Proposal Process

Currently: when we receive a new event proposal through the website, I paste the details into a new Loomio proposal.

Suggested amendment: instead of immediately creating a proposal as I do now, what if we change the process slightly so that the proposal doesn't get created until somebody has volunteered to be the liaison.

That way the liaison is responsible for opening, closing, and editing the proposal parameters, instead of me being the single point of contact for that stuff.

Cool?

a round of applause to richard! yes, i agree.

PS) should i liaison this 'proposal'?! ;)

mmmm I agree there needs to be a change to take the massive load off a single Mr Bartlett, but I think we'll need to figure out a way of making sure things don't slip through the cracks. Ideas?

I like the idea, why not give it a try and if there's something that slip through the cracks as Ben mention then we can find the solution.
Question: who will be responsible for adding the proposal ideas (I assume as discussions) from the website into here?
Idea: maybe we can rotate "focalicers" for the task every 2 weeks? so the load of work gets distributed.

I'm happy to keep pushing the proposals from the website to new Loomio discussions for now at least. The reason for the suggested change is not because I'm overworked, but because the process is not working as well as it could: Agreeing to an event before it has a liaison attached to it is kinda bogus.

And having my name attached to all the proposals is clunky too, e.g. Hannah S talked to Ian to modify his proposal but it had to go through me to actually make the changes.

what about putting the proposals from the web to here as: discussions waiting for a liaison, and when someone volunteers to do it, they can make the proposal and follow it up... ?

In theory I think this is a good idea. In practice, I'm concerned that sometimes no one will volunteer to be the liaison, and no one will get back to the person proposing the event and it will be a bad experience for them. Do we have faith that the admin team will organically take on liaising smoothly? On the other hand, if there's no liaison then there should be no event anyhow...

That was exactly my suggestion Nati...

sorry Rich I got lost in space... so yes I like your idea! :)