Dinner Lessons Learned for the Future
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[edit] Entertainment
- Very happy with the band. Excellent choice.
- Would have like to have had them play when more people were still around. Possibly move them earlier or put them on (fully) before dinner
[edit] Speakers
- Exceeded time limits (in some cases greatly)
- Need to be strict about time constraints
- In the future, 5 min absolute max if we are trying for a cafe-style
- Need to approach them earlier (one of the very first tasks)
- Share organic gift baskets were great.
[edit] Food
- Excellent. Working with the chefs was very helpful!
- Pickup too longer than anticipated but was successful
[edit] Registration/Entry
- Entry was too slow! No need for people with tickets to wait in line.
- If people have a ticket, they do not need to be checked off the list
- Maybe have a permanent greeter
- Alphabetize the list to make it quicker
- On-line registration added complications. In the future have only in-person sales or on-line. The email reservations were a hassel and also complicated by the auto-reply (once sold out) not working.
- Cut off on-line the day before the event. Advertise that this will be the case.
[edit] Pre-dinner
- Info-fair was successful
- CE was poorly represented! We had planned on having the Planning Projects posters there with people from CE to represent them. In the future this should be a major focus! Get those who see that we can put on a good event, and hear talks about climate, to get involved.
- We should have had a conference-registration table setup!
- Time constraints for all of CE were major prior to the event (a chronic CE problem). This should be dealt with to allow for more CE participation in the dinner.
- Make the music a bit more prevalent or have the band on.
- Farmers didn't come. This is likely due to a lack of prior notice. Since we were worried about budget, it would be best in the future to let them know at least a week prior so they can plan to attend.
- Caitlin's farmer map was very good. Nice touch.
[edit] Logistics
- Microphone from the Church had no volume control. Use the band PA next time
- We overlooked who would handle the tea, not a major issue as it was handled well, but would be nice if we had a point person on this beforehand.
- Very handy to have a bike with panniers for errands during the day (in addition to the truck for larger stuff)
- Donations box!
[edit] Post-dinner
- Plan for a lot of Compost!
- 2 vehicles would have been nice (or a bigger truck)
[edit] Volunteers
- Give them some sort of tag so that organizers can identify them if we need a hand
- 20 volunteers + 7 organizers + 4 chefs was an absolute minimum. Any extras would have been useful for non-kitchen work
- Kudos to the dishwashers!
[edit] Promotions
- CBC thing worked well. Do that more in-advance in the future.
- Cross-promote with the conference.
