[Cynnabar] Wrangling the Can of Worms

[Monique Rio]

I agree with this.

-Jadzia

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Dennis Higgins <mortisfan at comcast.net> wrote:
> Taking off the Seneschal hat…
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> OK, here is my personal opinion on the subject.
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> Generalist vs. Specialty events
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> Yes, have some. They’re both tasty.
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> Should we compensate certain people that come to Cynnabar events?
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> I think the only people that should always be offered compensation is
> Royalty. Any other offered compensation (full or partial) should be
> determined by the Autocrat and approved by the Barony during the event
> proposal process. This would give each event the flexibility needed to be
> successful. Trying to put any other policy in place, especially when trying
> to balance out help/volunteerism across multiple events (I helped at X event
> but get to play at Y event) gets unwieldy. If someone doesn’t agree with a
> compensation proposal, they can come to the business meetings and let their
> voice be heard, then the Barony can decide if they want to support the event
> proposal or not.
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> If some level of compensation is agreed on, should we make this a Cynnabar
> policy?
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> Something should be written down but should be flexible. The above “Royalty
> always offered compensation and others at the discretion of the Autocrat to
> be built into the event budget and agreed upon by the Barony as part the
> event proposal process” could cover all the bases and be simple enough to
> work for everyone.
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> Again, these are my personal opinions on how things could work. The Barony
> as a group will end up agreeing on the ultimate way we want to go.
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> I now return you to your regularly scheduled program…
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> -Finn
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> From: barony-bounces at cynnabar.org [mailto:barony-bounces at cynnabar.org] On
> Behalf Of Cynnabar Seneschal
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 9:31 AM
> To: 'Cynnabar'
> Subject: [Cynnabar] Wrangling the Can of Worms
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> These are all great discussions. It very nice when people with different
> opinions on how something should happen can express their viewpoints and
> have the other side listen and discuss back and forth.
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> I've know other groups that would have had this turn into a giant flame-war
> and we'd be standing among heaps of ashes by now. While this discussion has
> only been going on a few days (an eternity really in the on-line age), it's
> generated 50+ e-mails on it, it's good to see the level of civilly we still
> have.
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> Below are the topics I see being bantered about. Each dovetail into each
> other but really are their own standalone questions.
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> Generalist vs. Specialty events
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> It appears that in general, no one is arguing against having specialty
> events as long as the budget and group support is there.
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> Should we compensate certain people that come to Cynnabar events?
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> OK, Royalty seems to be a given. But other than that, should others be given
> free or reduced site fees? The discussion seems to range from yes for only
> specialist volunteers (all day musicians/teachers), to yes for anyone that
> puts in some help, to no, since we are volunteer organization and we help at
> one event while get to play at others. And there is a lot of gray area
> in-between where that “compensation scale” can slide from “no-one gets
> comped” to “donation only format”.
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> If some level of compensation is agreed on, should we make this a Cynnabar
> policy?
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> This is basically who should decide who gets compensated. Do we try write
> something down covering all bases to use as our guideline/policy for going
> forward in the future? Or do we leave it up to the Autocrat/event
> coordinator  to determine as part of their event proposal/budget?
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> I don’t think this discussion is over and I encourage it to continue
> (civilly of course J ). I will however, plan on setting aside some time at
> the end of the next Baronial business meeting (on the 26th) to continue this
> discussion in person as well. For in the end, it will be at the group
> meetings where we, as a Barony, will make the decision on what we want to
> do.
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> -Finn
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> Seneschal
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