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Food - Volunteers #14

Open samialabed opened 8 years ago

samialabed commented 8 years ago

You mentioned that volunteers grab food last. While this would be ok if your volunteers are being paid and what not, I don't think it is fair in student run hackathons that volunteers are neglected; either let volunteer grab their portions and save it somewhere before they serve others, or they eat first, or do 2/3 shift type of serving; a volunteering team eat while the other serve then swap.

nothing worse than volunteering at a hackathon and being hungry in it, in fact a hungry person who is running around and attendees facing is a recipe for negative experience for all parties involved.

kpchi commented 8 years ago

Yup, I'll need to edit that. Not sure how you did it at StudentHack but for HL we kept portions of food aside for the volunteers. Those who weren't busy grabbed food for themselves and others. Volunteers on the food team grabbed food once seconds were released.

Food team swopping around is a good alternative I might phrase in.

@roh7 Comments from DSSC? @JoshuaSimpson, @vickyd885 correct me if I'm wrong for HL

samialabed commented 8 years ago

SH some meals were following the shift patterns but not all of them; I don't think we did it very well in StudentHack, but we did it way better at GreatUniHack where we kept portions in the back room and we had shifts, worked very well and volunteers were generally happier than in SH

roh7 commented 8 years ago

For DSSC, volunteers just picked up food when there weren't many hackers queuing up, and between shifts in the food room. Seemed to work fairly well.

vickyd885 commented 8 years ago

HL - attendees got food first, we were more relaxed about volunteers taking food once the the majority of the attendees had taken it.

I don't think the volunteers had an issue with going last. There was also snacks available in the organisers room so volunteers could get something if they wanted a bite to keep them going.

I'm not saying you should starve your volunteers, but at HL, I think there was a general vibe to make the attendees happy as much as possible so volunteers were more than happy to go last.

Maybe at the other hackathons, you want to communicate with the volunteering team and ask if they are happy with the arrangement of going last.