How to start being Set Shop Master

Add yourself to the Set Shop Google Drive folder. Add yourself to the Set Shop Google Drive folder. Add yourself to the Set Shop Google Drive folder. Add yourself to the Set Shop Google Drive folder. Add yourself to the Set Shop Google Drive folder. 

Did you add yourself to the Set Shop Google Drive folder? No? Go add yourself to the Set Shop Google Drive folder. Once you've added yourself, read the "READ ME!" document and familiarize yourself with the folder's contents. You'll know you're familiar enough when you can answer questions like these:

1. Who are the current/most recent Set Shop managers and Technical Directors for the Musical Theatre Guild and the Gilbert & Sullivan Players? Do they know who you are? (The answer to the last one should be "yes.")
2. What times during the week should the Shakespeare Ensemble have builds?
3. How is the Ensemble's stuff labeled in the set shop? How is shared stuff labeled?
4. How and when should you get a wood dumpster?

If you had trouble with question 1, look more closely at the contact information sheet. If you had trouble with question 2, check out the build calendar and the set shop rules. If you had trouble with question 3 or 4, look more closely at the set shop rules. As of April 2018 the set shop rules are posted on very large sheets of paper in the set shop, but the ones in the Google Drive should be the most up-to-date.

Tasks to do during the term

Here are some tasks you need to do during the term.

1. Immediately update the mailing list setshop-management@mit.edu to include yourself. setshop-management@mit.edu contains the current set shop managers and current (or upcoming) technical directors - basically, the people who have the biggest stake in what happens in the Set Shop during the current term.
2. At the beginning of the term, email the Ensemble an advertisement about the Set Shop Google Drive folder and encourage them to add themselves. Add interested people to setshop@mit.edu as well.
3. When the term show gets one or more Technical Directors, add them to setshop-management@mit.edu as well. Introduce them to the set shop Google Drive if they don't know about it, and especially introduce them to the other groups' TDs and set shop managers.
4. When the term show gets carpenters, put the sets mailing list (probably [showname]-sets@mit.edu) onto setshop@mit.edu. This is important because people make safety announcements to that mailing list. After the show, take the sets mailing list off of setshop@mit.edu but encourage everyone on it to get personally added to the Google Drive and the mailing list.
5. After put in and strike, double check that the Ensemble cleaned up according the rules agreed upon in the set shop folder.