09/03/09 - Meetings After Pride

The 2009 San Francisco Pride celebration happened in June although the community activities for the celebration are still quite active. After meeting with Brendan Behan the Deputy Director of San Francisco Pride I had learned that there would be a pretty big turn over with staffing in the coming months. He suggested that this would be a great opportunity for me to be doing research there as new people would be coming in for training anyway.

We talked about some of the upcoming projects tat I could possibly learn from and give some suggestions on how to improve them. The check granting ceremony was going to happen which I have been involved in with one of the new Event Coordinators Imani.

I spent the rest of the afternoon sitting with Imani discussing what the Check Granting Ceremony was and what role I would play. She gave me a breakdown of what was planned and how she planned on reaching out to volunteers for the event. We also went through a rough agenda. We took notes on what kinds of documents needed to be created and how they traditionally distributed them. We looked at every position and how they were to be filled. My role for this event will be to be Imani's assistant and make sure everything was running if she ever needed to attend to anything else.

After our discussion, I had suggested that she might use Google Docs to help with collaboration instead of sending e-mail and or having multiple Word Docs. She had not heard of Google Docs before. I took her through a quick tutorial of the application. Shw was still pretty weary of the tool but we are planning to try and use it for this event next week for the script that we will be collaborating on for the emcees. Next week I will not be going to the LGBT Center but instead will be collaborating online using Google Docs and talking on the phone. Let's see what happens.