DM Meeting @ 2008-01-31 18:15:00
DM Meeting Minutes: Thursday, 31 January 2008
6.15 pm, Rococo
1. Welcome and apologies
Present: James McLachlan, Seb Averill, Rachel Crofts, Robert Gardner, Stephen Harris, Mike Joy, George Marshall, Matt Pusey, Natalie Tyldesley
Apologies: Jeffrey Choi, Helen Coe, Pierre Schramm
2. Rotas
Front of House is experiencing a perfect week: eight different qualified DMs for eight shows.
3. New laptops
No progress has been made in the past week.
4. DM training
James encouraged the qualified DMs to continue commenting on the DM Competencies document.
Rachel requested that the conditions for announcing an additional show in the event of a sell-out be clarified to include recruitment of staff for the additional show.
James relayed feedback from trainee DMs about how they were being trained. It was mentioned that the qualified DMs have different styles but that there was nothing contradictory about their training.
5. AOB
(i) George presented a model of the new 'T' - after one or two months' work. Rachel applauded.
(ii) Robert announced that Week 4 was a rainbow week.
Thirty things to do in High Wycombe before you're dead #29: Kill yourself.
Random others:
Set fire to the station;
Build a chair arch;
Set fire to the chair arch.
(iii) There was a toast to the Chief DM. James thanked all of Front of House for making the last two years such a pleasure.