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Munich Friday/ Saturday Beer Gardeners (& indoors in cold, wet, & winter etc) Organisers

http://www.berklix.org/bg/org/

Organisers

Venue Suggestions

If you've got venue suggestions, welcome. Mail the organisers on bg-org@, or even better suggest it to us in the beer garden/ Gaststaette, when we're deciding where to go next week.

Venue Selection Criteria:

Beer Gardens

• We prefer Beer Gardens that allow self service & bring your own food etc.
• We avoid beer gardens with no easy public transport (some beer gardeners & organisers go by bike, some by public transport).
• We prefer beer gardens with a good fallback venue if it rains. So if you nominate a beer garden, please also tell us a decent fallback rain venue.
• We have many other varied & partly contradictory criteria for next week's ideal beer garden venue. Why not join us this week & debate with us where to go next week ?

Football

No indoor places with TV football.
Keep an eye open for roll up screens & projectors, easily missed till they come into use).

Even outdoors in beer gardens it's horrible when football is amplified shouting & flickering on multiple screens, & there's no corner of the beer garden where one can avoid it.

The maximum risk is of football is when the big local teams are playing, so here's the schedules

• FC Bayern Muenchen/ Munich in English & German
• TSV 1860 Muenchen ... 2011-2012

So we try to go at times & to places where we wont be competing with football fans for space. So real football fans need not be annoyed, we're doing our best to leave you seats free

Remember 2 halves of 45 mins, + guess a break of 20/30 mins + injury time plus commentator will keep burbling after end of game, & or beer garden staff might not turn off big screens for a while, so allow maybe 2 hours 15 mins after start till we might hope screens might be turned off.

Indoors

• Places (not restaurants) that will reserve us 20 seats by phone not email, flexible if more / less turn up, & don't require more than 1/3 to eat.
• Places with chairs better than benches, hard to circulate with benches).
• Bavarian places aren't as popular as other places with our international, so not so often used (A dichotomy, as Bavarian beer halls have more chairs, less tight, & can take larger groups easier).
• Irish pubs: popular for a change, but often burdened with TV sport, & some not big enough.
• No places where smoke drifts in from nearby.
• Not round the corner from where you live ! Not if you don't often join us, but more likely accepted if you travel all over town with us most weeks.
• Not way outside the Mittlerer ring on your far edge of town.
• Not speciality places like just fish restaurants, vegetarian, bio (Hmm! what's BIO in real English, been here too long !), or classy/ trendy expensive poser (schickey}.
• We don't want live TV. Here's some links to figure out what tedious sport TV might be a nuisance.
  • Kilian
  • Molly's

Contacting Organisers

• If you must phone organisers, please use home numbers at reasonable hours, a short call to a work number in marginal weather is usually OK.
• Not all organisers always attend, some not often, some may work or partly live [way] out of town, but sufficient to cover for more regular organisers away on holiday, working, ill, etc.
• Organisers have an internal mail list bg-org@, for organising venues etc.
  • Everyone receiving bg-announce@ is entitled to write suggestions to bg-org@.
  • If you have a venue suggestion, please do not mail it just to the organiser you know best or were talking to about it, please instead mail the Organisers list of bg-org@ so that all organisers see it. It saves delay, & save the organiser work forwarding it to other organisers etc.

Helping Organisers, Nominating An Organiser, Becoming An Organiser, Retiring Organisers

• Recruitment posting:

  Subject: Beer Garden Organisers - occasional reserve helpers
  
  We need a few known faces who could occasionally step in as reserves
  when occasionally all regular organisers are unavailable.  So we could ,
  after checking with you for that week, announce "Look for __Your_Name__
  at 20:00 at ____ Pub, table[s] reserved in name of Berklix"
  
  You don't need to, but could if you want also:
      - Be on web page of organisers.
      - Be on organisers mail list,
      - Help choose venue (when we forget to choose the week before)
      - Phone to reserve table space 
      - Announce venue to mail list,
  
  Regular organisers can do all the above by remote mail & phone, so
  you don't need to do any of that, we just need a few more people
  who might occasionally be able to be there some week, if none of the regular
  organisers can make it on time.  Can you help us ? or suggest someone ?
  

• Extra Occasional or Regular Organisers Welcome

  • If you'd like to help or recommend someone to help us occasionally, - please tell the organisers.
  • Occasionally we use a one off guest spot organiser - tell us if you fancy organising a one off event.
  • We have a Reserve Organisers list that people can volunteer to join, for those interested in working as an organiser on occasion.
  • We've had up to 9 or 10 organisers simultaneously on our organisers list before, currently 5, some more will go, some more will join. Please volunteer while you can.
  • You don't need to organise regularly, just sometimes/ occasionally, ramping up & down to more or less as mutually agreeable.

