[ST] [CP] The Debrief

[Cris Shuldiner]

The sole perquisite granted by the corporation that over the years has
pretty much remained inviolable is the ability to pick GOHs.  People have
bitched and moaned, and even once threatened to impose rules, but that has
all amounted to nothing.

Things like corporate oversight of Staff structure has fluctuated up and
down over the years.  Some years it has been seen as the sole purview of
the chair and some years it has fallen under LRP to try to stabilize the
convention from year to year.

The corporation has an interest in stepping in where the long term needs
of the corporation and/or convention are not being met or where something
actively harmful is being done to either.

Whether the handling of the debrief rises to that level is open for people
to debate.  For example, one might argue that staff dissatisfaction with
the way the debrief is handled might be call for corporate oversight.

My argument as to why the corporation has an interest in the debrief is a
bit different.  The debrief has both a short term and a long term goal. 
It is important for the next chair of the convention to hear as broadly as
possible as to what things worked and what things did not so that they can
tweak those things that can be tweaked.

However, things come out at the debrief that are not necessarily fixable
over the course of a year or that a chairman might not view as being
important in the context of their convention.  The corporation might have
a different view on these things.  As its view is over the long haul and
not just a single convention, the members of the corporation might place a
different emphasis on various things than a chair might.

Thus it is important that the corporation be satisfied that the debrief
produces the right information for its own purposes.  Since it would
likely be madness to attempt to hold two entire debrief processes, we must
take care to ensure that the debrief satisfies both interested parties.

That is my opinion, take it or leave it as you see fit.

Cris


> Having been there...
> It's the convention chairman's process, to be handled at the chairman's
> discretion. There is no format, just as there is no real format to the
> staff structure, what events/programs are presented, or what guests of
> honour are chosen.
> That's the intoxicating elixir that is the sole possession of the
> chairman. It's also the sole compensation.
> Your Evil Overlord,
> -=>Carsten:-)
>
>> Also I would like to know how any Convention Chair can just
>> arbitrarily change the format of a long standing process?
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