[ST] The Debrief

[Walter Kahn]

hi all,
Sorry for the duplicate posts if some of you are on both the Staff  
and Corporate Lists. I feel that this is important discussion for  
everyone.

I've been busy and now it's slowed down enough for me to comment on  
this. I'm not sure if I'm going to go to the Debrief now that's it  
seems to have been turned into a gripe/suggestion session for Staff.  
I'm not sure it's worth spending a good part of my afternoon  
listening to people gripe without being able to have a constructive  
discussion on how to make it better. For as long as I've been part of  
Arisia, the Debrief as been used as a forum to talk about and hash  
out what went wrong and what went right and to start the discussion  
on how to to fix what went wrong.

I also agree, if the sole purpose of this meeting is to identify what  
went right and wrong then email will be sufficient and I will not  
have wasted an afternoon that I won't able get back.

Also I would like to know how any Convention Chair can just  
arbitrarily change the format of a long standing process?

I'd like to also add this discussion to the Agenda of the next  
Corporate Meeting.

Walter

On Jan 30, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Tem wrote:

Good morning,

There have been some concerns raised over the exact nature and purpose
of the debrief. The purpose of the debrief is to gather as much
factual information as possible before proceeding with the planning
for the year to come.  We are currently working on arranging the first
concom meeting for February.  This first concom will be primarily
brainstorming with some announcements as to the placement of staff and
structure.

To address the concerns about there not being a place or time to voice
concerns about staff, the way things have been addressed or not
addressed, or a general complaint I offer this:  These types of
matters are difficult to address in a large forum and tend to lead
towards a very non-productive type of stress.  I am available to any
staff member or convention attendee who would like to discuss any part
of this convention.  I can be reached by email, my phone number is
781-608-1211 (no calls after 10pm please without prior arrangement)
and I would love to sit down with any of you over coffee and discuss
Arisia.
If there are enough of the Concom who would like to participate, I
would love to schedule some informal brainstorming sessions.

I would like to once again thank everyone for all of their hard work
in the past year.

Thank you,
September L. Isdell
Arisia 2008 Convention Chair
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