DM Meeting @ 2008-01-17 18:15:00
DM Meeting Minutes: Thursday, 17 January 2008
6.15 pm, Rococo
1. Welcome and apologies
Present: James McLachlan, Helen Coe, Rachel Crofts, Robert Gardner, Mike Joy, George Marshall, Matt Pusey, Will Puszyk
Apologies: Pierre Schramm
2. Rotas
There are several free slots for DMs in Week 3.
3. EPOS system
The recent problems have been fixed, mainly thanks to Tim, with some help from Matt.
4. New laptops
The new laptops may be ready next week.
There have been offers for the old laptops from some of the Crew. James will mention this at the Exec meeting on Tuesday.
5. Sell-out
308 tickets were sold for the late showing of Atonement on Sunday.
The red chairs were used to avoid turning anyone away.
6. DM training
The qualified DMs will discuss trainees' progress every five shows of their training and at other times when necessary.
The discussions will include trainees' strengths and weaknesses, and feedback will be given to the trainees.
Trainee DMs will be invited to give feedback about how they are being trained and the training process in general. This can then be discussed by the qualified DMs.
There was approval of writing a high level identification of a Duty Manager's roles and responsibilities - independent of the minutiae of DM'ing shows (such as the cashing up process) - to use as a checklist for training and qualifications. Such a document could be posted on the website and would describe what trainees must be able to do in order to qualify. It would correlate with the DM training booklet, which would be modified to include check boxes.
The current booklet is too detailed for check boxes; more condensed points are required.
The check boxes could be used to indicate that: a duty has been shown to the trainee; the trainee has performed the duty with prompting; the trainee has performed the duty without prompting.
Mike will forward a draft of a roles and responsibilities document from c. 2003 to the DM listing.
The Front of House Committee can vote to propose a de-qualification to the Exec but there is no such policy concerning trainee DMs. There was a quorate vote for the motion:
"The Front of House Committee should be able to vote to propose revocation of a member's trainee DM status to the Exec."
The motion was approved unanimously.
James will enquire about the implementation of the relevant policy at the Exec meeting on Tuesday.
7. AOB
- DMs have made a couple of mistakes with the floats recently and are reminded to be thorough when cashing up.