Okay, let’s work down this list, item by item on things we have more control over!
Kitchen Problems: Too much time to serve too many people, too much time for food prep, chow lines too long, poor announcing system
Solution: More kitchen staff, two kitchens for early prep, announcing system, and different serving methods. One chef and one sous chef for each meal service with two volunteers. Spread out time for prep by operating two kitchens, giving one team time for cleanup, and the other time for prep. Next, we incorporate our food service with our camp counselor structure(see below) and serve our meals family style, where ‘camps’ on the campground get their food all at once. Finally, we incorporate meal announcements into a dinnerbell and radio announcement, telling people to return to their camps, and an announcement on our shortwave radio system.
Raging Dogs: Ugh
Solution: Beyond the parks rules on dogs, we introduce our own with a zero-tolerance policy. No one dog is to be left unattended for any reason or under any circumstance, including showers and bathrooms. Each animal a person owns must have it’s own crate for holding at night, and for every dog that comes, the owner must list one emergency handler per dog, should the owner have to leave his/her dogs behind. If you cannot provide a crate and an emergency handler for each dog, your dogs need to stay at home. In the event of unattended animals, staff will try to contact the pet owners or handlers for 30 minutes. If the pet owners or handlers are unreachable, animal control will be contacted. Every violation will result in ejection from event grounds and a two year probation on said person’s privilege to bring their animals to Campfire Tails.
Fursuiting Lounge: Nowhere for suiters to go headless, do suit repairs and have an emergency cooldown.
Solution: Encourage attendees to form a fursuit lounge Happening and take donations of materials to put together a dedicated fursuiting tent with cooling fans, seating for repairs and privacy.
Visibility: Can’t see shit at night. We had tealights and mason jars, but at the last minute the ranger station said ‘hell no’ and left us in the dark.
Solution: Solar-charged strings of LEDs around specific landmarks, corners and obstacles. Relocate Floodlights around food prep areas and commons.
Handwash Stations: No soap! Not enough water jugs! No paper towels!
Solution: Put up a sign explaining that the water jug contains foodsafe hand sanitizer. 
More trashcans: Not enough trashcans
Solution: Moar trashcans :3
Lost and Found: Where I found lost?
Solution: Addendum to conbook: If you find something that doesn’t belong or lost something, come to con ops.
Issues with Public Safety, First Aid, Announcement, Info, Availability of staff etc: Consolidation?
Solution: Camp Counselors. Sites B and C have four close but distinctly seperate locations for tent building. Each cluster will form a ‘concourse’ that we’ll assign a counselor. A counselor is someone who eats with, sleeps with, plays with and feeds your respective campsite you’re assigned to. They take your dietary preferences into consideration when giving orders to the kitchen, provide first aid when needed, lead group hikes and swimming outings, coordinate activities and establish a buddy
system for Happenings, provides info about activities and policies, and ensures the safety and well-being of their respective campsite. Meals are given to counselors to serve to their tribe family style. We hope to have one counselor per tribe, and each campsite no larger than 20 people each. (with expansion into Site B) for additional campsite.
More tents: Event space is limited what is this I don’t even
Solution: Hire Clever Fox Construction to build us 4 30x30 pavilions in a row for an additional 3600 square feet of event space.
Communication: Who/What/Where/When
Solution: Two solutions to work in tandem. Throughout the campground in each ‘tribe’ and in the Sandbox we’ll have an information kiosk including an expanded schedule of events, staff announcements and a space for attendees to leave their own mark. For general ‘on the fly’ announcements, wiring a campwide PA system isn’t financially solvent. A solution would be to
bring a shortwave radio and operate a short range(quarter mile or less) radio station broadcasting music campwide with live/critical announcements able to be broadcast. We’ll provide one or two battery-powered radios to each campsite counselor, but will highly encourage campers to bring their own personal radios with them.
Coffee: coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee
Solution:… Tea? <_< OKAY FINE COFFEE. We’ll keep our eyes open for banquet coffeemakers at used restaurant suppliers for on-demand coffee and hot water. XD
Volunteers: Volunteer organizing went pear-shaped and nobody was happy. Oops. <_<
Solution: A volunteer organizer! We have one now <3
Lack of naturey stuff: Survival lessons, stargazing, night hikes, hikes in general, etc.
Solution: Events are attendee-driven! Organize something, ya bums! <3
Outhouse Horror: Oh god the smell!
Solution: A 50/50 mixture of powdered lime and campfire ash added by general land cleanup each day, paired with battery-powered oust air sanitizers should eliminate most, if not all smells next year.
No Dana: Only Zuul
Solution: Cross the Streams
Dust: Dust
Solution: Put down tarps on the floors in Happenings Tents in the Sandbox
Shower Bags: empty/cold often
Solution: Post a list of instructions for the use of the bags. Given an hour in the sun they can get quite warm from personal experience! When someone uses a bag to shower, they need to refill it to get it ready for the next person to shower. If someone is too short/not strong enough to hang a bag, our gopher can be made available to assist!
Cellphone charging station: How I charged phone?
Solution: Forthcoming, but added to the list of things to address for next year!
Conbook signage Space: Not enough!
Solution: More…signage space! XD
Conbooks/schwag/Check-in: Got out to the attendees late
Solution: Sorry! We’ll be ready a lot sooner! I promise!
Fursuit events: None
Solution: If you want a fursuit event, try and make a Happening for it next year!
General Timeliness and Information conveyance: Oops
Solution: Time, experience and improved communications! We’ll get it right!
Granted, many of these roles and solutions would need some hammering out, especially in terms of staff backup/redundancy, but thus far, what do you guys think?
Personally, I don’t think it’s such a big expectation to bring your own time-keeping device that works without a source of electricity for more than 24 hours. ^.^