These are some ideas for camp organizers.  It is based on my experience running the Nose Fish theme camp at Burning Man for seven years.  So, it is obviously just my opinion.

My goal as camp organizer is to execute the camp's plans and leave no trace. Through the former I hope to help everyone in my camp fulfill our collective dream of providing a service and some art to our community.  We love what we do together.  It is still up to each camp member to plan and execute their own Burning Man experience.  Their first duty to the camp is to be able to take good care of themselves so they can give from whatever excess time and energy they have.

In fact, I neither plan nor organize the camp myself.  My wife contributes directly and indirectly and I would not be able to operate the camp without her.  In fact, she has been with me every single year I accepted any responsibility for a theme camp.  Our contribution is considered together -- together we operate the camp.

Our camp has natural groups of 1, 2, 3 or more members.  We sometimes recently started calling them "pods."

I plan for 40% failure.  If I ask for help from five people, two won't show up, or won't be of much use.  If bring the capacity to do or affect something, such as heaters, cookers, coolers, sprayers, etc., I overestimate our need by 40%, or underestimate the effectiveness.

I plan transparently using Google Spreadsheets. Using different sheets in a workbook I list all of the things we will need to execute our shared infrastructure as well as my own Burning Man experience.

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