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Re: A BricksWest Critique?
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lugnet.events.brickswest
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Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:26:10 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickswest, Todd Thuma writes:
<snip to save web trees>
> There are always people willing to sholder responsibility and step up. They
> need to be encouraged and led so that they finish the tasks they take on.
> Matthew did a great job but took to much on himself. There were plenty of
> people like Dan, Steve, Tim, and others that took charge of certain aspects of
> the event. I think Matthew could have delegated more and allowed himself more
> opportunity to enjoy the event himself. Honestly, I don't think Matthew got a
> chance to enjoy the very event he took so much responsibility in.
Yes, I agree 100%. It was mentioned elsewhere that there be actuall and
factual "employees" (read -> volunteers). It would be nice to have someboy
man the reg. table for 2 or so hours, then somebody take over and so on ans
so-on. It would be nice (and ideal) if the same person would not have to man
the table more than once a day. And yes, Matt should be able to give people
responsibilities. Please allow me to backtrack a tad. I thought more into
this over the last few hours and feel that if Matt wants to be the man in
charge again, then we should let him -- but yes, give him co-chairs (or
whatever you call them) and people like that that will keep that second eye
on things. This is a good thing to have. But however you work the BW staff,
if Matt wants to be up there ontop of the totem pole then I think we should
let him. But we are also yet to see what he will be able to take on, so this
may be a mute point on my part. But there is no reason Matt (or whoever runs
the show) should be so tied down during the event.
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> As for the risk, Matthew took on way too much to be sensible in this day and
> age. He left him self financially vulnerable at a time when he has a wife, an
> addorable little girl, and a newly born son to take care of. This level of risk
> is way beyond sensible, in my humble opinion, when their lives are factored >in.
> Kudos to his wife for enabling Matthew to accomplish what he accomplished.
Yes! His wife must be one of the most understang (and nice!) people out there ;)
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> I respectfully disagree with this position of Mark's. It is common that the
> head of an event becomes the assistant or the "past president" of the
> organization the next year. This is so that one person is never stuck with the
> job. I don't know Matthew's feelings on this, but he hardly got to do or
> participate in anything. I felt bad that he was stuck at the registration table
> all day. This should have been delegated to others so that he could do his
> "presidential" duties. Making a different person the leader would not be a
> hassle for anyone other than the next appointed leader. In fact I submit to you
> for the BricksWest thing to keep going and be successful it would be best if
> one person is not solely in charge every year but that responsibility is moved
> around. As for a committee doing it I think, despite what others assert,
> committees can get stuff done. They do in the business world everyday. Don't
> use your city council as basis for committees not getting work done. Committees
> are typically not working on their re-election hours after being elected.
Somewhat agree - see comments above ;) But is this an effort from you to be
the head person this year? If so lets put this on the table (but like Matt
said privately).
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> That's fine if more than 2 members of the club show up. What I heard from most
> people in the tent last year is that they felt stuck there. If you were
> bringing your own models and had no security or means of keeping people off of
> them, would you want to leave hours and hundreds of dollars at the mercy of 5
> fingers? As it was Dan never left the tent. What did he get to participate in
> at BricksWest?
Understand 100% where you are coming from and agree. I think this would be a
great place for "official employees" (aka volunteers) to step up and be
official "MOC Watchers" lol, we could give them "LEGO SECURITY" shirts or
something, LOL. This way there is at least one person per area at all times,
and hopefully it would work the same as the reg. table people there would e
enough people that none would be used more than once per day. I have more
ideas on this we can get into later)
> Besides, if Legoland opens up a tent for the MOCs and train displays then we
> need to have that tent open during the hours the park is open. Put yourself in
> the shoes of the park manager for a second. An attraction is open the whole
> time the park is open, you don't open it for select periods.
Yes, and I do not really expcet them to do this - I was just throwing out an
idea. Could you imagine trying to get people out of the tent, lol - ya -
good luck!
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> What are you refering to here? The DVD was mentioned as an idea. It never
> materialized because of the following reasons: • way too many LEGO's ;-)
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> (I know this sounds or reads like I was on the defensive, but go back and read
> it with some humor in mind and that's how I meant it).
lol, no worries. I was under the impression that DVDs (or something) were
going to be made. I recall seeing talk about this, and a comment that it
would be discussed via email or something along those lines. This was backed
up (in my mind) by the fact I saw videotaping of prettymuch everything. Like
the one guy (sorry, I forgot his name) with that super-huge camera and
professional equipment that was running around. But seeing that you said it
was never actually more than an idea I ask that you allow me to retract my
prior statment about it. I am still dissapointed that it did not happen, but
at least now i know it was not going to happen in the first place.
Mark P.
http://www.landofbricks.com
> Todd
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| (...) I have been afraid of this last statement. I really do not think I am in a position geographically that would lead me to be able to lead this kind of an effort. I live in Georgia and the event is going to happen somewhere on the west coast. (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| (...) There are always people willing to sholder responsibility and step up. They need to be encouraged and led so that they finish the tasks they take on. Matthew did a great job but took to much on himself. There were plenty of people like Dan, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest)
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