Swap Board

Hi Paul,

I'm not sure if you caught my facebook message, however a suggestion I have is Monthly threads for what you have on offer or are searching for. For example March early's for late's, nightstops/trips, short duties for long, long duties for short etc this way people can look for what they would like rather than sifting through tens of posts for each day.

Cheers,
Callum

Lates for earlies please! Or failing that if anyone wants a Linate nightstop for anything finishing a bit earlier!

TT or email me.

Alex 861006

Hi, all.

As mentioned in the base newsletter, there are a couple of things still under review. We'll experiment to see whether a separate sticky list for the LGW nightstops (MAD/INV/?) proves useful. I've made the LIS one sticky as well, but I don't know if out-of-base trips are regular enough to make it worthwhile.

The option is there to send emails; I've had one message following one of the two emails I've received so far saying that the person thought it was helpful. To participate, it makes sense to sign up to one of the member groups (see here). At the moment, only 13 people have, and several people have said that they would be very happy to revert to this kind of email notification more often. If you send messages by email, please bear in mind that the email will come from the board, rather than you - so including your name in it would be helpful.

Another thing under review is having individual topics for every swap request. Your thoughts on this are welcome. At the moment, I'm still aiming to put all swaps for each rank under one topic per day (though if people want to add details of nightstops in the separate list, then that's fine), and if that's not how you listed your topic, I may have moved it. This doesn't make it any less visible in the list, but does mean that it is accessible through the calendar.

Having just got back from being away for a few days, I've sat down with my roster, and compared the days I want to swap with what's on offer through the calendar (about three standbys, a couple of nightstops) - which is how I envisaged using it. I know that other people approach it differently, and it's quite possible that I'm the weird one. If there is a way of making this work that would be substantially better, please let me know, and I'll see if we can make it work.

Paul

I'm attaching (I hope!) screen shots from phone of the relevant menu entries. They are from the "full" rather than "mobile" website, on my phone.