It wasn't easy… This WWW Guide had some growing pains and at times seemed it was Guy goes to the psychiatrist... He says never going to happen. Somehow the May ’13 “Doc, my wife made me come here. extraordinary do-acracy of this community Playa del Fuego She thinks I’m crazy just because got it done. Hooray for people doing stuff! I like pancakes.” The shrink says “That’s The new part of the website which not so crazy... why, I like pancakes supports this guide wasn't finished as swiftly as hoped and the printer needed myself!” The guy says, “You DO? You more time to print it. That meant should come over to my house! I’ve got participants, especially the extra-organized- THOUSANDS of them!” doing-amazing-spectacular-thing-type of participant had approximately 15 minutes Q: Why did Cinderella get kicked off the to register their camp and enter their event. There was less time to slap this paper softball team? A: Because she ran away thing together, too. But it all got done. from the ball! In the fall it will be easier. There will be much more time for people to enter their A MAGICIAN WAS DRIVING DOWN info. The new log-in and pages won't be so THE ROAD – THEN HE TURNED INTO A new. Stuff will get tweaked, and there'll be DRIVE WAY better planning. Things generally will be less confusing and not rushed. This community is an engine that runs on goodwill The website and this guide aren't created WHAT WHERE miraculously. No map, lanyard, guide, sign, button, parking or camp boundary at this WHEN GUIDE event began life as a lump of clay. They each require a team of weirdos who have specialized skills and complicated lives to happen. Literally hundreds of people work together to transform Fire Base Lloyd Question: Why did the hipster twice a year and they contribute in almost burn his mouth? a hundred different ways. Answer: He ate the pizza There are many volunteers that need before it was cool. your help to do their job. Please help them by honoring their deadlines or what Q: Why couldn’t the baker make his may seem like a silly, tiny, petty request. cake any taller? A: He used too much Trust them - they know what they need. They volunteer so they know they are shortening. awesome. Make it easier for them to do their volunteer tasks and you become the Two people go into a diner, they sit down awesome one. at the counter, order two sodas, and then As sweet as it is to flatter someone, there take sandwiches out of their packs and are some volunteers who'd rather get the WHAT WHERE start eating them. The owner sees them help they need from you than flowery and says, “Hey, you can’t eat your own words. So help them out, give them what they need when they ask for it THEN WHEN GUIDE sandwiches in here!” The two customers whipser sweet nothings to them. Deadlines stop eating, look at each other, and swap aren't sexy, but respect is. sandwiches. INDEX/STAFF/WHAT IS PDF? GÜD: GLOSSARY Grand Unified Document v3.11, WHAT IS be reminded this experiment in collabora- Volunteer Central - AKA “Participation edited for length .............................. 2-13 PLAYA DEL FUEGO? tive community is not complete anarchy. Station”; a large temporary shelter located Generally, if something is not covered in the next to the red stage. It has volunteer sched- Basics............................................ 2-3 Playa del Fuego is the Mid-Atlantic Regional Burning Man Event. Events are held every GÜD, and it is legal in the larger world, it is ules and sign-ups, lost and found, ranger HQ Community Standards ..................... 4-6 spring and fall, on Memorial Day and allowed at the event. and radios, copies of the WWW Guide, and Columbus Day weekends. a few shady seats. Good place to go with a Ten Principles ................................. 4-5 Community Process — question. how the GÜD evolves Rules ................................................ 6 Playa del Fuego is an experiment in collab- orative community featuring art and music These policies were created by the Planning Gate - The Gate are the portals through Sound Policy .................................. 7-9 created by those who join us to participate. Committee or the Board of Directors, which which you enter the event. The event has Attendees are known as participants. There are all volunteer positions. Either a partici- 2 gates, front and back. One gate turns Public Health & Safety .................. 9-10 are no spectators at Playa del Fuego; every- pant submits a proposal to the Planning tickets and valid IDs into official wristbands Event/Site Guide ........................ 10-11 one collaborates in some way to create the Committee and the PC approves it, or not, during specific hours posted elsewhere. The event. Inspired by the Burning Man festival, or the BOD makes a decision about some- back gate is next to the main parking lot Amenities ................................... 