A few thoughts about WildFire for October 2008, which I’m not noting as criticism of WildFire June ’08, so much as materials for improvement.

Clean-up:
1. The last day (Monday) needs dedicated crews for Lunch, Breakfast, and kitchen clean-up, each as its own separate thing, in order to improve people’s exit strategies.
2. The kitchen and dining hall need to be cleared of people and locked after clean-up, to prevent re-messing.
3. The last-day co-ordinator needs four clean-up teams, minimum, and effective team leaders: fire pits, field, kitchen and dining hall, and camp sites.
4. The camp sites team leader needs a team for the Site 5 shower house and handicapped bathrooms, to clean and mop them thoroughly.

Site management:
1. Rocks on-site are not positioned to keep you from getting to primo campsites. They are there to keep your (or anyone else’s) SUV’s weight from breaking a water line to a shower house.
2. Site 6 needs to be more clearly closed to vehicular traffic.
3. Fire spinning, fire eating and fire breathing belong on the field; pyrotechnics (including cauldrons) belong on the dirt of the theater; there needs to be a sheltered place for fire eating.
4. Lighting crews need to light the latrines (site 5, 7 and 6), and the shower houses (7 and 6), as well as paths.
5. Light paths more effectively.
6. Light the shower house at site 5 more effectively: lanterns in the two bathrooms, or solar-powered ground lamps.

Stylistic concerns:
1. Drum-n-dance style belly dance around a fire with drummers belongs at a separate location, and perhaps a separate event/venue.
2. Having 2 part-timer scout reps may smoothenify the relationship between WF and JNW, but increases certain kinds of risks.
3. Finding a balance between supporting WF and representing JNW can be tough. I think I did ok, but I can see how unbalancing in one direction or the other is easy to do.

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