General agreement; and wrt "I've got a tendency toward "Write up how things go" documentation", I suspect I'm a similar sort of person, so it's useful to hear how it's often less useful in practice.
(One thing I've done in my current LGBT group, where I'm on the committee, is write job descriptions as job GOALS rather than task lists. In other words, "You do the social media - we need our events advertised in advance, and messages regularly replied to. How you do that is your own shout." Rather than have it as a set of instructions, or part of a bigger job ("this person does social media, runs Pride, and does graphic design".) - both of which are rigid)
I think you're right: so maybe amend this point to "understand how your coven scales", and have a different proposal set for small/medium/large. It would be silly to do these things for, say, covering wine & cakes; but necessary for sufficiently large amounts of money. One of my magic books recommend Coveners pay subs towards the cost of daytrips and funding a group library; that's out of the realm of "our mates take it in turns to bring snacks and buy beers".
I stand by the original point that the real danger zone is big orgs trying/pretending to behave like small ones; and your counterpoint similarly spots the problem of a small org behaving like a big one. So perhaps my v2 also needs guidance on identifying which you are (and for Coveners, to spot discrepancies)
The other thing about documentation is a comfort blanket/crutch for me. I think it would help me think through problems in advance; remind me to approach it as a professional role, not a personal one, and put in a bit of "distance"; provide me with reassurance. But officialdom can also be used as a tool for ill - and is devastating when so used - so perhaps it's less of a boon than I expect.
Re: Size of group implications
(One thing I've done in my current LGBT group, where I'm on the committee, is write job descriptions as job GOALS rather than task lists. In other words, "You do the social media - we need our events advertised in advance, and messages regularly replied to. How you do that is your own shout." Rather than have it as a set of instructions, or part of a bigger job ("this person does social media, runs Pride, and does graphic design".) - both of which are rigid)
I think you're right: so maybe amend this point to "understand how your coven scales", and have a different proposal set for small/medium/large. It would be silly to do these things for, say, covering wine & cakes; but necessary for sufficiently large amounts of money. One of my magic books recommend Coveners pay subs towards the cost of daytrips and funding a group library; that's out of the realm of "our mates take it in turns to bring snacks and buy beers".
I stand by the original point that the real danger zone is big orgs trying/pretending to behave like small ones; and your counterpoint similarly spots the problem of a small org behaving like a big one. So perhaps my v2 also needs guidance on identifying which you are (and for Coveners, to spot discrepancies)
The other thing about documentation is a comfort blanket/crutch for me. I think it would help me think through problems in advance; remind me to approach it as a professional role, not a personal one, and put in a bit of "distance"; provide me with reassurance. But officialdom can also be used as a tool for ill - and is devastating when so used - so perhaps it's less of a boon than I expect.