11-12 it is a place for radical self-expression and thing because there is compelling safety/ and features the Greeters. Always show your Planning, Participation & an experiment in temporary community liability or future-of-the-event-issue at stake. wristband to the nice people working the Organization ............................... 12-13 building. Once something becomes an official event gate when you enter, leave, or bring them a policy/procedure/ rule via the BOD or PC, cold beverage/tasty snack. It is a place of acceptance, inclusivity, and Art ................................................ 13-15 it goes into the GÜD which is compiled by respect. It is organized entirely by volun- PC - The Planning Committee makes the humble scribes. The best and easiest way Ongoing Events ............................. 15-17 teers. Art and entertainment is created nuts and bolts choices that run the event. to reach the PC, is via the PONY. The Planning Committee is comprised of Friday Events ................................. 18-22 solely by participants. There are no conces- sion stands. No cash transactions (except literally anyone and everyone who calls the Saturday Events ............................. 22-27 ice sales) are permitted at Playa del Fuego GLOSSARY Planning Meeting conference call or attends PDF - Playa del Fuego in person. You may attend as many or as Sunday Events ............................... 27-30 - even bartering is discouraged. few meetings as you like, however, your vote MOOP - matter out of place, anything that is This is a sincere experiment in creating a only counts for meetings you actually are Theme Camps................................ 30-33 not indigenous the natural environment you gift economy. If you need something, ask for a part of. Read more about the PC at the are in, for example: litter, cigarette butts, Maps ........................................... 34-35 it. If you have it, gift it! There are no garbage PONY. cans: everyone is responsible for packing glitter PDF, Inc.- a Maryland not-for-profit corpora- out their garbage or throwing it into one of Rangers - helpful people who rove about in tion recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3. All content subject to change. Content submit- the handy dumpsters. Playa del Fuego is a khaki with radios. They are neither cops, ted before posted deadlines may be edited blank canvas: expect nothing...bring every- your mom, nor required to wear utilikilts. PONY - PONY stands for Planning and for length or clarity, or may be left alone for thing. Organization Need You. It is the official VNVMC - Viet Nam Veterans Motorcycle the sake of Radical Self-Expression. Content online planning and discussion forum for Event Location Club, our hosts and landlords who refer to submitted to the WWW or Theme Camp coor- Playa del Fuego. this place as FIRE BASE LLOYD. Be respect- dinator after posted deadlines may not be VNVMC, Vietnam Veterans ful of them. BOD - Board of Directors. A dozen or so included. We’re all volunteers. Apologies for Motorcycle Club of Delaware unpaid volunteers in search of a hot tub 474 Fleming Landing Road Coordinator - A super-volunteer who doesn’t spelling or other errors. The WWW is not a in which to sit and think. They also handle Townsend, DE 19734 just work a shift, they run an entire depart- newspaper; being printed here does not make all the boring legal parts of the event like ment like DPW, PARKING, THEME CAMPS, it true and it should not be used as the final Nearby Hospital taxes, insurance, liability, and adhering to or GATE. authority of anything. Christiana Hospital our mission. 4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road Burn - slang for a Burning Man-inspired Comp Tickets -There are no comp tickets at Newark, DE 19718, 302-733-1000 event like ours. Burns are not music festi- PDF. Not even for volunteers, artists, DJs, WWW STAFF vals. A few differences being: at burns there the Planning Committee, or the Board. Editor in Cheif ........... The Ranger Fumbles Community Expectations are no spectators, burns follow The 10 prin- Playa del Fuego believes its participants ciples, and the pretty girls at burns aren’t Reserve Tickets - These are used to ensure Layout .................................. Miss Fidget want to be good citizens. Getting to PDF can dancing ankle deep in a pile of beer bottles that people essential to the smooth opera- Print Wrangler ...................Ranger Buckita be a lot of hard work. We think people genu- and cups. “Have a nice burn.” tion of the event. Everyone approved for a inely care about the community they work reserve ticket must still pay for it. Art Grant 10 Principles - Burning Man’s version of the so hard to contribute to. This document recipients also receive reserve tickets as 10 Commandments, wherein you are permit- contains information participants need to art is central to our mission and artists Question: How do you keep a burner ted to covet your neighbor’s wife but not to sustain this sincere experiment.