Barn Raising
My amazing wife Caution has put together a group for Barn Raising.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising
The way this works is that households band together to work on projects
at each other's homes.
The way we're structured is that teams of 5 or 6 households organize one
saturday per year at each household. This works out to about one build
every other month.
At the build, the host is responsible for providing the project list,
organizing tools, getting subject matter experts and purchasing or
acquiring necessary supplies. Tools, materials, skills and suchlike are
usually available within the team or can usually be found on other teams
and if necessary hired or rented as needed.
Individuals commit to the dates on the calendar when the group forms.
The first rule of barn raising is Barn Raising Comes First even if
something cooler comes up in the mean time.
The second rule of barn raising is barn raisers show up on time, work
while they're there and don't leave early.
The third rule of barn raising is that everyone gets the full attention
and effort of everyone else.
It's a cool thing the amount of awesomeness a team can accomplish in a
single day.
One custom that has developed is that the host buys breakfast and lunch
but that's up to a team to figure out.
We had an organizing meeting for this year already. Caution and I were
too busy to actually talk about this much. We've got 4 or 5 teams, a
little space on existing teams and, well, can form as many teams as
there's interest to form. We host all this discussion on a private
yahoogroup forum. This discussion list is limited to team members and
is not a general discussion forum but actually a logistics and
organization list. If you want to chat about this topic that is not the
forum for it. If you want to join a team that's the forum.
If this is interesting to you please feel free to email me or Caution
directly.
-Sodium
sodium@captainsodium.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising
The way this works is that households band together to work on projects
at each other's homes.
The way we're structured is that teams of 5 or 6 households organize one
saturday per year at each household. This works out to about one build
every other month.
At the build, the host is responsible for providing the project list,
organizing tools, getting subject matter experts and purchasing or
acquiring necessary supplies. Tools, materials, skills and suchlike are
usually available within the team or can usually be found on other teams
and if necessary hired or rented as needed.
Individuals commit to the dates on the calendar when the group forms.
The first rule of barn raising is Barn Raising Comes First even if
something cooler comes up in the mean time.
The second rule of barn raising is barn raisers show up on time, work
while they're there and don't leave early.
The third rule of barn raising is that everyone gets the full attention
and effort of everyone else.
It's a cool thing the amount of awesomeness a team can accomplish in a
single day.
One custom that has developed is that the host buys breakfast and lunch
but that's up to a team to figure out.
We had an organizing meeting for this year already. Caution and I were
too busy to actually talk about this much. We've got 4 or 5 teams, a
little space on existing teams and, well, can form as many teams as
there's interest to form. We host all this discussion on a private
yahoogroup forum. This discussion list is limited to team members and
is not a general discussion forum but actually a logistics and
organization list. If you want to chat about this topic that is not the
forum for it. If you want to join a team that's the forum.
If this is interesting to you please feel free to email me or Caution
directly.
-Sodium
sodium@captainsodium.com