Sweat Equity ideas thread • April/May: completing projects by this time, Stage House likely to be open • Pathway lighting, adding fencing: solar ideal, protect plants • Solar lighting in luxe tents (have panels and lights, need to be installed) • Trash sorting system/building: ◦ Next to Central Camper Kitchen: is exposed and in the middle of something ◦ Could use a fenced-off storage area for coolers, water containers, sorted recyclables holding zone (behind kitchen) • Floating dock (@cool-pizza-44770 and Chuck discussed this?) ◦ Ramp and railing installation • Maybe fix weather station? What’s next? • Will circle back at end of Jan to see if other possible projects open up or change priority • Send SoEl New Years/Save the Date newsletter and include list of possible project and tell people to reply to email if any of those projects sound like fun to do

Something Else 2022 kickoff meeting will be at Carberry Manor the second week of April. In-person attendance highly encouraged! 🌔 Moonday April 11, 7-10p 🦷 Toothday April 12, 7-10p 💒 Weddingsday April 13, 7-10p ⚡ Thorsday April 14, 7-10p 🍳 Fryday April 15, 7-10p 🍨 Sundae April 17 7-10p We can talk about other options if none of these work for folks, but let’s try these first

<!channel> we don’t seem to have good agreement on a day for a meeting next week 😞. Can folks rejigger things to make more people be able to make Tuesday or Friday work?

<!channel> 🍨 Sundae April 17 has been added as a meeting option. Please react to the original post if this date works for you—it is the only option that works for budget dinos Renee/Chuk/Gene, so we are hoping it can work for you too!

<!channel> Kickoff Meeting tonight at 5662 Carberry, 7-10p (we’ll try for 7-9, but let’s be real). Meeting link to be provided for remote attendees, pizza will be provided for in-person ones! Agenda &amp; meeting notes doc. Please add topics!

Action Items from the kickoff meeting! Broken down per person! @square-country-13088 @clean-army-21719 @dry-vase-19852 @bumpy-accountant-88248 @billions-businessperson-97666

do we have a list of action items for the sound/stage person? Joey is interested and is potentially free for that weekend

I created #foodie-dinos for coordinating all the things food

Any ideas on how to get Teams to estimate how many volunteers they'll want this year? Hit up each lead with "here's what your team had last year, we expect to be 40% bigger so how about 40% more volunteers"? Seems like this happens when VolCoordinators start trying to match "interested people" to real shifts

Gate hours

sellin’ tickets makin’ moneys lalalala-la-la-la 😄

Idea: repeating the mini-renfair from last year on Sunday evening

Shade for community areas? $450 for 12x20 or $750 for 24x20 https://formandreform.com/blackrock-hardware/?fbclid=IwAR1UT03Md5Ze5UQDTuVnUU_yEQLe9bvHm99oS7QhVRkPagWhGY_2qYf5TYc

raise your hand if you still want to do this work weekend!

<!channel> We should have another short meeting to keep our momentum up and discuss what we need to do over the next few months. Your Dear Leaders are available on Friday evening. (I know less consensus scheduling this time, but we’re all busyyyy.) Let’s do a thing!

<!channel> meeting now - https://meet.google.com/oqy-uxvi-fnk

Looks like we perhaps missed this?

This may sound like a dumb question - How can I invite humans to Something Else? Where can I input their email or send them a link to buy a ticket? Got some leads this weekend and want to follow-up

Hi hi! So I was up at Mendo Magic this past weekend - and I have a few updates for those of us who may not have been up there this year yet: • Behind the Central Camp Kitchen (Lanai) they poured concrete and have a prefab building. The plan for this building is to be a bar that can be operated by them or by an event. Chuck Gruber says it may not be completely ready for Something Else but they are going to continue working on it. Can definitely be an activated space • There is now a rope swing at the lake - between the new dock they built last year and Mud Beach. This was put up by Strawberry Moon folk and potentially will be left up for the summer. Seems safe enough. • Mud Beach is currently under water but should be good for Something Else - also the log has been moved back a little • There were no bees at the Central Camp Kitchen - at least none that I saw. Maybe a fluke? • It seems Mendocino Magic is more interested in events than camping, at least for this year. They have 4 full time humans (Mackenzie, Chuck Gruber, Jay, Andrew) working up there now and on most events. Almost every weekend the entire summer is booked for events. • Mendo Magic friends/family were there (Dan, Rex, Matt, Savage) and everyone seemed pretty damn excited about Something Else. We are one of their favorite events of the year! • A party the previous weekend got five (5!) noise complaints from neighbors including a threat to call police. The sound was in the same position as ours at Loggers, but had a significantly larger subwoofer setup. This was after midnight on one of the evenings. • Bears - One was spotted Friday morning in the parking lot, and 2 weeks ago one broke into the Hill House on the back 300 acres.

Setup needs thread

<!channel> We need to have an all hands meeting in about a week to start planning things in earnest. Here’s the agenda doc – please add things! Please vote for which day you could attend. We’d really like all the team leads to make it…and folks interested in helping out in any capacity should attend too! Meeting will be outside 🦠 in N Oakland either at Cloud Castle or Carberry Springs TBD ⚡️ Thur 7/14 7:30p – 9:30p 🍳 Fri 7/15 7:30p – 9:30p 🌞 Sun 7/17 3:30p – 5:30p <- 🕞 🌇 Sun 7/17 7:30p – 9:30p <- 🕢 💰 Mon 7/18 7:30p – 9:30p 🦷 Tue 7/19 7:30p – 9:30p 🤵 Wed 7/20 7:30p – 9:30p

Is @adamant-kangaroo-75364 our volunteer coordinator? Orrrr who can I talk to about my volunteer requests and gate volunteer schedule?

📣 <!channel> 📣 HEAR YE HEAR YE – the next Something Else meeting will be Wednesday 7/20 at 7:30pm at Carberry Springs. Please attend in person if you are at all able – we’ll have a remote option, but hybrid meetings just don’t work as well for the remote folks.

Elena and I are stuck in traffic in SF trying to get to the bridge. Didn't get in on Google meet, ping Elena when it starts please :)

Meeting died

Talked to Mack about gate concerns. They’re fine with our “page a gate person” radio system except for the hours of 10p-4a on Thur, Fri, Sat, and maybe Sun if we’re planning on partying Sun night. This is when loud music and lights might attract neighbors/townies/cops, and there should be someone at the gate to keep them from coming in. Offer of $20/hr MM employee staffing gate during those hours still stands, so we just need to figure out when our regular gate staff will wrap things up and the MM staffer takes over. We should let them know this ahead of time, not wait til event, to make sure they have staff on hand for this.