Putting up an idea, and running it

Anyone can put an idea up

You don’t need a date, a venue or a price, and you are not signing up to run it. “Ballet?” is a complete idea. Put it up from Got an idea? and see whether anyone else wants it.

Each family can have 3 ideas live at once, deliberately: it keeps the board readable, and it makes people spend their slots on things they mean. A slot frees up when one of yours gets its numbers or its window closes.

What you fill in

The kind of thing. Short notice (today or tomorrow, texts go straight out), a one-off (a trip, a workshop), or something over several weeks (a course with a start and finish).

Where it is, twice. The exact venue is member detail; the area (“Old East Village”) is shown to everyone, because that’s what tells a family whether it’s worth the drive.

Kid places needed and cost per kid. Put 0 for free. The threshold counts kids (a family bringing three counts as three), and it’s the honest number below which you wouldn’t run it, not a hope.

The windows do the work for you

From the moment it goes up: about 7 days for families to say they’d come, then about 7 for places to be paid. You never have to chase anyone; the deadlines are on the card and the board does the reminding.

Doesn’t reach its number? It drops off quietly and nobody has lost anything. That outcome is a feature: you found out for free.

Saying you’ll run it

Every idea has a second tap: “I’ll run it”. That’s the person who books the venue or instructor once commitments close, using the money the places raised, and who ticks off who came afterwards.

The tick-off matters more than it sounds: it’s how the board can honestly say “families who commit here actually turn up”. Nobody is ever named as a no-show; it only ever comes out as a number.

Questions and comments

Every event page has a Talk section, and anyone can ask a question there: “is this okay for a six-year-old?” is half of what it’s for. Who wrote a comment is member detail; everyone else sees the words under “A family”.

Whoever’s running the thing can tidy comments away if a thread stops being useful.

Taking something down

Your own ideas: any time, from the event page. If somebody has already paid for a place when a thing comes down, they get their money back, full stop. Anything that doesn’t belong on the board at all, tell an organiser and it’s handled.