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
