Urban Unrest

25 August 2006 | Community | Ernesto Aguilar

Eric and I are tweaking the production room situation in the coming weeks, and want your ideas.We’ve had two consistent problems for some time:
> People signing up for space, then getting moved by someone who moves the first person and doesn’t communicate such;
> The number of shows who need standing space and ‘lose’ time to others;

I recognize the current system (and even the one in development) is not as good as it could be. I’ve talked to a few people about how to more effectively manage scheduling, but wanted to solicit ideas too. The current idea is to do away with the current day-timer style sheet to write on and instead post a schedule of room bookings for each day, then encouraging people to get in touch about reserving space or signing up online (via Convio or Google Calendar, if our calendaring tool doesn’t meet our needs). Having an online calendar has the advantage of setting recurring events (weekly, biweekly, monthly bookings) and allowing anyone in need of space to check anywhere they are (work, school, etc.) for a space without calling, waiting on hold for the clipboard to be checked, etc.

While on the topic of the production room, there’s been a proposal to upgrade the slooooooow hall machine with a Macintosh G5 that we have. Mac is a bit of an adjustment, but it’s less prone to viruses, spyware and other problems that have plagued that computer, and would be a big speed boost. Comments, concerns, endorsements/criticisms of this idea would be appreciated.

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