<VV> Re: That CORSA display & "Corvair Basics"

[Bryan Blackwell]

Hi folks,

Yet another long CORSA post.  Delete now if you're not interested.

On Mar 1, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Robert Marlow, Vairtec Corp. wrote:

> We sought to obtain it subsequently for a mall show, but it was not 
> available to us.  I got the impression at that time that it wasn't 
> available to us mostly because no one wanted to be bothered with what 
> it would take to ship it to us.  A membership recruitment opportunity 
> lost.
>
I am also involved in my local Little League, WSLL (much of the reason 
why my Corvair involvement falls off the table from March to June).  
Although the organizations serve very different purposes, WSLL 
struggles with many of the same general issues in terms of how to get 
things done.  In the last couple years our President, Steve Gillingham, 
has taken as his major task a complete overhaul of our administrative 
structure.

You see, WSLL has the same problem as CORSA.  Everybody's there to play 
baseball with kids, just as CORSA members want to play with their cars 
and Corvair friends.  What happens is you get a volunteer with an idea 
to make the program better who runs with it.  So far, so good.  Then 
that person leaves and with them goes all the knowledge of how that 
particular sub-program worked.  Problem two is that new volunteers 
hesitate to take on a job because the scope is undefined, or worse, the 
job isn't even listed anywhere.  Too much work then falls on the folks 
who do get involved, burning them out.

One significant project we are in process of implementing is an 
operations guide with sections for *everything*.  The idea then being 
that a new volunteer has two things - one, a list of fairly well 
delineated jobs, and second, a good guide of how to accomplish a given 
task.  All this then goes on our website.  I know some of this already 
exists for the big CORSA functions, but I perhaps a lot of little ones 
like this aren't documented.

In terms of the CORSA display, reading all the posts I see just such a 
job description coming together, something like "CORSA display 
coordinator":

General responsibility is to set up a schedule of events for the CORSA 
display and coordinate the transportation, staffing, and materials 
needed for the display.

1 - Actively seek CORSA chapters who wish to use the display at a 
public event and are willing to receive, set up, man, break down, and 
ship out the CORSA display and related materials.

2 - Arrange transportation (via commercial shipper or CORSA member) to 
the chapter POC, and if possible have the display shipped directly from 
one event to the next.

3 - Set up a standard stock of items and a post-use form so chapters 
finished with the display can identify items used so those items can be 
sent to the next user to restock the display.

4 - Transmit either by mail or electronically a set of usage documents 
to the chapter POC prior to their event to include set up, tear down, 
storage, and ship by date.

That's one way of doing it.  If somebody wants to handle this, perhaps 
volunteering to do this (or some modified version) to the BOD would 
receive a positive answer.  I'll add that after the first year things 
would probably get pretty easy since a number of the events, and 
perhaps members moving the display, would be the same year to year.

--Bryan