No takers? We NEED help, please. All you have to do is be there and watch. You can bring spouse, friends, acquaintances... not even in the club. You don't have to commit to the whole day, whatever you can give is appreciated. I'll have good food from Anthony's (Italian stuff). DC On 9/26/2022 8:51 AM, Douglas Crawford wrote:
There is a mass of people coming both days from the Lakewood community, families that are off for a Orthodox Jewish holiday.
Its a Wednesday and Thursday. So this request is for people who have freedom on weekdays. 10am to 5pm. Probably heaviest visitor load after noon.
We are having an "open house" of sorts. We will not be giving tours, we will be letting people walk through the museum. In and out. One loop. They come in the door, turn right, go around the room and out again. No touching, nothing powered on. (we will have computers in the hallway that are there for kids, running simple games)
Our ideal staffing for this is a person in the four corners of museum to insure the safety of the exhibits. These are the watchers. At most you will point things out of interest and answer questions if you can.
We'll compromise on # of watchers if we get less help and work with as few as two.
Plus we have a door person and someone helping kids with the game computers in the hall.
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------------------------------------ (Our plan)
Date & Time Wed Oct 12 10am-5pm Thu Oct 13 10am-5pm
Eight step plan:
1. All artifacts inside the museum are planned to be kept off.
2. Four Commodore computers will be in the hallway. They will have monitors and game controllers and one cartridge game installed. No game changing. I'll have an 8x10 instruction card for each game on display. I expect contention for the machines. We'll do the best we can. I'll try to leverage games that give a player 3-tries-and-you-are-out" so that no one is hogging the machines. Doug will work on getting the equipment ready and set up.
3. A person greets the people at the door to tell them a bit about the museum, then admit them and throttle the flow as required. Our fire code head-count limit is 25.
4. Watchers are stationed to safeguard the artifacts and be helpful.
5. Visitors walk around the museum to the right and around at their own pace unguided. They just follow one after the other. They look at stuff as they walk & talk and read as they pass by exhibits. They go around the circle and exit.
5a. If we run at full capacity, the door person will keep the next visitors clear of the door until a group exits, then admit the next one.
6. Creature comforts This is a long gig. We will use our stools and chairs at our stations. The guy at the Atari gets to sit at the office chair. Or stand when you want to. We will switch around duties and ideally have one spare staff so we can rotate people out. Otherwise, we'll just drop out and the rest have a little more to cover. I'll arrange food, some extra drinks. Ice, etc. Creature comforts. I think I'll generally be the GAME HOST guy, as I can probably afford to occasionally leave my post and deal to check on things.
7. Remove loose items to prevent children from grabbing them.
8. Coordinate with the model train guys (GSC) down the hall.
DETAILS, headcounts, etc.
This plan depends on recruiting on quite a few new helpers. No experience required for watchers. Bring a friend? We can tell them a line to say like "these are the 90's micro." "This one started the internet" * I will call for help on the message board. *
The ideal configuration is for 6 on floor floor and at least one alternate to fill in for relief for eating and resting. If I can get 14 people to help, we can have two crews. I'm probably dreaming, but it might be possible since 8 don't have to know much. If the headcount is sufficient, and no one but me has to do both days I'll probably be making a staffing chart that is a little different than the docent schedule. Put trash can in the hallway. We have an extra black one that we can use.
Ideal staffing: 1. 4 WATCHERS a. A person at each end of the Micros b. A person at each end of the Minis. 2. 1 DOOR PERSON 3. 1 GAME HOST 4. 1 SPARE that can rotate in when someone has to rotate out.
Manpower Fallback - if I can't get as many volunteers as I'd like, I'll consider cutting down to 2 watchers. One at each end one looking down the micros one looking down the Minis. Total of 10 staff, 5 people per day.
At the end of the first day we'll move the game computer tables into the museum and close up. At the end of the second day, I'll need some folks to stick around and help take stuff back to the warehouse.