Re: [activities] Re: [CTTE] Volunteer to organize social meets for SLUG?

elliott-brennan wrote:
> Here's a version to consider:
> 

Good start, I have taken the liberty of creating a social 
meets page on the wiki - where the rules can be fine tuned.

<http://wiki.slug.org.au/social_meets>

Marghanita

> 
> ***********************************************************
> SHOTGUN RULES FOR BAD MEETINGS
> 
> RULE 1: Each month, the BAD meeting will be on the TO BE DETERMINED BY SLUG of
>      the month
> 
> RULE 2: Determination for the location for the BAD meeting
>      is like calling shotgun for the front passenger seat of a
>      car. Whoever calls the location first, wins, and that's where BAD is
>      going to be, period. In case of close calls, "first" is determined by
>      date received by the list server machine, and ties go to the I
> HAVE NO IDEA - SLUG DECISION.
> 
> RULE 3: A meeting announcement must be posted by email to the
> activities list with
>      BAD ANNOUNCEMENT in the Subject header. It must define a time, a location
> (with address and/or directions
>      by car and public transportation), and use the declarative voice
>      ("We are going to..." not "Would you guys like to go to...?"). It
>      should not be sent before the previous month's meeting has happened
>      (or should have happened).
> 
> RULE 4: If you make the announcement, you have to go, you have to be
>      on time and preferably early, and you have to make a little sign
>      that says "BAD" so people know where they're supposed to sit.
> 
> RULE 5: If no one makes an announcement, the meeting will not
>      happen. If nobody cares enough to take responsibility and make an
>      announcement, and everyone minces around with do-you-think's and
>      what-about-this's, we are weak and cowardly and do not deserve a
>      lovely meeting together.
> 
> RULE 6: Nobody is making you go to BAD meetings. Your
>      dialysis machine is not at the BAD meeting. You are not a robot of
>      the future who will be stuck in our dimension forever if you don't
>      attend the BAD meeting.
> 
>      If, for some reason, you cannot make it to the BAD meeting, or you
>      don't like where it's being held, or Chinese food gives you an upset
>      tummy, then Don't Go, and make a note in your calendar to yourself
>      to take some initiative and make the next month's announcement.
> 
> RULE 7: In case of SEVERE HAZARD -- for example, the originally chosen
>      venue has burnt to the ground or is on fire at the scheduled time
>      for the meeting, etc. -- the original organiser should post a new
>      announcement according to rule 3, mentioning prominently that it
>      is a change.
> 
>      The organiser MUST put a sign and/or a human runner at the original
>      venue to send people who missed the revised announcement to the
>      new location.
> 
> That's it. 7 simple rules. The Date Rule, the Shotgun Rule, the Email
> Rule, the Organiser Rule, the Have a Spine Rule, the Too Bad For
> YouRule, and the System Crash Rule.
> 
> Now, as another reminder, here's the non-binding part.
> 
> * Good locations for a BAD meeting will have:
> 
>      * Food
>      * Cheap food
>      * Good food
>      * Alcoholic beverages
>      * Non-alcoholic beverages
>      * Access for minors
>      * Separate bills
>      * Seats for 10-30 people
>      * Room to push tables together, or pull them apart
>      * Forgiveness for people coming and leaving at will
>      * Something for vegetarians to eat
>      * Something for carnivores to eat
>      * Enough quiet that we can talk
>      * Enough loudness that we're not a big distraction
>      * Enough light that we can see the network diagrams we're drawing
>        on the backs of napkins
>      * Access by public transportation
>      * Access by car
>      * Nearby parking
>      * Easy directions
> 
>   Obviously, there's no requirement that every location have all these
>   things, and most locations won't. And you are the sole determiner of
>   where everyone goes: you can call the meeting for a XXX movie
>   theater or your own home or a cardboard box under the freeway. But
>   it'd be nice to meet these goals.
> 
> * Restaurants and cafes that have been historically supportive of our
>   cause deserve our business and dollars.
> 
> * A good time for meeting is A) late enough that people can get off
>   work and drive or ride from their location to the location of the
> meeting, and B) not so late that the place is going to close, or
>   people have to go home for sleep. Think 7-8PM.
> 
> * If you think you know a good place to go, announce it. If you don't,
>   shut up. When people post do-you-think's and what-about-this's, it
>   clouds the waters and everyone gets confused. So don't do that.
> 
> * If for some reason you are far outside the preferred region of the
>   meeting, you should think about starting an offshoot group and
>   having separate meetings.
> 
> * A good meeting attendee will bring money for their share of food and
>   drink if they can. If they can't, they will keep their grubby mitts
>   off the food and drink. If they share from common food or drink
>   (such as pizzas or chips or jug of beer), they will get up, organise
> and pay for their round whatever when the current one runs out.  They
> will chip in for what they ate, and pay for what they ordered.
> 
> * A sample announcement email would look like this:
> 
>   ---8<---
>   From: Evan Prodromou <[email protected]>
>   To: [email protected]
>   Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: B.A.D. Meeting For April 2002
>   Date: 24 Mar 2002 08:31:11 -0800
> 
>   The B.A.D. meeting for this month will be held at Bar Italia on 10
> April  2010 at 2006 Norton Street in Leichhardt Berkeley at
>   7:30PM.
> 
>   Bar Italia at the corner of Norton and Caeser on the
>   Number 17 bus route. It is a 2 block walk from the Inner West Ghost
> Tram line station.
> 
>   I will be organizing a PGP key-signing. If you want to participate,
>   please send me your OpenPGP public key by noon on April 10th.
> 
>   See you there,
> 
>   ~ESP
>   ---8<---
> 
>   Note that this message projects authority, it has all important
>   information, and it does not use a question mark anywhere in the
>   message or subject line.
> 
> * There is no shame in announcing the meeting for someplace that
>   BAD has already been before. Heck: if it was good enough
>   before, it's probably good enough now.
> 
> * If you make an announcement, it's entirely possible that NO ONE will
>   come. This is the risk you run. You have put yourself on the line,
>   and it's within the realm of likelihood that you will spend the
>   night lonely and afraid, standing naked in the rain while mutant,
> zombie Koalas eat your brains and all of the people you
>   have ever had told you had a crushe on point at you and laugh and laugh.
> 
>   In short, it will be the worst night of your entire life, bar
>   none. If you are prepared for this, any other outcome will be icing
>   on the cake.
> 
>   If you are not prepared for this, and you send a vituperative and
>   bitter email to the BAD list on the Day After, you will look like a
> dick, and you will have capped your disastrous event with a bitter and
> ugly conclusion. This is not smart, so don't do
>   that.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Original by Evan Prodromou 2002
> Copyright (c)  2002  Evan Prodromou.
> 
> Variation by Patrick Elliott-Brennan 2010.
> 
> Distributed under same licence.
> 
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> 
> 
> **************************************************************
> 
>> On 26 August 2010 08:55, Melissa Draper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 21:32 +1000, James Polley wrote:
>>> Might I suggest that interested parties take a gander at
>>> http://bad.debian.net/shotgun_rules.txt which I came across recently. It
>>> may useful for things lik e'criteria' and 'but I don't want to do it
>>> every month!'
>>>
>>> --
>>> Melissa Draper
> 


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