[sudo-discuss] Call for volunteers to help man Omni's front desk!

Hi friends! As part of the Welcoming Committee, we're looking for folks to help man the front desk of the Omni. Day shifts (10-2, 2-6pm) will be done in tandem with La Commune. Our priority right now is filling evening shifts, 6-10pm, as these are the busiest times for the Omni and most in need of guides to point people where they need to go. It's a great way to simultaneously meet new people and have a sweet spot to work on things that are interruptible. You can sign yourself up for shifts here: https://ethercalc.com/omni-front-desk What are the responsibilities of the front desk? * Simply a face to say hello when people walk in! * Check omnicommons.org/calendar and know what's going on and where things are. * For evening shifts, checking that folks are coming for specific purposes and turning people away if necessary. * Giving tours, if possible, and answering questions about the space. * Security - to some extent, _unwelcoming_, in the rare case it's necessary, we need to have at least one person near the door and ideally two, so one person can detain while the other activates an 'all hands on deck' signal we'll be working out in the near future. For now, the best option for this is to walk to sudo/ccl and ask whoever's around to come out and help with a nonviolent walkout of the problematic individual. On that note, our bans list is here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Bans The Welcoming Committee is also creating documentation, handouts to give to people when they ask for information. We're collecting all the necessary info, mostly scraped from the wiki, to be eventually split into bits and graphically jazzed and printed by our artistically-inclined comrades, here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p6PFP4A1_7EypsyhqJ5qM4-HglKCgrk7h024fKJ… Got suggestions and ideas on how we can do this better? The Welcoming Committee meets every Thursday at 6pm in La Commune :) Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`)