On 2013-07-08 21:20, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
IMO the way to go is that before tomorrows meeting we need to findenough persons willing to organize the dishwashing by volunteers and whoare commited enough that in case of failure they are ready to do the unstaffed shifts themselves.
I'd emphasise that a bit more: those advocating the volunteer route should genuinely accept that if there are not sufficient other volunteers, they may need to do many long dishwashing shifts themselves. Including when they get people to sign up for a slot but those people fail to actually turn up for it, or when those people wander off before the job is done.
I don't think it's reasonable for us to unduly hassle attendees towards helping on this, or to try to make it a condition of attending or of sponsorship, especially at this late stage. Some advertising of the possibility of helping would of course be fine, like for the video team or for front desk. But people who are signing themselves up to the "use volunteers" side need to be ready to check each shift that there really are sufficient people working throughout the shift, and to do it themselves if there aren't, without getting upset if they end up needing to do it themselves for many shifts.
-- Moray