Phil M0OFXJun 7, 2024

The thing I would most like to understand about #emfcamp is how the organisers and attendees have built such a good culture. I've volunteered for events half the size where the culture boils down to "nobody cares about anyone but themselves", and EMF is a breath of fresh air.

I'd love to understand it so it could hopefully be distilled into a guidebook and duplicated elsewhere.

Just more events where people feel safe to be themselves.

Edit: I don't mean just vol' culture, attendee culture too

Show threadMexJun 7, 2024
@philpem A big one is how little you need to volunteer to be apreciated. Early access to tickets and a free meal for a three hour shift. Why would you not?
Show threadPhil M0OFXJun 7, 2024
@Mexicals Absolutely, and I've never run into another event where speakers are also considered volunteers. I learned that *completely by surprise* this year.
But it's the attendee culture too... and maybe that's the team culture trickling down from the top.
Someone said "I can't think of another festival where I'd feel safe leaving my laptop in my tent" and that just seems to encompass it.
Show threadMexJun 7, 2024
@philpem Last time I got distracted unpacking my car and left the door wide open with my laptop on the seat for a least an hour. No issues at all, was mostly supprised someone didn't close the door for me.
Show threadPhil M0OFX
@Mexicals I was sat on the ground with a pile of tent parts and rapidly receding sunlight on the Thursday, and found myself with one person offering help ("I've put these together before!) and another offering a floodlight. I can't imagine that happening at any other event.
Jun 7, 2024 at 10:32amWeb
Show threadTerry IpJun 7, 2024
@philpem @Mexicals me and a friend had our head torches on muddling our way through helping someone put their tent up (which none of us, including the tent owner, had ever set up before and no instructions available) in the dark on the Thursday in accessible camping. We had a fun puzzle to solve, they got a tent to sleep in that night. Everybody wins.
Show threadPhil M0OFXJun 7, 2024
@terryip @Mexicals I almost asked if it was me, until I realised you said accessible camping and I was up at ECHQ!
I may never forgive the friend who loaned me the tent for tearing the instruction sheet out of the tent bag...