• Being Made An Organiser

  • We don't drop you in cold: We recruit people to the organisers list for a while, letting them read how we decide venues & organise, before we expect them to work, helping decide & organise events.

  Joining The Organisers List Is No Free Ride.

  • Being on organisers list just to get prior info, or more say where we go, without working, would be an abuse of privilege not appreciated.
  • It's not a way to get everyone to drink at your bars. (Organisers are anyway usually expected Not to nominate a place near where they live, unless special exceptions).
  • After being on the organisers list a while to learn the ropes, you are then expected to work !

  Retiring From Organisers List

  • Remaining on the organisers list is a privilege just for Working organisers.
  • When you no longer regularly work as an organiser, please resign.
  • Resignation helps us, it tells us
    • To stop hoping you'll get back to work later.
    • We need to recruit more organisers
    • It can avoid ex organisers being seen as failing to work.
  • Organisers should periodically review their own performance , & if they are not doing much enough work, & unlikely to in near-ish future, should resign
  • Organisers who resign (or are removed for lack of work) are welcome & encouraged to remain as Beer Gardeners, receiving announcements. Just no longer on working Organisers list.
  • Making odd comments occasionally does Not count as being a working organiser.
  • If not organising, rather than wait for other organisers to see you as an organiser failing to organise, it's better to resign or step down to Reserve Organiser status [then perhaps volunteer again later when not so busy].
  • Our Alumni list of retired organisers

  Some Requirements To Be An Organiser

  • Organisers work within a set of conventions/ rules derived from experience, & automatically sent to each new organiser when subscribed. Any organiser can fetch the latest copy as a reminder at any time, by emailing this as just Ascii Plain Text :
    To: majordomo@berklix.org
    
    intro bg-org
  • Organisers need to be self organised people others can rely on to Organise.
  • Organisers do what they commit to do, unless they warn other organisers in time that they have a problem & try to arrange substitution.
  • Organisers try to remember to initiate "Where shall we go next week ?" discussions, & try to resolve it through to a decision.
  • Organisers sometimes we have to change or decide venue later, eg weather changes or we made no decision last week. (Lots of criteria for venue selection.)
  • Organisers need to check each week that one of their colleagues will book, announce & attend venue on time.
  • Announce Venue: Some announcements are better than others. When you've read enough announcements, you know which were written by someone too lazy or busy, whose announcements will not encourage new beer gardeners to attend. A good organiser is by definition not too lazy, & if too busy, declares it, & gets a colleague to do the job properly.
  • Organisers act as hosts: They break off talking to a friend to introduce newcomers, or stir up / shuffle a less lively half bored sub group & Move people, encourage seat swapping, discourage people reverting to long conversations in German, & repel smokers etc.
  • The booking organiser reminds waiter at beginning of the evening each drinker will pays his own bill, tells people to write on their beer mats, to avoid end of evening unpaid beers, & Keeps an eye on customers who might forget to pay all they've had, accidentally or deliberately, .
  • Organisers occasionally have to consult other beer gardeners & organisers, then diplomatically if possible quietly tell some misfit, "Sorry, you don't fit the group, Good Bye !" ( Just occasionally the group Needs & wants organisers to identify a problem & & take responsibility to firmly deal with it (Of course everyone likes to avoid problems, but it's an organisers responsibility).
  • Organisers should encourage the others to recruit new members.
  • Organisers occasionally suggest more organiser candidates.
  • Organisers know how to set their mailer software to send just Ascii Plain Text, to post to lists, avoiding to send

    Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    

    The list server automatically rejects such junk because:
    • Combination of both HTML + Ascii text enabled by multipart/alternative is the favourite format spammers swamp the the list server with.
    • It would wastefully triple the bandwidth posting to several hundred mail list recipients.
    • It breaks list footers readers need to see (because if they're not seen we organisers & particularly this author lose more time answering trivial email list enquiries).
    • (Sending multipart/alternative can also advertises clueless-Ness / incompetence &/or regular waste of net bandwidth.)

Alumni - Ex Organisers

• Alumni Thanks to those who have helped organise us before, some of whom might again, inc.: Erik, Jim, Logan, Omar, Owen, Peter.

Copyright: Julian Stacey Munich 2006 - 2010

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