16 Jan
2015
16 Jan
'15
1:54 p.m.
Anca,
Thanks for putting together that list. I agree it would be *wonderful if
the work of organizing / facilitating / administering events was shared
among several people rather than the responsibility of just one person.
Unfortunately, there are only a couple of people who are currently doing
this work for the multiple event requests that come in daily. So it's
actually about 4 or 5 people doing all of that work for literally dozens of
events weekly.
We could certainly use more help with this - whether it's taking on the
organizing work for an event or two to revising the process for how we
distribute this work / encourage people to participate in it.
<3
N
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Anca Mosoiu <anca(a)techliminal.com> wrote:
Is there a specific list of tasks/responsibilities
that the "bottom-liner"
has to do?
Matt's list of terms suggest a number of different, specific
responsibilities that a person with that title might have. Semantics are
important here.
Here's a (partial) list of many of the things that are done as part of an
event. I like to split them along content-oriented tasks, and
organizational tasks.
*Content Tasks:*
* Come up with an event name, descriptive text, pictures for putting on
the website and on social media
* Create workshop, or presentation, or performance for the event
* Facilitate / teach / perform at the event
*Organizational/Administrative/Marketing/Financial Tasks:*
* Make sure the event doesn't conflict with other events in the space at
that time
* Post the event on the website
* Create event registration webpage if needed
* Post the event on social media sites. Promote the event.
* Secure sponsorships for events
* Create flyers and collateral for promoting the event
* Keep a list of contact information for all people participating in the
event
* Keep people informed of ongoing changes or things they need to do to get
ready
* Confirm that the event is still happening X days before the event (so we
can clear out the calendar if not)
* Buy / provide food and drink for event
* Make sure the space is ready at the right time, including unlocking
doors if needed
* Make sure all needed equipment is available and in working order
* Direct people to the event in the space
* Help set up for the event
* Clean up after the event. Lock up the space if necessary.
* Collect payment or donations for use of the space
* Send payments to performers or event partners
What are some of the other things?
If people don't feel comfortable with the explicit or implicit list of
responsibilities associated with being a bottom-liner, we can re-define
them. As well as the term.
Cheers,
Anca.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
some more hopefully-less-hierarchical-terms:
* responsibili-buddy
* point-of-contact
* liaison
* ambassador
* confidant
* advocate
* messenger
* intermediary
* connection
* fixer
* agent
* emissary
* promoter
* producer
Perhaps "producer" is subtly honest, "responsibili-buddy" is most fun
to
pronounce, and "coordinator" is the closest practical analog to the current
"bottom-liner"?
// Matt
p.s. "Advocate" goes in a totally different direction, maybe worth some
consideration...
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:06 AM, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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I don't know who you are, Ed Rippy, but I
can't wait to meet you IRL!
Love these thoughts and hope we can expand on them / work to develop
actionable solutions / experiments.
<3
Niki
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Ed Rippy <ed.rippy(a)mindspring.com>
wrote:
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On 01/11/2015 10:17 PM, Michael Nicoloff wrote:
> I know on the BAPS side of things there's been on-and-off problems
> with finding enough people to bottom-line classes, and that often the
> duties of bottom-lining have unevenly fallen on a few key people, so that
> even if the name bottom-liner hasn't struck me as a problem, the organizing
> practice has at times felt built on shaky ground. What in theory is a
> non-coercive, equal, from-each-to-each kind of horizontalism becomes not so
> much that in practice, with responsibility (and power)
> concentrating/burdening a small number of folks.
>
-- This always happens. Democracy is a great ideal, & it wd be even
greater if our fundamental equality as human beans translated into equality
of work output. It doesn't for a lot of reasons. This is the toughest part
of the whole process.
The only way to reduce this problem is for more people to step up.
This is very tough, because pretty much all of us are overextended anyway,
but it's still crucial. We all grow up in a society where just about
everything happens because someone gets paid to bottomline it. If we want
to create an alternative we need to deprogram ourselves & realize that
there ain't no-one else to do it. Many of us are also programmed to feel
that we aren't good enough and can't be 'leaders.' This is what we have
to
transform if sudo room or omni is gonna survive. Unfortunately I can't
offer a whole lot myself, but I'll think of something. One thing I've
learned is that little things add up.
We need to know ea. other & trust ea. other if we're really going to
work together. And we need to believe that our efforts will actually pay
off -- that they'll be well received & help create some great experience.
> So I feel like lurking under concerns about the name are questions of
> organization, of how to ensure a horizontalism not just in name but also in
> reality, and so it seems like any discussion of renaming the bottom-liner
> task is also going to have to take a real look at our practices as
> collectives. Maybe I'm getting a little far afield here, but it seems like
> pulling on the thread of what to call what we're calling a bottom-liner
> pulls a lot of other issues with it.
>
-- Me 2. The term "bottom-liner" has gotten pretty traditional, & I
can't think of any great alternatives. "Project Manager?" Gack. We can
change the name if we like, but IMO it's more important to talk about what
the bottlenecks are & how we can be creative working together so more
people feel like getting involved. I'm a newb here so I don't know the
issues/specifics, but I've been an activist long enough to know the
pattern. We need to hack our mindsets so that we all see a little bit of
organizing/bottomlining here & there as part of a fun life.
Cheers,
Ed Rippy
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