gnome wrote: Your offer to

January 27, 2012 at 12:42 pm #87593

Participant

gnome wrote:

Your offer to provide helpful, technical tuition is gratefully appreciated. However, as has been said before there have to be folk ready and prepared to learn these skills.

Agreed. I’ve no expectations around participation levels as each individual usually has their own area(s) of interest and ability. I believe there are a few who are willing to spend some time receiving some tips, perhaps even followed by some practice. If there were only 2 or maybe 3 who picked up some skills that will make the Party’s productions more widely accessible, it’s a good start.

gnome wrote:

On separate but related issues we have to acknowledge there is a serious paucity of members with the necessary technical know-how that’s absolutely indispensable to the running of an organisation such as ours in the 21st century. We really cannot expect the same few handful of individuals to constantly come up with the goodies. Whether it’s the production of the Socialist Standard, the running and maintenance of the website, using the film and sound facilities at HO, updating the slide presentation on the shop front TV monitor or simply making full use of the internet with all its potential diversity we find ourselves seriously lacking when it comes to finding new people to take over the reins.

Ah, a familiar experience! Something that seems to be a challenge in most, if not all, organizations which require volunteers. Can’t help but wonder if the root cause of the volunteer shortage is us (working class) spending so much of our day working to accumulate wealth solely to benefit the parasitic elite. BTW, here is another style of information/educational video. This is also a very realistic type of production we could do. In the words of the guy who shot the video:”I made this clip just for fun trying my hands on yet another stop-motion video technique. Put in 5 hrs of creativity. Shoot, edit and cut on my iPod.”View the video here.